House of Eratosthenes

In response to “what about rape” question, ask: “Is your father a rapist?” (the answer will be no). Follow up with: “if he were, would I be allowed to shoot you dead right here, right now?”
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“How much does the atomsphere weigh?” (the answer is 5 quadrillion tons, aka 5,000,000,000,000,000 – that’s 15 zeroes).

“If the humans pump 1 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year, how many years will it take to increase the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere from 0.038% to 0.04%? (The answer is 25,000).

Great stuff.

What a great find and interesting information.
I’m getting Arguing with Idiots – Glenn Beck – but this is equally delicious.

Thanks,
- Kini | 11/25/2009 @ 22:04
Good stuff, I’ve added him to my daily reading list
- pdwalker | 11/25/2009 @ 23:04
” Exercise in Futility” blows goats. I read a few of his posts, and I am not impressed. Yeah, the guy is a conservative. So friggin’ what? You can be on the Right without being an ass. It’s not like it takes a lot of brains to see that feminism, socialism, and radical environmentalism are dead-end-streets.

Yes, he eviscerates a few left-wingers. From here, it looks like the guy is picking fights with three-foot-tall wrestlers and expecting me to cheer wildly when he wins. Pick on someone your own size, cowboy.

Am I supposed to be impressed with his wordsmithing? He can’t go three words without saying “fuck.” Peppering your speech with that is not only offensive to some, it makes the writer look like an idiot with a limited vocabulary.

The guy is cynical, pessimistic, and doesn’t even attempt to understand anything outside of his pathetic little worldview. I’m especially disgusted by his revolting stereotypes of people of faith. His “questions for atheists” piece sputtered, backfired, and missed by a country mile. You can’t scold the rigidly secular while yourself refusing to advocate for a fixed point of moral reference.

I left a lengthy response to that posting, explaining what my faith means to me and why. I was struck by the utter myopia and foolishness not only on his part, but also the commenters that have stopped by and attempted to answer his questions. It was like watching a bunch of people argue over whether you should perform PC repair with an electric mixer vs a pipe wrench. Just made me shake my head.

Sorry, Morgan. Epic fail. You’ve got terrible taste in the company you keep. I love YOUR writing, but this is at least the fifth “friend” of yours that I can’t freaking stand.
- cylarz | 11/26/2009 @ 23:11
Actually, I take back the “terrible taste” line, Morgan. Pardon me.

You do have one regular here whose writing I absolutely love, and that’s Philmon. Gerard himself actually isn’t that bad either, I just didn’t care much for this new fellow he recommended to you.
- cylarz | 11/26/2009 @ 23:28
Cylarz,

I’ve got hundreds and hundreds of other places on my blogroll…some defunct, since I haven’t yet efficiently allocated the time needed to go pruning…

Very few of them are going to put out something that cuts through the crap so well, and fits on a tee shirt or bumper sticker so neatly, as “Drop this feminism immediately or die alone with your cats.”

In fact, I can’t speak for you, but I’d give up a lot just to go wearing that on my chest into Starbucks in New Paltz.
- mkfreeberg | 11/27/2009 @ 08:24
“Cuts through the crap?” Are you fracking serious, Morgan?

I read that piece prior to commenting here. While I can appreciate the blogger’s perspective (and certainly applaud his lashing out at hardcore feminists and metrosexual wimpy males alike), I still have a huge problem with his style. For me, a conservative lashing out at naive, misguided feminist thinking is a little like talking about media bias. It’s old news to the Right, and sour grapes to the Left.

My biggest beef with that blogger (aside from his tiresome bigotry towards the religious) is that he seems to think that the only reason to be nice to a woman is to get her pants off. I am pretty tired of trying to get some woman’s attention, only to have her brush me off out of the apparent assumption that I’m like the rest of the guys who behave this way. I’ve got as strong a libido as anyone, but I also know the value of self-control and I don’t go mattress-hopping. I also don’t use women as playthings which which to gratify myself. When I approach a woman, my big head rules my little one, not the other way around.

After having his way, he presumably tosses her aside like yesterday’s newspaper. Several of his other posts suggest exactly this. For him, “success” with a woman isn’t connecting with her on a deep emotional level and going on to have a long-term, mutually satisfying relationship…it’s getting her into bed. He doesn’t say what happens after the sack time is done; I can only assume he moves on to his next conquest. In one post, he seems to be in utter disbelief that any person would have religiously-inspired mores which didn’t allow this. The guy isn’t stupid; he’s myopic and narrow-minded.

I’m pretty tired of running into this whole basket of nonsense, the whole mindset which seems to assume that getting laid is the pinnacle of the human experience. It’s not just this blogger; it also seems to be the sole objective of the participants on those dating shows on TV. A lot of magazines talk about little else. I actually feel sorry for such people, the ones who buy into this. Sex, while important, has its place in a committed relationship, and there is certainly more to life than just that.
- cylarz | 11/28/2009 @ 01:16
I suppose our disagreement here is the natural result of a devolving and superficial world. You rankle at the idea of men who use women as Hershey’s bits — sucking out the good stuff in the first minute, chucking aside what’s left like the empty wrapper it is.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that whole phenomenon has been overstated. I admit my view might change if I walked around in a woman’s shoes for a year or two. I’ll even admit that’s probable. But in real life, that hasn’t happened, I’m a man, and I know there is a crisis in the other direction — women using men and throwing them away when they aren’t fun anymore — and most women are absolutely blind to it.

I would add, further, than when a female skates on through life never learning how to truly relate to anybody, she hurts a lot more people besides just her rejected suitors. She hurts herself a lot, first & foremost. And then her kids. The guys you’re talking about? Before they even get to the first step, they have to learn more about what makes people tick than these heartless scolds ever will. They “hurt” one person at a time — and they grow out of it. And also, let us not forget: They were chosen for being what they are.
- mkfreeberg | 11/28/2009 @ 08:10

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