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SkeleTony

I am in a very peculiar business; I travel all over the world telling people what they should alread

About Me

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..First and foremost, I am a skeptic . Deepak Chopra be DAMNED!
For those not in the know, modern skepticism is a philosophical position. Skeptics champion the principles of critical thinking and scientific methodology in the examination of various claims about reality. Skeptics(and scientists in general) usually proceed from an axiomatic position of materialism.
I am also the former/original front man for I DEFY, a local rock and roll band which suffered my youthful ignorance & alcoholism, a drummer's(and a guitarist's) achingly bad lyrical submissions(and other terrible ideas/requests), ripping songs from said drummer's former band, drug abuse, in-fighting, and lineup changes that would make DRI say "Man...why did they even keep that name?!" and is somehow still around today.

My Interests

Comic books/sequential artMusic books Politics

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Philosophy debate Computer games (mostly turn based strategy/tactical games) Science.

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I'd like to meet:

James Randi Michael Shermer Richard Dawkins Daniel Dennet Al Jourgensen( MINISTRY ) Will Eisner David Quinn(Faust: Love of the Damned) GWAR ... and a whole lot more.

Music:


Ministry Filthy Misfits G.G. Allin NOFX Sick of it All The Accused Septic Death Induce Vomit MDC Dead Kennedys Fear Factory GWAR Poison IdeaEarth, Wind and Fire The Manhattans The Spinners The Commodores The Gap BandCream Jimmy Hendrix David Bowie Black SabbathJerry Falwell's God
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This song is incredibly hauntingly catchy:

Ghosts lyrics - Ladytron lyrics Ghosts Video - Ladytron Music Videos Music Videos by VideoCure

Ministry's brilliant cover of Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay

THE atheist anthem from the kings!

"Drinking the blood of Jesus Drinking it right from his veins Learning to swim in the ocean Learning to prowl in his name The Body of Christ came unto me Preaching with cock in his hand He wants you to suck on the Holy Ghost And swallow the sins of man." -Psalm 69 Moving and eerie song. The old guy at the end of this video is none other than William S. Burroughs who was a friend of the band until his death.Take this invitation Bishops Queen to Pawn All of us were taken All that was is gone Of this information Shames us one and all Where's my compensation? Watching others fall Welcome to the fall Everything is useless Nothing works at all Nothing ever matters Welcome to the fall Welcome to the fall Welcome to the fall Welcome to the fall

Movies:

The Road Warrior(but not Mad Max or Beyond Thunderdome so much) The Usual Suspects Memento Batman Begins The Dark Knight Sin City Pitch Black(best sci-fi movie ever made IMO) The Terminator(not the crappy sequels though) Half-Baked(funniest comedy I have ever seen 273 times!) Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Manhunter(still better than Red Dragon) Heat Collateral(can you tell I dig Michael Mann?) The Lord of the Rings(I don't like Tolkien's books but Jackson's movies were great!) Boogey Nights Million Dollar Baby Mystic River High Art Pulp Fiction Gladiator Blade Runner Legend SLC PunkMany as I can remember off the top of my head.

Television:

Heroes
Battlestar Galactica
Various forensic/crime scene shows(Cold case files etc.)
Law & Order(and all the spin offs such as SVU)

Books:

"How We Believe..." & "Why People Believe Weird Things" by Dr. Michael Shermer"The Faith Healers" by James Randi"The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins"Science on Trial" by Douglas J. Futuyma"Minds, Brains and Computers: The Foundations of Cognitive Science"(anthology)"Broca's Brain" , "Cosmos"and "The Demon Haunted World" by Carl SaganThe "Elric" saga by Michael Moorcock"The Book of the New Sun"(tetralogy) by Gene Wolfe"X Stands for Unknown" (as well as various short stories) by Isaac Asimov"Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations", "Lies...and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" by Al Franken"Language, Truth and Logic" by Alfred Jules Ayer...too damned many to remember off the top of my head right now. Will amend later.

Heroes:

James Randi Cliff Walker Michael Shermer Richard Dawkins Al Jourgenson Penn & Teller Pat Tilman

My Blog

Anatomy of a Sarah Palin Speech(and Other Tidbits...)

Actually this is a deconstruction of THE Sarah Palin speech. The one she keeps repeating for the mindless idiots.For those who have not had the displeasure, here is an acurate summary of her oratory ...
Posted by SkeleTony on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:01:00 PST

Why 9/11 Conspiracies Are Like Christianity

Here I will post an enumerated list of corresponding simalarities between Christianity and the ’9/11 Trooth’-er claims. 9/11 Conspiracy Theory movement1)Claims that the ("alleged" as they ...
Posted by SkeleTony on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:10:00 PST

Ron Paul: Worse than George W. Bush?

Most of Ron Paul's young fan-base will not remember a guy named Ross Perot.Back in 1992 I was a 22-23 year old Libertarian. Bill Clinton seemed to come out of nowhere to be the Democratic candidate wh...
Posted by SkeleTony on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:17:00 PST

The 'Hitlerian' mistake of the religious right.

The following was a response to a thread about gay and atheist civil liberties in America, posted at the MySpace R&P boards.The great irony here is that there was a time in this formerly great nat...
Posted by SkeleTony on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:59:00 PST

Atheism on the Rise?

We are always told by the republicans(and others) that atheists make up somewhere between 5% and 8% of the population in America. Some polls seem to confirm this. But I have always thought this seemed...
Posted by SkeleTony on Fri, 18 May 2007 09:16:00 PST

The Pen Is Mightier...: A Look at Right-Wing Subterfuge

Anyone who has watched The Daily Show, or who has just paid attention the last decade, will be familiar with a favorite tactic of Fox News network. Almost every day, the think-tank behind that house o...
Posted by SkeleTony on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:19:00 PST

The Good, the Bad, and the Spandex-Clad: Comic-book-to-film translations(and how they suck)

Out of all the comic-to-film translations(C2f's from this point on), there are a handful worth watching, a few brilliant movies...and countless bad or unwatchably bad films. I am going to hurt feeling...
Posted by SkeleTony on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:16:00 PST

My Latest Encounter with the Door-To-Door Jesus Salesmen...

I am typically visited once or twice a week by people knocking on my door to offer me an invitation to their church or some sort of religious propaganda in the form of a book, magazine or some such. U...
Posted by SkeleTony on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:25:00 PST

War on Christmas...?

I do not get the Fox News Channel anymore.I don't just mean that figuritively, as in "I do not understand the nonsense they are spouting over there!?". I mean I literally do not get Fox News because D...
Posted by SkeleTony on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:44:00 PST

Faith and Reason

If you have watched many films and/or read many books, you will be familiar with the following:1)Man loses faith2)Man's world comes crumbling down around him3)Dramatic event prompts man to go on a jou...
Posted by SkeleTony on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:36:00 PST