Tag Archives: debate

We Won’t Fly – Homeland Security Trolling We Won’t Fly Blog

Appar­ently the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity employ­ees isn’t happy with We Won’t Fly.

December 22, 2010 – 5:20 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Security, Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Skepticblog – The Reasonableness of Weird Things

Peo­ple believe in irra­tional things because they accept the evi­dence for it, they just typ­i­cally don’t access all of the evi­dence or the evi­dence that is more accurate.

July 27, 2010 – 1:31 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Friendly Atheist – An Iowa College’s Response to Blasphemy Day

Free­dom of speech is impor­tant for peo­ple to feel free to cri­tique any idea even one as per­sonal as religion.

July 24, 2010 – 2:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Because I Don’t Know Enough About Geek Culture

So go and find out more about Geek Cul­ture. It does include me all in there technology/debate/Star Wars. Geek is really just another term for some­one who is overly enthused about a cer­tain subject area.

December 19, 2009 – 9:09 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Random | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Calling Something Factual, Doesn’t Make It Magically Factual

Specif­i­cally, this is another time in which I call out Repub­li­cans for their lack of atten­tion to basic logic and under­stand­ing of facts. I received an email tonight from the RNC regard­ing Obama, Con­gress and the orga­ni­za­tion ACORN. In this email the GOP makes the claim that “It seems the Obama Admin­is­tra­tion has plans to …

April 9, 2009 – 2:19 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

My response to Glen Beck’s silly “We surround them”

Glen Beck not too long ago did a silly lit­tle thing in which he posted a list of 9 state­ments and said that if you believe in them to send in a pic­ture for him to do dis­play them or some­thing. This is my response to the list. Amer­ica is good. Right a coun­try is now …

March 11, 2009 – 1:00 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

One isn’t Many and Many isn’t All

One of the argu­ments that I hear for why peo­ple express an –ism belief (racism, sex­ism, ageism, etc), is that they had this expe­ri­ence with this one per­son and you know that must be how every­one of that par­tic­u­lar group is. I love this kind of rea­son­ing it’s so illog­i­cal it’s almost funny and yet …

January 7, 2009 – 10:34 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off