The new issue of Skeptical Inquirer reprints Stephen Barrett’s “Analysis of Kevin Trudeau’s ‘Natural Cures’ Infomercial”. It’s like MST3K for skeptics. Stephen just wrote down most of the things I used to sit there yelling at Trudeau on 47 screens on Sunday mornings when I was working at Fox. Good times, those were.
I thought I’d link to it again because a) “Kevin Trudeau” is the number two search term used to find my website (second only to “nautical star tattoos” — and kids, bad idea = getting the new trendy symbol marked on you, because: do you know how long trends last? now, do you know how long tattoos last? compare your answers here…), and b) I still feel irresponsible for having access to a television station’s copy of this bullshit without so much as “misplacing” it when I quit. I feel a little bit better to know that nobody watched anything that station aired except for The 700 Club and American Idol. But somebody managed to get the book out of Walgreens, and I still feel compelled to write at least 47 letters of complaint. Maybe not until I acquire a typewriter and become at least 5% more curmudgeonly. I mean, I’m already curmudgeonly, but not so much that it overcomes my affinity for doing absolutely nothing…
One day I hope to become at least as curmudgeonly (er, pseudo-curmudgeonly) as Ted L. Nancy, Lazlo Toth (Don Novello) or these guys. So far, I have only one cat. I’m aiming to collect at least 27 more.
P.S.
Curmudgeonly.
i hate nautical star tattoos but i’m pretty sure that pistol-on-the-hip tattoos (http://www.luckylotustattoo.com/dawns_pgs/tattoos/bng2/dk_bng2_gun.jpg) and brass knuckle implants (http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/13/subcutaneous_brass_k.html) as the pinnacle of emo/indie/hardcore stupidity.
i think i saw a Typewriter of Curmudgeonation +5 vs. Prodigious Fabulists on ebay once.
i hate nautical star tattoos but i’m pretty sure that pistol-on-the-hip tattoos (http://www.luckylotustattoo.com/dawns_pgs/tattoos/bng2/dk_bng2_gun.jpg) and brass knuckle implants (http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/13/subcutaneous_brass_k.html) as the pinnacle of emo/indie/hardcore stupidity.
i think i saw a Typewriter of Curmudgeonation +5 vs. Prodigious Fabulists on ebay once.
What the Christ?
What the Christ?