Icarus Rants

So, guess what?  The measles vaccine was developed around 1954, and by 1963 - almost ten years of testing - declared safe and effective eno...

I'm mocking this meme. The entire function of this meme is to play on the Western freakout about non-binary gender identity and non-bi...

FUCK YOU, AMERICA! 45% of the electorate is embracing racism, bigotry, ignorance, tax-evasion, draft-dodging, hatred, arrogance, religiou...

Here’s how you can use the ‘Facebook effect’ to stop Donald Trump From the article: Although one can still choose to not participate ...

The level of thought put into the massive text bleed on that front page is impressive. Some makes sense, some makes me laugh, some... doe...

I love the meme: "Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman." Except that Batman is damaged goods. ...

Depression, my old friend. You have come back to see me. You have come back to spend time. You snuck up on me over the summer.  I didn'...

Science has determined that every sperm represents half the genetic make-up of a human being. That means that each and every sperm is a pot...

Doubling-down on "abstinence-only" is like the athlete who says "Hey, smashing my foot with a hammer every morning, isn'...

You don't need to know why I occasionally see these articles by this Norm Rogers guy, but let's just say I find him amusing. In...

I can honestly say I don't give a crap about the new 4K Ultra HD TVs, now in shiny pastel color frames, with the eighty-button Uber-All...

Caitlyn Jenner is mega-news news mostly because transgender issues have been bubbling up to higher profile in the last few years. B...

I hate zombies. I hate them in fiction, I hate them in D&D, and I really hate ZomPoc movies and stories. I hate the creatures, I detest...

One of the other things often overlooked is that all modern currencies are based solely in fiction, without material backing. For example,...

I was going through my old posts, and I'm proud of everything I have written (and very  proud of some of it). Here are some oldies,...

When the ZomPoc arrives, here is the order of priority of people to protect. Remember, the long-term goal is to save the human race, and t...

I'm going to throw out a dumb question : "Even if climate change is 'natural', do we really want it to happen, at all?...

+ Leo Garcia wrote " America... where killing the unborn is an option; but protecting children from toxic chemicals is a crime....

Science is cool. It's good to know, that despite the best efforts of the neo-feudalists, scientists press onward with discovering the t...

When a fan-made video gets 146M views (at the t ime of this writing, in December, 2014), and no one even knows how to find your official vid...