Archive for May, 2007

Malice and Tibbie (with a Dash of Seavey) on “Cash Cab” Tonight (UPDATE: or at least in this brief video clip)

If all goes as expected (it’s TV), I’ll be mentioned briefly on Discovery Channel’s trivia show Cash Cab tonight at 5:30 Eastern time, having been called as a lifeline or shout-out or whatever they call it on Cash Cab to answer a question about a famous murder in which the defendants, in essence, pled “brainwashed […]

Men, Women, Again

A very special guest-blogger (with whom I’ll be at Niagara Falls over the weekend, so debate politely in our absence) weighs in on the comments of Peter the “seduction community” member who commented so intriguingly in the long thread resulting from my earlier post on feminism (I should say that while I stand by pretty […]

Conspiracies and Ron Paul

It is ironic that just when I find myself looking with pity at conspiracy theorists, my favorite presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), is in danger of becoming “the conspiracy theory candidate” in some people’s minds. But first, I should explain why conspiracy theories have been on my mind lately.
Conspiracy Theorists […]

Death Notice: Raymonde Evanchik

The mother of this site’s webmaster has passed away, and he sends the following obituary:
Raymonde Evanchik
Wife, Mother, and Grandmother.
Daughter of Joseph “Albert” Billaux and Germaine Thalgott Billaux. Wife of Nicholas. Mother of Michel and Francoise. Grandmother of Jack and Freya.
Born July 8, 1940, Redon, France. Died May 16, 2007, Calvary Hospital, […]

Atheism, Book II

Ah, you academics, with all of your words and your ideas. It’s ironic that Christine, who was one of my defenders in the “Aborting Feminism…” post’s response thread — where I was also faulted for lumping diverse forms of the criticized philosophy together — is now my harshest critic in the first “Atheism…” thread, […]

Atheism on ABC’s “20/20” This Week (Video link added)

Tomorrow night (Friday, May 11, 2007, at 9pm Eastern) ABC News airs a two-hour special on Seeing and Believing: The Power of Faith — but the good news is that there will be one segment on atheism, reported by my old boss, John Stossel, who is usually the conduit through which sanity is injected into […]

The Celebrities I Loved

Say, no sooner do I post the previous blog entry, noting my new girlfriend, than the first celebrity I recall finding attractive — Annie Lennox — is in the news, her house destroyed by party-goers who found out online about her daughter’s intention to throw a party there (a growing problem with MySpace, apparently, though […]

Book Selection of the Month: “Girlbomb” by Janice Erlbaum (plus: New-Girlfriend Bombshell)

ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (May 2007):
Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir by Janice Erlbaum
In recent entries on this blog, I mentioned being troubled by people’s tendency to invest intellectual energy in illusions instead of analyzing the real world carefully. Janice Erlbaum’s memoir of her troubled teenage years (of which the paperback edition was […]

DEBATE AT LOLITA BAR: “Does the Beauty Industry Oppress Women?”

As if my recent blog entry denouncing feminism weren’t controversial enough, two talented comedian-debaters will tackle the question “Does the Beauty Industry Oppress Women?” at the next of our monthly Debates at Lolita Bar.
Charles Star argues “yes” and Jen Dziura argues “no.”
That’s tomorrow (Wednesday), May 2, at 8pm, at 266 Broome St. (basement level) at […]