Herdwatching

This is what happens when you let the woo-woo folks run the show. “You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the “dignity” of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of [...]

It’s been a busy week. If it isn’t the Genderborg it’s the other paranoid conspiracy folks over in the 9/11 "Troof" movement. I am not sure why the groups don’t merge since the anti-porn folks and the troofers pretty much share a playbook*. Anyway, some folks from "We Are Change" (which is kind of like [...]

I am watching the show The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction on the History Channel and I am once again struck but how insanely desperate so many people are. Desperately grasping for “large” answers to “large” events Desperately wanting to feel they they know “the hidden reality” Desperately looking for reasons to feel important because [...]

Let’s step away from the radical feminists for a moment and look at zealotry in a different arena – technology. “schestowitz the GNU/Troll strikes again with his inimitable prose and fair and balanced view of things. Are you done flooding the Netscape portals and USENET with your ‘news’ laddie? That’s great, now we can appreciate [...]

Sometimes I think “The Apostate” is a blog that makes decent points. Other times I am reminded of just how blinded by their own hatred some people can be. A 15 year old girl who actually cares about her country makes a montage of soldier images and has decided to put her life on the [...]

 Every now and then on Slashdot you see something very amusing. And I don’t just mean the rabid pirates trying to convince themselves that it isn’t stealing. …but you seem committed to it as though it’s a rebuttal to some sort of intimation on my part (as though I suggested somehow that Stallman was against [...]