What I'm Reading, Thursday, April 19, 2012

Politics

• Barry C. Lynn | NewAmerica.net author of…
• Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction by Barry C. Lynn

Rationalism

From a great new YouTube Channel I just discovered: Fibbs1701 – YouTube via a recommendation from DiscoveringReligion:

• How to Tell Shit from Shinola – YouTube
  

  Psychonaut Terence McKenna denounces the pitfalls of relativism, and takes us to task for cowardly biting our collective tongues and not speaking out against pseudoscience, mysticism, quackery, irrationality, superstition, and woo-woo in the name of political correctness.

  Practices referenced in this video include: charismatic snake handling, speaking in tongues, faith healers, false prophets, anti-evolutionism, televangelists, psychics, New Age crystals, astrology, ghost hunting, alien abductions, UFOs, horoscopes, tarot cards, the flat Earth theory, geocentrism, creation science, acupuncture, phrenology, psychoanalysis, witchcraft, orgone energy, scientology, enneagrams, iridology, magnetic therapy, ouija boards, seances, paranormal plant perception, ESP, being slain in the spirit, homeopathy, psychic readings, reincarnation, cults, climate change denial, conspiracy theorists, 2012, cargo cults, demon possession, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, crop circles, planet Nibiru, moon landing deniers, the Bermuda triangle, dowsing, psychic surgery, psychokinesis, conversion therapy, hypnosis, chiropractic, expanding Earth theory, Atlantis, anti-vaccination, the apocalypse, telepathy, out of body experiences, the rapture, ZYTO scanning, and more.

• And a pièce de résistance: Shock and Awe: A Former Christian Ponders the Cosmos – YouTube