Author: Michael Minkoff, Jr.

There’s Now a Vaginal Speaker that Plays In-Womb Tunes to Unborn Babies

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Just file this under “what-in-the-cocaine-fueled-late-night-marketing-brainstorm-session-is-that-Batman.” Prepare yourself. Apparently, there is a significant demographic of aspiring parents who want to ensure their unborn baby doesn’t have his in-utero-tertainment muffled by the annoying abdominal wall of his mother. Not to worry, you crazy people, Babypod is here to save the day: Spanish company Babypod has invented a […]

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Are Americans Too Stupid for Democracy to Work?

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A new study out of Cornell University indicates that Americans are too stupid for democracy to work: The research, led by David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people’s ideas. For example, if people lack expertise […]

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The Big Short Stands Tall on Explanations, but Gives No Solution

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Recognizing that it’s only January, I can already say with some degree of confidence that The Big Short is the best movie that’s going to be released this year. As a movie, it succeeds on every level. The acting, directing, editing, cinematography, music, pacing, and script are all superb. The movie has an eclectic range […]

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The Click Clique, Ad Blockers, and the Future of the Internet

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I’ll tell you a secret. I have never intentionally clicked on an internet ad. Not once in my whole life. I know that probably seems strange to you given the fact that I write for a site that makes the entirety of its income from ad revenue. But it’s the truth. I don’t watch television […]

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Is Donald Trump the New Barry Goldwater?

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A lot of people have been comparing Donald Trump to Barry Goldwater because they are both “anti-establishment” candidates who still have popular support. But that’s about where the comparison ends. Barry Goldwater, like Ron Paul, stood by fixed convictions that made him very unpopular with establishment GOP players. He wasn’t able to be manipulated. In […]

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Does Dog-Whistle Racism Actually Exist?

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You’ve probably heard of the GOP’s dog-whistle racism. It refers to any untraceable nod to a voter base’s racial prejudices. It is a political signal of agreement with socially unacceptable or politically incorrect imbalances that is always small or innocent enough to have plausible deniability. Like a dog whistle, it can be heard by the […]

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Everything is a Sales Pitch, so the Disappearance of Greatness is Probably Our Fault

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Everything is a sales pitch. All the content you read, the shows and movies you watch, the music you listen to… Even the church service you attend and the political campaign you endorse. Everything is a sales pitch. Everyone is trying to sell you something. Everything conforms to a marketing strategy. And it’s probably your […]

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Video Gamer Sues Software Company for Making Game “Too Addictive”

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A Russian video gamer is suing Bethesda Softworks for making Fallout 4 too addictive: Apparently, after seeing an advertisement for the game, the man decided to download it and spend a few hours playing over the next few days. Those days quickly turned into weeks, and after missing several days of work, he was fired […]

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Climate Change Activism is a Clinic on Informal Fallacies

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Bette Midler recently blamed “ignorant selfish climate deniers” for the uncommonly warm winter weather: Dec. 22, 2015, 63 degrees in NYC. I would like to thank the ignorant selfish climate deniers for all their goodwill toward the planet. Midler is just another in a long line of climate change activists who can’t seem to get […]

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FDA Relaxes Rules for Homosexual Blood Donors … They Say It’s Still Not Enough

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The FDA recently relaxed its rules for homosexuals who want to donate blood. Apparently, homosexuals are now allowed to give blood if they have refrained from homosexual contact for a year. But homosexuals and activists say this new rule is still too restrictive and discriminatory: “The revised policy is still discriminatory,” said a statement from the […]

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