Slow Learners (Slow Cooked To Perfection,...)

Can anybody give me a good reason how this headline can exist - 21 people treated for burns after firewalk at Tony Robbins appearance - while this award-winning television program is on the air?

Or, asked another way, how have so many people not gotten the memo on Tony Robbins and firewalking yet? Then again, I guess we ARE talking about NewAgers:

Twenty of them couldn't even immediately figure out fire-is-hot, after the first rube got burned.

Poor babies.

"It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack - not rationality."

- Black Mamba, Kill Bill, Vol. 1

A Bunch Of Broke NewAgers: Hoisted On Their Own Retard (By Public Enemy Number Dumb)

"Attendees paid to listen to a former preacher’s son and a junior college dropout who has fashioned a successful business on the promise that he can help people build financial wealth as well as strengthen their spiritual and physical well-being.

Throw in dollops of quantum physics, Shamanism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, tantric sex and lessons drawn from his personal experiences and the movies (even “Star Wars”), and the audience was enthralled. And though he’s not in the ranks of Anthony Robbins and Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil), his appearances on “Oprah” and “Larry King Live,” and in “The Secret,” Rhonda Byrnes’s documentary and book that have become a New Age phenomenon, have won him a following. His own book, “Harmonic Wealth,” appeared on the New York Times best-seller list for two weeks last spring.

Mr. LaRosa, of Marketdata, said typical self-improvement customers are middle-aged women with an average household income of $88,000.

There were undoubtedly plenty of people who fit that profile in Jersey City. But there were also many who were feeling the pinch of the economy."

-- Ray Rivera, on what unemployed suckers on the east coast are paying $1,297 to hear "motivational speaker and self-help guru" James Arthur Ray peddle - that's the con man, looking much-too-obviously like a con man, below - in The New York Times.

The "Harmonic Convergence" was successful, right? Why not you? (Because it was a huge failure, that's why,...you stupid, stupid idiots.)

Tony Robbins' Musical Taste Will Burn Your Ears

I'm a huge U2 fan so everything from "Vertigo," "Beautiful Day," "The Saints Are Coming," "With Or Without You" – these are just standards when I'm working out. Alicia Keyes's "No One," Usher's new album, old Guns 'n' Roses like "Sweet Child of Mine," Nickelback's "Rock Star," the Best of Andrea Bocelli, and Jay-Z and Linkin Park's "Numb." My iPod is about as diverse as you can imagine.

- Tony Robbins, who the Christian Science Monitor refers to as a "leadership and performance guru" (remember: this is the super-tall bullshit artist with the fire-walking scam) on what he's listening to (like anyone should actually care - except to prove he doesn't know dick).

I'm sorry, but that is just an awful selection - and don't give me any of that "music is subjective" bullshit - Tony Robbins is a user, with a very-diverse playlist of extremely bad tunes. Guns 'N' Roses? Come on. Anyone that breathes the words "guns" and "roses" had better be exhaling them with "Mr." and "Brownstone" or they ain't got a right to live. Fuck, that shit hurt to read. I'd much rather listen to The Shaggs.

Anyway, to prove he's an asshole, here's a painless explanation of fire walking from the world's most super-nice skeptic, Michael Shermer:

Unintentionally Accurate NewAge Quote Of The Day: A Clinton Fund-Raiser To The NYT

"The Clintons, they don’t care who they hang out with,..."

-- A major fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton, quoted in the NYT.

Hanging out with cultish NewAge liars - that's not: