Category: Wasting your time

The recent uptick in troll traffic here and at Orac’s place got me thinking. Many of the trolls have been making unsophisticated attacks on the truth without actually stating a hypothesis. And that got me thinking even more. If they could only state their questions properly, there would be some useful fodder for discussion. There…

OK, here’s the deal. Seed Media Group, the folks who run this joint, want to give you free stuff. They are taking a reader survey and to encourage you to participate, they are giving away a bunch of cool Apple stuff. The good news is, you guys have been a bunch of losers and haven’t…

This is meetup weekend for the sciencebloggers and remember, we’re planning to hang out with readers at 2:00 pm on Saturday, August 9, at Social (795 8th Ave). Drop by, say hello, and meet the scibs!

Is Obama the Antichrist? No, according to Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind series, who told the Journal that: “The antichrist isn’t going to be an American, so it can’t possibly be Obama. The Bible makes it clear he will be from an obscure place, like Romania,” the 82-year-old author said. Phew! Maybe it’s…

Any native New Yorkers out there that read denialism blog? If so, I’ll be in town for the Sb meetup in NYC on August 9th. If anyone would like to meet me or the other sciencebloggers, let us know. And if you have a good idea where a bunch of people could find an air-conditioned…

GrrlScientist inspired me to upload some of my Up North pics. Red pine groves on granite outcrops are a characteristic feature of Algonquin Park. Red Pines have reddish bark which flakes off in thin scales. Their needles come in groups of two.

I wonder whether the Heller decision is broad enough to give me an individual right to own a poop gun, AKA, the “Brown Note.”

Mark, I find your post on DC v. Heller lacking in enthusiasm. It is not often that our Supreme Court finds a new constitutional right (except when big business wants more rights). We should celebrate this, thing–the Second Amendment. It must be important, right, since it becomes before the Third and Fourth! We should exercise…

You’ve probably heard that Wesley Snipes received the maximum sentence for not paying his taxes–3 years based on 3 misdemeanor violations. His “advisors,” tax fraud denialists with crackpot legal theories received 10 for conspiring to defraud the government of tax revenue: Snipes’ co-defendants in the case,Lake County anti-tax guru Eddie Ray Kahn, 64, and tax…