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Who Raised the Gas Prices? HPS Finds the Answer.

Setting the Record Straight

Supposedly, on July 16, Michael Savage the No. 3 syndicated radio talk show host in the country, said the following things about autism: “Now, you want me to tell you my opinion on autism? … it’s a fraud, a racket.” ”Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I’ll tell you what autism is. [...]

IT’S JUST NOT FUNNY

The cover of the latest New Yorker magazine (left) has resulted in storm and fury among the punditocracy, depicting as it does Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as terrorists, with an American flag burning in a fireplace over which hangs a portrait of Osama Bin Laden.  The discussion has been focusing on whether the satrically intended cover [...]

TOO LITTLE INFORMATION: Things we don’t know.

Why it takes a year for oil to be turned into gas but gas prices are skyrocketing now. Why it is wrong to say being a prisoner for five years doesn’t give someone a global perspective on war. Why we care so much about other people’s sex lives, gay or straight. Why all major religions [...]

Cash The Reality Check

Think before you believe. Two of this week’s most widely reported news items were revealed to be completely unfounded but not before generating a wave of doom saying for American culture throughout the Punditocracy. It is no coincidence that both false stories concerned teenagers having sex, which is everyone is against but no one can resist talking about. False Story [...]

May You Have Your Attention Please

Why do so many of us do more than one thing at once? I mean there’s exiting an elevator, and there’s responding to a text message. Those are two separate activities. There’s reading a newspaper, then there’s climbing a flight of stairs. Again, two things. There’s riding a bicycle, and there’s talking on a cell [...]

Pointed Sticks

“Policians assume we are all stupid, selfish and venal because they judge us by themselves.” - JP Zenger

Autism Speaks with Forked Tongue

Autism Speaks presents itself as the premiere organization to give to if you want to help children on the autism spectrum and alleviate the tremendous financial and emotional pressure their families are under. This presentation is false, and Autism Speaks reliance on it to bring in funding is misleading almost to the point of criminality. [...]