Words Of Wisdom (In A Foolish Existence)

Former MSNBC Host: Democrats Need to Beat 'Rural People, Their Craziness About the Cult'

My Mother Disowned Me Because of Her Religion

Cult Tied to 6 People Who Vanished From Berkeley Spread on TikTok

Arrests over secret tunnel at New York synagogue

#metoo movement ruined my sex life with my husband

Popcorn

Witch cult held disturbing rituals, tried to lock kid in microwave

"A woman's quest to become pregnant resulted in lead poisoning from an Ayurvedic treatment."

Veterinary homeopathy is worse than ineffective

Berkeley landlords throw a cocktail party to celebrate the return of evictions

World-renowned bodybuilder, dead at 34

There's LOTS "Rarely Mentioned" Today (That Should've Been Mentioned More)

"What's rarely mentioned about the Homebrew Computer Club is its messianic streak. Steve Wozniak may have been trying to build a cheap minicomputer, but almost everybody else was trying to change the world, not the least of them Steve Jobs. The California, Berkeley, contingent, in particular, was forever looking at ways to tear down the old order and bring about the New Age."

"The ultimate postmodern irony is...when technology and capitalism are triumphing worldwide, the Judeo-Christian legacy is threatened by New Age, which is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism."

"Researchers at Canada’s University of Waterloo presented their new research paper "On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullsh*t", which revealed that people who find statements like "rejuvenation is a constant, joy requires exploration" to be profound are less intelligent."

"Jobs’ death could have been prevented — he could have been saved. What went wrong? Steve, it turned out, had been treating his cancer with a special diet suggested by the alternative medicine promoter Dr. Dean Ornish,...Why did he do this? Well, bad information, without the tools or expertise to discriminate. Steve was exposed to such bad information, as are we all....We can't say for sure that Steve would still be alive and making lives better were it not for the alternative therapy, but the statistics suggest it very strongly."