Quick Hitts

A few years back the game “Would You Rather…” was inexplicably popular. “Would you rather have needles shoved in your eyes, or eat a dead rat that was rotting in a ditch?” The goal was to come up with the most disgusting selections possible. It was stupid, gross and pointless and I refused to play. […]

Introducing The Smartenizer, a bi-weekly newsletter that will make you a bit smarter with every issue. Each issue of The Smartenizer will inform, educate, and smartenize you on a different subject. It will help you tweak, tune and optimize your bullshit meter. It will point to resources you can use for further smartenization. And it […]

The end of the world has been delayed for two weeks while repairs are made on the LHC.  Paranoia over it creating a black hole that will destroy the universe are ridiculous.  The most it would do is destroy the solar system.  Hey, it’s been fun.  India’s media has been broadcasting all kinds of paranoid […]

As an enthusiastic amateur chef I’m always looking for new food items and kitchen gadgets. Especially gadgets. Some gadgets are handy, some are just fun, and quite a few of them are useless. Recently I found the most useless kitchen gadget ever. Dean & Deluca, purveyors of high priced and overpriced goods, is selling an […]

The latest episode of The Quick Hitts Podcast is now available.  It’s titled “Atheists Are Coming For Your Children, but it’s not just a simple rehash of this post.  In fact, it contradicts it.  In the conclusion of that post I said fundies would be powerless to stop us from converting their children.  But after […]

I recently signed up as a writer for Ask The Atheists, a place for theists and non-theists to discuss the issue like grownups.  Rather than use my moniker “Hittman,” I decided to use you real name to give my replies the appearance of credibility.  Most of the answers given by most of the writers are […]

Watching pros play poker is often confusing. Some of their decisions seem strange, counterintuitive, and just plain wrong. This is especially true of Gus Hanson, who frequently makes plays that would seem clinically insane if it he didn’t consistently wins huge amounts of money. Watching him go all in with nothing in his hand and […]