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There is a huge movement in the US to prepare for the collapse of civilization. There are many reasons an individual “prepper” might believe that they will cut off from the supply chain. Disaster scenarios include: Acts of war such as thermonuclear war or large-scale terrorist attack. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, volcanoes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis or meteor strikes. Manmade disasters such as a broken dam, trucker’s or other strike, chemical spills, and as mentioned above, acts of war. Government embargo. Alien invasion. The space type, not the Hispanic baby type. Zombie Apocalypse . Alien baby crossing the border from Mexico into the US, artist’s interpretation. Extreme, yes! But if you’re a sensible person who has been through a natural disaster you know that at least one of these is not only possible, but happen regularly. “The government will send FEMA to take care of us. The Red Cross will show up with coffee and blankets. Wh...

I haven’t looked at a weather report today but last night they were saying possibly a foot of snow. The weather people run a Monte Carlo simulation then incorrectly take an average of the results. This is stupid because the European model is sometimes so far off the American models that the average is wrong, just wrong. Last big storm closely matched the Eu model. A model is a computer program. You type in past temp, humidity, wind speed and direction. It spits out an answer based on over 50 years of accumulated data. There are lots of possible weather but most of the possibilities are almost identical and so your weather person tells you the most likely. You probably have noticed that weather has been chaotic and extreme lately. Soon the models will no longer work. Yahoo! A model isn’t really a lookup table, it’s a bunch of equations. The more data points you enter and the better the resolution of the data points, the more accurate the prediction. I invite you to read...

White Turkey Chili Ingredients: A spritz of cooking spray 1 lb. diced cooked turkey or 1 lb ground turkey 2 Tbs. olive oil 1 large yellow onion, diced Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste 2 tsp. ground cumin 5 garlic cloves, minced 1 jalapeño, seeded and minced 1 tomatilla, diced 3 cans (each 7 oz.) whole fire-roasted Anaheim chilies, diced 4 cups low-sodium chicken broth, warmed 2 cans (each 15 oz.) cannellini beans, drained 1 can (15 oz.) pigeon peas, drained 2 Tbs. minced fresh oregano 1/3 cup minced fresh cilantro 1/4 cup cornmeal Shredded jack cheese, sour cream and lime wedges for serving Directions: Spritz a large sauté pan with cooking spray and cook the ground turkey over medium heat just until pinkness is gone. Set aside. Add the olive oil to the sauté pan. Add the onion, season with salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the cumin, garlic, jalapeño and tomatilla and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Stir in the chilies and 3 1...

In this motionless body, behind that glazing eye, and with all the appearance of death, sensitiveness and intelligence persist in their entirety. The corpse before us hears and distinguishes all that is done around it. It suffers when pinched or irritated, in a word, it has still consciousness and volition, but it has lost the instruments which serve to manifest them. Claude Bernard, 1864 quoted in ANESTHETIZING THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE: LETHAL INJECTION AND ANIMAL EUTHANASIA in BERDOE, supra note 29, at 63 (quoting Bernard) by Edward Berdoe “Locked-In Syndrome” is a neurologic condition resulting from a catastrophic brain stem injury that leaves the cerebral cortex functional. A patient with Locked-in Syndrome is fully conscious and able to feel pain , but almost completely unable to move. This is different from a persistent vegetative state or a minimally conscious state. At bedside a locked-in patient is indistinguishable from a corpse on life support. In recognized cases t...

“Frightened citizens, sheltered in place, with no means to defend themselves or their families from whatever might come crashing through their door. How many Bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago?” — The National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre, quoted by the Huffington Post . Mr. LaPierre’s characterization of non-gun owners is so IGNORANT that I wonder why the NRA lets him have a microphone. Trust me, folks who don’t have guns DO have baseball bats and crow bars, and they can tell if some kid is trying to break into their house. The main thing I get from this is that Mr. LaPierre himself falls apart under stress, then hides somewhere snuggling his gun like a security blanket. Come ON, dude. Make popcorn, turn on the TV, take a FUCKING Ativan. LaPierre is totally wrong to assume that the rest of the world has the amount of fear that he does. And he is not typical of gun owners, who are as likely to own baseball bats and crowbars as ever...

Patternicity is Shermer’s name for apophenia, the tendency to find meaning in noise. This is how we see constellations in the stars, faces on Mars, and Kaziklu Bey’s visage grinning evilly from a slice of cinnamon toast. In its negative form, patternicity is behind many forms of self-deception, from superstition to conspiracy theory. This video goes into it in depth, with examples.

Breeze was trying to tell about my back in 140 characters or less. I want to clarify. <Whine ON> 1967, grade school – Probably unrelated – Fell on my tailbone in the playground and nobody noticed I was lying on the pavement in pain. When it subsided I got up and went into class. Didn’t tell teacher or parents for reasons that are still unclear to me. 1969, grade school – Stepped on base playing kickball. Intense pain and left leg wouldn’t move. School nurse said “You’re too young to be throwing your back out.” Ok… Osteopath crunched it back and in a few days I went right back to playing kickball and softball. 1969, summer – Some idiot hit me in the forehead with the point of a big-assed curved blade. We played rough back then. LOL!! Concussion. 1970, grade school – Playing volleyball, “threw back out.” Maybe twice that year. Took in “developmental gym” for weakness in leg and tight hamstring...