By The Quixotic Man, on November 30, 2009, at 7:03 am  This week our nation saw the 46th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy – one of our most beloved presidents. After Kennedy died, the conspiracies leaped out of the woodwork. From magic bullets to grassy knolls, the nation was obsessed with how this great man could have been taken down by a single guy with a gun.
Now, many of the theories have been quite well debunked. Why did JFK’s head move forwards instead of backwards? Because the spray from the exit wound had greater momentum than the impact of the bullet. How could one bullet do the amount of damage to as many people as it could without turning in midair? Because there was an incorrect assumption of the relative positions of the different members of JFK’s motorcade. But one question remained firmly embedded in everyone’s minds.
What about the aliens? … continue reading this entry.
By John Snyder, on October 19, 2009, at 7:03 am  A new epidemic is creeping across parts of the US. It primarily affects infants and children of higher socio-economic status, and it has the potential to cause horrible illness and death. It has already begun to cause outbreaks in scattered communities throughout the country. If it is not contained quickly, more carnage will result. The epidemic I am describing is not Swine Flu. It is not a newly mutated animal virus imported from some far-flung corner of the globe. It is the epidemic of parental vaccine fear, and it is a major threat to the safety of children everywhere. … continue reading this entry.
By Michael Rosch, on September 30, 2009, at 7:03 am  The anti-vaccination quacks at Age of Autism (AoA) decided that instead of addressing individual refutations from the bloggers coming out of the incredibly successful Scienceblogs, that they’d just launch one big ad hominem attack on the entire site. As always, don’t expect them to include any actual science in their rants. They don’t understand it and I’m sure they wish people would stop calling them out on it. So let’s get right into it, shall we. … continue reading this entry.
By The Quixotic Man, on September 10, 2009, at 7:03 am I’ve recently begun a new job in the financial district. It’s at some coffee shop that doesn’t pay me enough, and it’s a really long trip to and from my apartment, but you know, it’s a job, it’s a bad economy, I take what I can get. One of the nice things about the job though, is that it’s an area that I don’t normally get to. I live at the top of the Bronx, so Battery Park is not normally in my area, but now I get to go on down to the river, walk around in a really great area in the afternoon, it’s a nice part of a sort of crummy job.
Unlike a lot of other people, I had to work on Monday. The trains, in case you weren’t aware, were totally screwed for the entire day, but I’d made lunch plans with some of my best friends and I was excited for it. Anyway, after work, I go over to get my train. Some stupid pink tape has blocked off the Rector Street station on the 1, so I say, “Okay, it’s a nice day, I’ll walk up to Chambers”, and this little walk brought me straight over to Ground Zero.
The thing that still gets me upset about Ground Zero isn’t the tragic loss of life or the ludicrous and unnecessary wars that it launched. At this point, I’ve been able to accept that those events occurred and move forward. No, what really pisses me off is that eight years after the tragedy that befell thousands of people and our entire country on September 11, 2001, Ground Zero is still nothing but a concrete hole. It continues to be a scar upon our fair city, a festering wound that in many ways, the city has still not recovered from. But what gets me even more pissed off are the god damn 9/11 Truthers, and because tomorrow is the eighth anniversary of September 11th, they’re back in the news. … continue reading this entry.
By The Quixotic Man, on August 10, 2009, at 7:03 am In his 1637 paper, “Discourse on Method”, Réne Descartes wrote “Je pense donc je suis.” In 1644, he would translate that phrase into Latin for his famous Principles of Philosophy, writing it as “Cogito ergo sum.” “I am thinking, therefore I exist.” When I was in high school, I became a big fan of Descartes. I still hold that the cogito is one of the most brilliant things to come out of philosophy. Descartes comes to the conclusion that because your senses themselves can be fooled, your memory is fallible, anything that you experience could simply be happening inside your head. However, Descartes also comes to the realization that if you are thinking, there must be something which you are a part of that is existing. … continue reading this entry.
By AJ Mell, on August 5, 2009, at 7:00 am Last week, I happened upon the 2002 video clip of Buzz Aldrin punching a moon-landing conspiracy theorist in the face–a joyous artifact that had never before come to my attention. The punchee was filmmaker Bart Sibrel, who confronted Aldrin (then 72) and his stepdaughter outside a Beverly Hills hotel, screaming ”You’re the one who said you walked on the moon and you didn’t!” Aldrin warned him to back off, at which point Sibrel called him a “thief, a liar and a coward.” When Sibrel initiated physical contact (as attested to by several witnesses), Aldrin hauled off and clocked him one. … continue reading this entry.
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