Rantings of a New Yorker

Try watching this without crying.

The crazies were out in force at the annual UFO convention this year. The saddest part is that the media (even though it’s FOX) seems to think this is a newsworthy item that we should know about.

The Colony is a new documentary from Al Jazeera. The past decade has seen Chinese economic growth explode across the world and the Chinese economic miracle seems to reach into every imaginable area of manufacturing and natural resources. Filmmakers Brent Huffman and Xiaoli Zhou traveled to Senegal in West Africa to explore the onslaught of Chinese [...]

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome — when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

This guy says that this art is in a public law library and that it shouldn’t be allowed because of separation of church and state. However, if you peruse his website, he is on a crusade to keep “In God We Trust” on the US dollar. Classic hypocrisy. While I agree with him that the [...]

Every country has a few stupid people. America is a slightly bigger country than most, therefore, we have a few more stupid people than others. While the tea party wasn’t founded on racism, these asshats have certainly made it the most prominent part of their movement. Unfortunately, the tea party is now full of ignorant [...]