The FDA Steps It Up

It's 3d6 of bullshit damage.

Homeopathy is magic.

Like, seriously. The tenets on which this "medical" "modality" are based are straight-up prescientific grimoire shit. The basic foundation, "like cures like," is the kind of nonsense thinking behind voodoo dolls: something that is like a thing is the thing itself, therefore it can affect the thing. (Or something.)

With voodoo dolls, the idea is to poke the doll and thus cause pain to the person. In homeopathy, the idea is that if you have insomnia, you need caffeine. Because it causes wakefulness, therefore it can also cure it.

Yes, seriously.

But see, you have to dilute it in water by approximately 100,000x (also seriously) while simultaneously shaking it in just the right way and beating the solution against just the right kind of horsehide (also also seriously) to make it work. By the time you're done, the water "remembers" the effect of the magical substance you put in it, even though it's diluted to the point where there's not even a single molecule of it left.

See? Fucking magic. And, well, every single well designed scientific trial of homeopathy has shown that, surprise surprise, it does absolutely fucking nothing.

And yet the FDA treats homeopathic "remedies" as legit medications. Until, hopefully, now.

Things We Find Funny #1

Poor Butt.

"I Don't Know" is A OK

New information is an excellent thing. Jumping to conclusions about new information for shitty reasons is a non, non, non-excellent thing.

Recently, The New York Times exposed the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program; a shadowy scheme managed deep inside The Pentagon with an acronym that doubles as the answer to "What does an Applebee's server exclaim when the white trash family leaves?"

A...A TIP?

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A Little Knowledge...

This picture of noted awesome guitarist Tom Morello made the front page on Imgur recently, presumably because, like its subject, it is awesome.

Why is on the back of his guitar, though?

For those of you unfamiliar with Tom "Meat Swinger" Morello (that was his nickname during his brief tenure as a male stripper) (no, we are not joking), he was/is the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, and he is an absolute beast. While he was earning that honors poli-sci degree from Harvard, he was also practicing the guitar for 8 hours a day, inventing new ways to make sound come out of the thing. Between his wah-wah pedal and Zach de la Rocha's amazing vocals, Rage became one of the most unique musical acts to come out of the 90s. Even if you don't 100% agree with their politics (and we don't), nothing makes you more ready to start a mass revolt than RatM.