Hi! I'm a tech guy, skeptic, feminist, gamer and atheist, and love OSS and science of all stripes. I enjoy a good bit of whargarbl now and again, and will occasionally even seek it out. I am also apparently responsible for the death of common sense on the internet. My bad.
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The commenting rules are simple: don't piss me off. This rule has worked for me for a decade; I have never found a need for any other rule, because any other rules leads to rules-lawyering. Just remember --
this is my property, not yours.
Mine’s not in the same universe as CaitieCat’s, but I couldn’t resist giving it a shot:
Skepticism is
Only believing your friends
And not anyone else
What the hey:
Ordinary claims
require ordinary evidence
unless famous
Skepticism is
never admitting that your leaders could be
wrong
D’oh! One word off:
Skepticism is
never admitting that your leaders could do
wrong
Poetry is haaaaard. I’m sticking to epistemology.
Blog comments are courts.
Lynch mobs, witch hunts, names in mud.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Or to do my preferred method of poetry…
There once was a blogger named Paul
Who–can you believe?!–had the gall
To trust victims’ claims!
You ask me, he aims
To nail the accused to the wall!
I’m sure you all know FTB,
They’re baboons and nazis, you see.
They post just for hits,
They’re all massive twits,
And they won’t pay attention to me!
accusations of rape
like accusations of witchcraft:
neither happens
Poetry is hard
Mail order proctology is harder
Ouch, that hurts
Do not keep heroes
They are only sacks of meat
Who mess with your head
Hyperskeptical
logic trumps empathy, and
… well that’s all I’ve got.
consent requires sound mind and body
unless drunk
and a woman
think of damage caused by accusations!
what damage?
… no examples
trusted friend shares accusation
could save others from rape
should not post
This is getting addictive. DAMMIT.
(I actually do stand-up using formal poetry – sonnets, villanelles, and haiku for the most part; sometime, I have to re-post my “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” plot summary in seven sonnets, I won a coffeehouse prize pot with that one)
Surprise! That’s my name!
Lurking in the blog header
Didn’t expect that.
Thanks for the unexpected pleasant feeling this morning, my fellow AmericaLitean. 🙂
Is your problem real?
This is not gaslighting, babe,
just asking questions.