Clint Eastwood's "High Plains Drifter" Is Just A Ghost Story In Western Dress-Up

DON'T MENTION PROSTITUTION WHEN AN UGLY OUT-OF-SHAPE CONSERVATIVE UBER-RICH MEDIA BARON CAN "MARRY" FIVE TIMES:

  Rupert Murdoch marries beautiful bride Elena Zhukova in warm sunshine at his California vineyard

LOOK IT UP - MACHO DOESN'T MEAN UNFAIR:

  How Mexico, bastion of machismo, got a female president before the U.S.

WOMEN INITIATE 70% OF DIVORCES - THUS WORLD PAIN:

  The pain of loss is felt in much the same way as physical pain

PRO-TIP - TAKE ALL YOUR FAMILY PLANNING ADVICE FROM WHORES: 

Stormy Daniels urges Melania Trump to leave husband Donald now

HALF OF AMERICANS THINK RACHEL MADDOW IS A JOURNALIST:

  Half of Americans think Trump's guilty verdict was correct, should end campaign: POLL

THEY SAY SHE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR U.S. SOCIAL MAYHEM BUT THERE'S NO ADVERTISING IT OR NEWS REPORTS AND DOCUMENTARIES SHOWING HOW:

  Oprah Kicks Off Pride Month

LIBERALS REALLY LIKE BEING LIED TO:

  Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow Are Luring Liberals Back to cable TV 

    

 MLK'S "DREAM" HAS BEEN ACHIEVED: 

Justin Bieber Gave Odell Beckham Jr. Oral Sex At Diddy Party, Jaguar Wright & Tokyo Toni Allege

TRYING TO MAKE LOSING "AMERICAN IDOL" MATTER:

  David Archuleta on leaving the Mormon church, coming out and 'living a meaningful life'

GOD, GIVE ME STRENGTH, AFTER YOU MADE BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO ME:

  Kathie Lee Gifford turned to faith after her husband's affair: 'I was never the same'

REWARDING THE FAKEST OF FAKE RITUALS:

  Stunning image of man leaping through fire during Hindu ritual among the winners of National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition 

   

IT'S A GAME OF "CAT AND MOUSE" - YOU'RE THE MOUSE:

  Robert Irwin becomes latest target in scam that's fleeced $8 million from Aussies 

   

 REMEMBER WHEN THE INTERNET PROMISED TO MAKE US SMARTER THAN THIS?

  British-born Carlo Acutis - aka God's Influencer - died aged 15 in 2006 after a life of piety and online preaching... Now he is set to become the Patron Saint of the Internet

YOUR LIFE IS EASY WHEN A DERMATOLOGIST CAN FIX IT:

  Woman Shares Aftermath As Tattoo Goes Wrong—'Never Regretted Anything More'

OR THE BEST THING EVER:

Ozempic users are shedding pounds — and hair: ‘A real nightmare’

TRUMP JURORS MADE JOY BEHAR WET HERSELF:

  To pee or not to pee? That is a question for the bladder—and the brain

DONALD J. TRUMP - FATHER OF US ALL:

  Every blue eyed person on Earth is a descendant of one single person, scientists find

TRUST NO ONE:

  ‘Trust Jesus’ MAGA bus crashes on way to Trump rally

OH, COME ON, D:

  Trump Pretends He Never Called for Hillary to Be Locked Up

BILL CLINTON'S CULT LEADER KEN WILBER HAD A "THEORY OF EVERYTHING" THAT HILLARY ONCE SAID SHE WAS AFTER: 

A physicist dismantles Terrence Howard's nonsensical "theory of everything" 

   

 FUNNY THAT "SCIENCE" DIDN'T SAY THAT AT THE TIME - AND WHERE WAS NEAL DEGRASSE TYSON'S SORRY ASS?

  In the pandemic, we were told to keep 6 feet apart. There’s no science to support that.

IT'S JUST WATER BUT - OF COURSE - THAT'S NEVER THE ISSUE: 

Homeopathic dispensaries reel under shortage of dispensers

HUH - DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING:

  Judge dismisses 'pyramid scheme' lawsuit versus Herbalife, CEO 

     

 THIS WAS THE FIRST UNFUNNY EPISODE OF SNL'S "WEEKEND UPDATE" 

   

 YOU WERE AMAZING - THANKS, ED - AND "GOODNIGHT":

  Ed Mann, Frank Zappa's Longtime Percussionist, Dead at 70

It's Sunday: Give It A Rest

To say the Anti-Abortion Movement Won the Legal Battle, but It’s Losing the War is such a self-destructive way to frame this issue, since there never was anything but a legal battle to begin with. It's framed this way to make people angry, and - as usual - they take the bait every time. Roe V. Wade lost because it was bad law - NOT because anybody hated women or was banning abortion. To say otherwise is simply a lie.

Isn't it AMAZING how "We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For The Past 300 Years," but - once you mention black reparations - then, we're told, "we've" not been together to do anything? There's just an immediate disconnect from history - and each other.

Alan Moore has been donating all his Watchmen money to Black Lives Matter, so he must not read this blog, because TMR hasn't received a dime. Uncool, Alan Moore, uncool. Black Blogs Matter.

The Most Interesting Element of the Hunter Biden Indictment, besides the bank records, suspicious activity reports, 22 shell companies set up in the names of various family members, and an email from Hunter saying he was angry about sharing his income with his father? The most interesting element is how the Democrats are still saying they see no evidence of a crime. That is one observant party.

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner has been removed from Rock Hall leadership after controversial comments about blacks and women. He said we're not articulate. I could give him a well-worded reply.

Trump fumbles when asked if a man ‘can become a woman’ which - if you know the guy - should surprise no one. 

  

Principals Made and Shared Meme of a Student’s Exposed Breast

And Death by homeopathy is what got TMR into the subjects that animate the blog, today. 

It is NOT not recommended.

 

The Biggest Insult: Republicans Can't Beat These Guys

New Age spiritualism has co-opted some of the language of physics, including the language of quantum mechanics, in its quest to make ancient metaphysics sound like respectable science. The New Age preaches enhancing your vital energy, tapping into the subtle energy of the universe, or manipulating your biofield so that you can be happy, fulfilled, successful, and lovable, and so life can be meaningful, significant, and endless. The New Age promises you the power to heal the sick and create reality according to your will, as if you were a god.

Study: Democrats more likely to think astrology is scientific, less likely to know Earth revolves around the sun

Collapse A Bridge Under This Idiot Just To Make A Point

"We've already gone against what seems to be a law. So why not break other rules? Why not defy right down to the laws of physics?”

There Goes That Damned "Scientific Consensus" Again

“Is climate change pseudoscience? If I’m going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.”

- Ivar Giaever, Nobel prize winner for physics, who resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on September 13, 2011 in disgust over the group’s promotion of man-made global warming fears.

 

I "No" Things

I don't agree with William S. Burroughs on much, but I do when it comes to belief systems:

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. Suppose Newton had founded a Church of Newtonian Physics and refused to show his formula to anyone who doubted the tenets of Newtonian Physics? All organizations create organizational necessities. It is precisely organizational necessities that have prevented Scientology from obtaining the serious consideration merited by the importance of Mr. Hubbard’s discoveries. Scientologists are not prepared to accept intelligent and sometimes critical evaluation. They demand unquestioning acceptance."

THAT, my friends - in both word and deed - is how we ended up with a huge, and dangerous cult acting freely amongst us.

That, and those who were/are dumb enough to get "on the path" in the first place,...

 

Words That Scare Liberals: Can, May, Might,...

Cheap Trick

"Poor old Albert Einstein. He not only gets dragged in whenever religious apologists want a good scientist-quote about God – despite this fairly unambiguous statement: 'I do not believe in a personal God, and I have never denied this, but have expressed it clearly' – now he’s being used to support a laughable 'scientific' case for psychic powers.

The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, by Diane Hennacy Powell, cherry-picks a line from a personal letter to build its nonsensical argument. You might think that was a little unfair, since the letter was one of condolence to a friend’s widow. But even if you don’t, it’s still ridiculous.

The quote reads: 'Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past and present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.'

According to our review (full disclosure: I haven’t read the book. I can tell you it’s piffle without doing that, though), Ms Hennacy Powell uses this to suggest that Einstein’s theories imply the possibility of precognition, or seeing the future.

Now I admit it is possible that Einstein kept his thoughts on ESP to himself, only revealing them in an obscure letter a few months before he died. Maybe he also declared his love of ouija boards in some graffiti on a toilet wall, or wrote a pseudonymous horoscopes column for the National Enquirer. But it seems more likely that he was referring to his rather better-known general theory of relativity, which showed that time and space are relative to each other and gravity. Not that spoon-bending weirdos can predict the future through dreams."

-- Tom Chivers, whose byline states he's "regularly startled by the stupidity of intelligent people" - unlike TMR, which is regularly disappointed in stupid people's lack of intelligence - like Diane Hennacy Powell, the latest NewAger attempting scientific duplicity to sell her bullshit beliefs, in The Telegraph, U.K..

Carry On My Wayward Son

"It's like this: science requires a tolerance of failure. If your shiny, happy hypothesis fails to stand up to rigorous scrutiny, you drop it and move on. If instead of a true, disposable hypothesis, you have a fixed belief that will not change based on the data, you are delusional. Boosters of alternative medicine prefer the term 'maverick' to 'lunatic' but in the two are often the same.

It is nearly impossible to get someone to abandon a belief in alternative medicine, no matter how strong the evidence against it. Study after study has failed to validate homeopathy as anything other than bullshit, yet it's strongest supports hang on hoping, perhaps, that someone will find out that we were wrong about physics and chemistry all along (you know, regional changes in physical constants and all that). Not all alternative medicine boosters are cynical thieves. Some really do believe that they are doing science, when in fact they are deceiving themselves about the meaning of data. When this type of thinking occurs in medicine, rather than leading to a paper retraction, it leads to quackery and sometimes death."

-- PalMD, surprising even me with this straight talk - it's so rare - though, I guess, that's what should be expected from The White Coat Undergroud.

Why NOT BELIEVING Is So Important

"Let's get skeptical about skepticism. What has skepticism given us? Well, for one it's allowed us to understand basic principles of physics, which has allowed us to put a man on the moon. It's allowed us to understand the underlying principles of genetics, and do pre-natal screens for diseases like Down's Syndrome, it's given us vaccines to cure diseases like smallpox, and drug cocktails that are helping people with AIDS and a whole host of other great things. Furthermore, it's given us a framework to determine if some of the traditional remedies like homeopathy, magnet therapy, psychic communion, feng shui, numerology, and chiropracty actually work. It's also helped us analyze newer types of psuedoscience like perpetual motion and alien abduction to see whether these things are true. We can look at the statistics behind psychic surgery and determine whether it's effective. Same thing with reflexology and magnet therapy. How about the power of prayer? Yup, we can measure that too."

-- Edificial Intelligence

Find A Quiet Spot And Ponder You're An Ass

"Beliefs such as creationism or astrology aren't immune to science, they are merely wrong. Take the tale of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian yogi (and physics graduate) who taught transcendental meditation and won a global following after the Beatles joined his Academy of Meditation in India. Maharishi claimed that transcendental meditation gave practitioners access to the 'quantum field of cosmic consciousness'. This, he said, was identical to SU(5), the model physicists were then investigating in their search for a grand unified theory. Sadly for cosmic consciousness, real experiments later falsified SU(5)."

-- Amanda Gefter, joining us in laughing at all the meditators who - for fucking decades - have been spreading this goofy charlatan's nonsense (Hello, Paul McCartney!) unaware their own stupidity is one of the many Signs Of The Times.

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: