...And Out to the Wilds, Continued Again

...   She’s forced the Klingons into a less than favorable situation, so a saboteur manifested on board her ship.   It’s almost as though she’s gotten the computer worried.”             The phrasing was both fallacious and alarming.   Spock had tried to cover every outcome; had Nyota actually found a way to beat his test?   Here?   Now?   In front of this committee?   She couldn’t just ...

(FML): Honesty and Denial

...get back at Jim, aren’t you? You’re pissed because he beat your test, because he got you angry in front of everyone and turned out to be smarter than you.” His statements were almost entirely fallacious. Spock had never been in danger of ‘losing Uhura’ and he certain did not harbor resentment toward Jim. If he harbored any such resentment it had little to do with the Kobiyashi Maru and more to do...

You must choose

... about automobile liability insurance?" you may ask.  Well, allow me to explain why that argument is fallacious.  First, the Federal government does not require that you have such insurance; it is mandated at the state...to buy it as a condition of your very existence.  And let me cut off your next fallacious argument right now:  driving on the public roads is not a right.  It is a privilege licensed...

CM fic: The Tiresias Effect (1/4; Tiresias Rising)

..., not even a note slipped under his dorm room door, more covertly than Dad's note left on the table — evanescent as a whisp of water vapor, she simply ceases to be. This conclusion, Spencer knows, is fallacious: matter can't be destroyed, only changed in form, and as such, Penelope hasn't ceased to be; she's only disappeared from his life, in a move to disprove one of his most basic theses of ...

How the Minch Forced CHRISTmas

... he did Was, he warned of hell fire Then out he went, the callous old liar In their house left nothing, but murderous ire. And the one thing he left When he ravished the house Was a scripture fallacious and the spit from his mouth. Then he did the same thing to the other Bright's houses. Leaving drool and invective, from angers he rouses. It was quarter past nine All the Brights out of bed All...

December 22, 2009: Meta discussion, fandom specific meta, fandom news

... of a pretty Racially Win canon being made of so much racefail themselves. by edward-hyde on December 21, 2009 The Prisoner: McGoohan on other people's Minds . DISinformation - How the fallacious cult stories infiltrated the modern media by Moor Larkin on December 21, 2009 Rage Against The Machine: Grassroots Facebook Campaign Nets Rage Against The Machine A UK 1 by Bruce Houghton in ...

yet another book review

...sociopathic creep). This kind of thing really makes me angry: a story can focus on erotic/emotional relationships between men without either excluding or demonizing women, without giving inadvertent support to the (fallacious but understandably common) argument that m/m-centric fiction is inherently misogynistic. There's no reason a story about gay men can't also be a feminist story, and all of us...

Actually, I'm a bit surprised

... I think about it, I’m a bit surprised that the Rude Pundit, being a teacher of drama at the College of Staten Island, did not recognize that Bernie Sanders was abusively employing an abusively fallacious form of argument for the purpose of abusing citizens’ passions. This is the stuff upon which tragedies are constructed. This is what the Rude One called ‘liberal’ speech: "Why is it that we ...

... talking about Pascal's wager (that the risk/reward of believing is nothing/going to heaven, and the risk/reward of disbelieving is going to hell/nothing). Isn't it quite universally accepted to be fallacious? I mean.. I don't even have to point out what's wrong with the argument here right? Even to the non-philosophy acquainted, isn't the fallacy obvious enough? Yet this is repeatedly blasted in ...

...'s asides which attempt to debase liberals. Pretty much all through the article, her arguments are specious, fallacious, and poorly formed. Here’s a list of just a few of the humanitarian acts performed or ... dogs for sport as a child – a common trait in psychopaths The first point makes the fallacious implicit point that Che Guevara was a psychopath. * Imprisoned, forced into hard labor and ...