Last week, I opened my inbox to find a petition from GDad that I take on some completely ridiculous woo that he stumbled across. I clicked through and laughed for a long, long time as I was introduced to the masterworks of the above-pictured Erial Ali,...

Well, another Black Friday has come and gone and, as usual, I didn't even bother to wait in a long line with a bunch of smelly and probably antagonistic uberconsumers. Did you know that most Black Friday deals are available online, too? Well, I do, and...

Purdue University is practically littered with cylindrical wooden signboards on which people post everything from political protests to student group event notifications. One popular object to tack up to these boards is the "business opportunity:"...

Just a little bit ago I saw a commercial for the fine product to the right. It was advertising a free "market trial" for the first 200 or so callers. In tiny fine print, it disclaimed that the ad was not, in fact, an invitation to a scientific or...

I was talking to an old friend of mine Saturday night and I mentioned Stan Lippman, the death-threatening antivax nutjob from Seattle. He told me the following: His mother works at an inner-city school in Indianapolis. The school is governed by the...