Dear Reader,
Apparently my hosting provider hijacked the blog and sent all my traffic to some scam/spam site. Please be patient while I recover the site over the next few days.
In other news, stay the hell away from NoAdsFree.com. It’s a scam.
-KW
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Minor Catastrophe – Still recovering
by Kavan Wolfe
Apologies for Down Time
by Kavan Wolfe
Dear Reader,
My apologies for the recent downtime of the War on Bullshit blog. The traffic from my last post (12 Bonehead Misconceptions of Computer Science Professors) blew my bandwidth allocation and I didn’t notice until yesterday (thanks Michelle!). Just my luck that one of my posts would get popular just when I’m ignoring my blog [...]
War on BS on Hiatus until New Year
by Kavan Wolfe
Dear Readers,
I have not been updating lately due to some important projects that have been consuming all of my time. I believe it best, at this point, to stop pretending I’m going to get a post up any time now.
I’ll be back to my regular schedule starting the second week of January. Until then, best [...]
12 Bonehead Misconceptions of Computer Science Professors
by Kavan Wolfe
The poster-child for what’s wrong with postsecondary education is the computer science program. Despite the enormous need for competent programmers, database administrators, systems administrators, IT specialists and a host of other technical professionals, computer science programs seem to explicitly ignore the professional skills of which western society has growing deficiency and proceed with materials and [...]
The Real Story Behind Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize
by Kavan Wolfe
Last week, U.S. President Barrack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Right-wing pundits predictably attacked him for it. Left-wing pundits predictably then attacked the right-wing pundits for it. But that’s not the story.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five prizes bequeathed by Alfred Nobel. In his will, it said that the Peace Prize should [...]
Five Things that Make Gyms a Plague Upon Fitness
by Kavan Wolfe
You would think that a fitness center, of all places, would be exempt from the lethargic malaise that pervades western society. In most cases, you would be mistaken. The modern gym is a plague upon fitness. That’s right, the very place we go to improve our health is practically custom-made to prevent us from exercising [...]
6 Reasons Western Morality is so Confused
by Kavan Wolfe
You know a conversation is headed sideways when the topic turns to morals and ethics. For any major social issue of our time – gay marriage, women’s reproductive rights, freedom of speech, religion in public schools, even climate change – you can find normally reasonable people who reach contradictory conclusions on the ethical choice. [...]
Top 10 Injury Causing Machines in Gyms
by Kavan Wolfe
A typical modern gym houses hundreds of individual pieces of exercise equipment, some of which appear purposefully designed to injure as many trainees as possible. Here are ten of the most dangerous exercise machines. Avoid these, and avoid any so-called personal trainer who recommends them.
1. Smith Machine
A smith machine is just a bar built into [...]
The golden rule, AKA The Ethic of Reciprocity is at the very heart of Christian thinking. (Not that Christians actually practice it, but that’s a rant for another time). However, “do to others what you would like to be done to you” suffers from an obvious logical flaw: not everyone wants to be treated the [...]
BS Forms of Exercise and their Athletic Alternatives
by Kavan Wolfe
Western society is plagued by obesity and general ill-health for many reasons: the raging incompetence of medical professionals; fitness snake-oil salesmen; belief in a variety of health-related myths; and desperate confusion about nutrition to name a few. Another serious problem is that people are generally confused about the meaning of exercise. Here are five non-exercises [...]