Logical Fallacies

The first in a series of short videos uploaded to YouTube by Wireless Philosophy. Another valuable tool in the bullshit detection kit made famous by Carl Sagan.

Aliens exist, right?

Well. Maybe.

I shot this a couple of weeks ago at the Winter Sculpture and Wine Fair at the Cradle of Humankind. I also shot a fair bit of wine. Which is probably why the “being” lying on the ground behind the sculpture appears to look like an ET… calling home.

Be that as it may, it made me think of this Blink 182 song which I haven’t heard in a while. Hope you like it.

Estuary at night

Place camera on rock. Set aperture. And walla…

The Estuary at Port Edward, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Saturday night.

What the devil?

In the latest bout of absurdity from the world of pious prats, Iran has banned spiky and other unorthodox hairstyles for men.

Apparently the self-appointed terrestrial regulators of the celestial overlords have decided to condemn trendy hairstyles as “devil worshipping,” and pronounced them in contravention of Islamic regulations. The head of Iran’s Barber’s Union Mostafa Govahi, is quite pleased with this ruling because the prosecution of his fashionable but unregistered competitors, would send business to unionised barbers who toe the religious line.

Currently, those ghastly bushy beards (which for some inexplicable reason is propitious to the celestial overlords) are not compulsory for Iranian men, but who knows how long these men will be allowed to keep good clean faces, what with the theological tyrants constantly looking for new ways to heap misery upon mankind.

Perhaps it’s only a matter of time before Iran’s Underwear Union declares anything but Bridgette Jones type undergarments to be religiously legal. Maybe the Mormons can get a piece of that action.