The alleged SciFi Channel, which has a series of "reality" shows featuring pseudoscientific drivel, finally did one right:
Mind Control with Derren Brown.
Derren shows how people can be manipulated to do or believe all sorts of weird things; I first read about him from
Randi.
The key to the show: in the intro Derren clearly states that he has no supernatural powers. In the first episode, that premiered tonight, he got everyone in a mall to raise their hands simultaneously without their thinking about it. It was hilarious, especially since it was the
same mall our group frequented during our training in New York. Later he payed for a $4500 ring with blank slips of paper. It's nice to see someone expose the techniques used to fleece the credulous.
Now if we can just get SciFi to stop making monster vs. cleavage movies unfit for MST3K...
I'm squirreling away part of my larger-than-expected commission check this quarter so that in March of 2008, I can go to Washington DC to see Kiki and Herb's Year of Magical Drinking. I can't wait!
A shocking and sickening expose of John Hagee's Christians United For Israel is here. These precious lambs of god are...precious. Hateful, insular, childish, superstitious, transparently deceptive, self-righteous and proud of it, and gleefully ignorant (and seemingly prouder of that), one would think that no one of any authority would take them seriously. Wrong! Lookie at who shows up. It's the worst elements of fundamentalist Chritianity and Jewry, joined in the common goal of fulfilling their messianic dreams (and eagerly awaiting with sadistic delectations seeing those who stood against them tormented on an eternal pyre). 
