I think Matt Welch sums up the “but we’re at war” political excuse-reasoning quite nicely.
It’s no real news that political speech is full of fallacy and rhetoric, it’s just sad that it’s become what we expect from our leaders.
Appeal to Force: The reader is persuaded to agree by force: If you […]

Just noticed that Magnapop has a wikipedia entry. Should I edit it before radical muslims deface it? Nah. We also are on myspace now, which I found out recently is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Nice.

Intolerance simply cannot be tolerated. And if you think that’s a contradiction, look closer at the logic. The premise of democracy is necessarily that of radically free speech, that all voices must be tolerated, and while that includes the voices of intolerance (pick your hate group of choice), it doesn’t include any action that […]

The father of LSD, Albert Hoffman, turned 100 a few weeks ago, proving that LSD is the key to longevity. Nah, really he wasn’t a Timothy Leary sort. He held a much more conservative vision of LSD. The thing is, before it was demonized by the media (damn you, liberal media) the drug actually […]

I’m researching a spring mini-trip right now, in the days preceding the magnapop spring tour, and am absolutely stunned at the prices you can get from RyanAir. 0.79 GBP to fly from London to Dublin! Say what? That’s cheaper than Taco Bell. A few years ago, we got RyanAir flights from Milan to Girona (Barcelona) […]