Though the reality is that Obama is well aware we’re going to vote for him regardless of how much he dicks us around because the alternative is so much worse.

Oh, the number of times I’ve had this conversation with someone. It never ceases to amaze me how they’ll accept, . . . → Read More: The Box is infallible. Never question the Box.]]> This has been floating around for awhile, but I thought I’d share it anyway. The following cartoon illustrates near-perfectly the difficulty in using the scientific method to discover the truth with a True Believer™:

Oh, the number of times I’ve had this conversation with someone. It never ceases to amaze me how they’ll accept, without question, something their holy book says and will insist that until science has every piece of the puzzle figured out that the book is right and science in wrong. The Theory of Evolution being the most obvious example.

Doesn’t matter how much the evidence backs up science, if it doesn’t answer every little question then it’s wrong.

In fact, I can’t hit the change channel button fast enough.

Updated to add: You know, now that I think about it, there’s a lot of commercials . . . → Read More: I’m all for saving abandoned pets and animals…]]> … but I’d be a flat-out liar if I didn’t say that the following is 100% what I do when I see one of these commercials:

In fact, I can’t hit the change channel button fast enough.

Updated to add: You know, now that I think about it, there’s a lot of commercials that make me react that way. Another example is friggin’ Montel Williams shilling for Money Mutual. As soon as I hear “Hi I’m Montel…” the remote is being crushed in my hands as I desperately try to change the channel.

This is why anything that I really want to watch ends up being recorded on the DVR so when I get around to watching it I can skip anything that would make me change the channel. If I’m just browsing the channels either of these, and a host of other, commercials will pretty much guarantee that I stop watching whatever the hell I was watching.

Now they’ve gone and put out a new version 2.0 of the comic: