You can't spell 'conspiracy' without 'irrational justification'.

So, it turns out that my memory difficulties aren't all that uncommon, and there is in fact an accepted medical reason for them: my being a man. Well... how 'bout that.

So, last night I spent talking to 9/11 conspiracy theorist. You know, a dude who thinks that the government purposefully demolished the World Trace Center for purposes of... well, for some purpose. Now, I could go on and on about the debate we had, with my arguing that, basically, no; but instead I'll just sum up the BIG complaint with what he was saying. Because I'm lazy, and don't feel like typing for an hour.

It's not giving the government so much credit that they'll organize a massive conspiracy of manipulation and subtlety with a thousand points of failure. It's not giving the government so little credit that they fail virtually every time they try to cover their tracks. It's not doing both of the above at the same time. It's not even completely disregarding Occam's Razor. It's this: claiming that getting all of one's information from newspapers and TV news programs without researching it is somehow inferior to getting all of one's information from anonymous or openly biased internet sources without researching it.

Have a reasonably lovely day, y'all.