The Gamut

My dad taught me never to enter into somebody else's arguments unless you had a solution. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you, the Amfivolist solution to the etymology/common usage debate over "agnostic."

Penn Gillette made a video for the Big Think. I try to help him work some stuff out.

Before we can ever reach agreement on how to run the country, we have to come to agreement on what things we already agree on.

My girlfriend recently started a new blog called "Haunted Me Blog." She's had a full and interesting life which includes several events she can't explain. Being the skeptic I have always been (by nature,) I tend to chalk the stories off to lucid dreaming, creaking/settling foundations, shadows, over-active imaginings, the usual. But she has a knack for telling the stories in an entertaining and suspenseful way that a lot of people seem to enjoy.

So if you are a fan of the spooky and weird; if you enjoy those new ghost-hunting shows; or even if you like the challenge of trying to explain away what others just assume are the super-natural, give it a read. You just might enjoy it.

http://hauntedmeblog.com/

A few people have asked my how I got the name. A few others have asked about the pronunciation.

I was initially going to make a separate video tackling each of these issues, and then I realized that they all present a common thread.

These are my thoughts on why race is a concept that has no actual meaning and why any correlations to IQ are spurious.