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I am an expert on the UFO (yeah right) on a web site. I often get asked questions that have nothing to do with UFOs and everything to do with whatever psychic woo mumbo jumbo someone has latched onto. Today I got a very sad question posted to me by someone that sees spirits, in fire, rock...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/arts/television/21welc.html?hp&ex=1137906000&en=43df4035c8d21fca&ei=5094&partner=homepage Gist is this (see how nice I am about not just flinging a link like a dead kipper on the floor?) REality show. Bunch of couples vie for a free house in a republican...

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=1339951#post1339951 Here's my paper though. Perhaps you all could organize an interpretive dance piece to someone reading that paper out loud. That would be fun.

http://tinyurl.com/ao7n2 This has not been proven true in a court of law, but if true, the irony is indeed tragic.

From Russell's Ideas that have helped mankind. (1946) Does anyone else find it kind of sad that nearly 60 years after he wrote those words, the three specific points he mentions are still potential conflagration points for mankind? (By Persian oil I think he was in fact referring to the...

I have a question. I'm sure we have all seen those white crosses with plastic flowers along the roadside, where presumably someone died in an accident. No doubt they have meaning to someone, but I am curious about WHO it is that places these and what tradition it is. I have seen them in South...

This is sad: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004602664,00.html

Henry Kramer and James Sprenger were commissioned by Pope Innocent to write the Malleus Maleficarum, Lit. 'Hammer of Witches' and it became the text book to drive the horror of the Inquisition and other witch hunts. I was prompted to hunt it down and read it by Carl Sagan's reference in The...

Not really. :) I know many sceptics share my views about the afterlife, but I guess some must just think, 'so long, and thanks for the all the fish...' . So what would your funeral / wake song(s) be? Which songs could sum up your life? Me, I'd go for 'Down at the School-yard (You, Me and...

Some people are too stupid to have children. What a pity... utah chemotherapy issue

According to this article. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/16/1063625030951.html Not the best written article on this issue I have seen, but equating the economic glorification of the individual over the group can only go so far before the group suffers and the individual follows not...

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/137/metro/A_Christian_community_falters+.shtml I lost a very good friend to this cult. "John" was a pretty average guy, had a wife, two kids, a house, and was active in a mainstream church. He also played chess in our local chess club. Back in the 80s, this...