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Pumped Prom Syndrome | The Skeptical Maltball

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. May 7, 2014. May I speak to Amanda? He would politely intone, Hi, Amanda, this is Frank. I was wondering if you might like to go to prom with me. . . Prom has become a tornado of fantastic expectations. It’s a glistening, self-validating, overwhelming summit. It’s an existential leap of faith. It’s a one-item bucket list. Consequently, the stakes are ever escalating. No level of big seems big enough. Paralleling the Miss America fiasco is another celebrity prom story, ...

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August | 2015 | The Skeptical Maltball

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. Monthly Archives: August 2015. Trump: The Bigger Circus. One commentator has predicted that Mr. Trump is destined to fall because he’s supposedly a throwback candidate. Too much dependence on media attention. Very uncool. Another political observer says that Trump will fall because women don’t like him. This editorial is illustrated with a series of mind-numbing graphs measuring the female reaction to Mr. Trump from six or seven different perspe...But let us not undere...

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Dear Mr. Skygack, | The Skeptical Maltball

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. May 16, 2014. Dear Mr. Skygack,. Here’s how you were shown during your Earthly visitation, Mr. Skygack. Earthlings are fascinated by the lumpy, overhanging Klingon foreheads. A number of Klingon cosplayers have even learned the language. It isn’t real cosplaying unless you can voice your character. Remember the things we learned about life by that pretending? Here are some superhero cosplayers for your examination, Mr. Skygack. May 16, 2014. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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The Case of the Co-Opted Crisis | The Skeptical Maltball

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. July 29, 2015. The Case of the Co-Opted Crisis. Not long ago the media was abuzz with commentary about the Confederate flag and why it should be banned from flying in southern state capitols. Many media voices insisted that this symbol of the defunct Confederacy is actually a racist banner. Others say that it represents the states’ rights v. federal government debate, and that it honors the young men who fell on those bloody battlefields long ago. July 29, 2015. ART GO...

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. Why are we so hung up on the Olympics while the world seems to be falling down around us? Precisely because the world. Falling down around us. As Ira Gershwin once wrote, With politics and taxes, and people grinding axes, there’s no happiness. We crave good news. Election coverage adds to whatever anxieties we already have. The Middle East? Natural disasters at home and abroad? Wars and rumors of wars? Why were movie musicals so popular during the Great Depression?

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A Study in Boundaries | The Skeptical Maltball

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. May 1, 2014. A Study in Boundaries. We think we don’t like limits, but we really do. Children become annoyed when their parents impose restrictions. But how would they like it if their parents suddenly stopped caring? Why don’t we enjoy news footage of riot scenes? Surely it must have been something enormous to drive a person to do something so horrific. Did she believe the dog to be the carrier of a disease capable of killing off the neighborhood? At the conclusion of...

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He’s Back! And it’s your fault! | The Skeptical Maltball

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. May 22, 2014. And it’s your fault! The physical appearance harmonizes with the voice. It is gruff and somewhat clipped, as tough as Mark Twain’s Missouri, his home state. The first thing that voice is going to ask is Now just who is this Jay Z fellow? These people need intervention. They need an international outcry and international pressure brought to bear. Mr. Cronkite always paid attention to things like that. Perhaps the reason we don’t have a Walter Cronkite toda...

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The Mind and the Matter | The Skeptical Maltball

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. February 26, 2014. The Mind and the Matter. When I was a small child, my bedroom transformed itself every night. Or at least I thought it did. With no sunlight streaming through the window over my toy chest, the night light perched on a shelf was there to give me a sense of comfort and security. The little illumination it emitted was supposed to soften the darkness. It didn’t. But this is the Age of Cynicism. Being optimistic right now looks about as hip as wearing...

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They Came from Outer Space! | The Skeptical Maltball

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. February 19, 2014. They Came from Outer Space! Have you noticed that there seems to be a big increase in strange people doing strange things? The News of the Weird is now just the news. Because only I seem to understand what’s really going on, I will attempt to convey the truth of our perilous situation before they. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? No matter how improbabl...

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Are You Skeptical Enough? | The Skeptical Maltball

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Skepticism is the gateway to irony. October 17, 2013. Are You Skeptical Enough? A Thomas Jefferson quote that is all too rare is the one in which he said that newspapers the media of his time should be divided into four sections 1. Truths 2. Probabilities 3. Possibilities and 4. Lies. He contended that the fourth section would be the biggest. Are we believing what we hear on the car radio as we drive or what we quickly take in via our TV and computer screens? These are just a few fun facts that many peop...