"The more I scream they will laugh and do it again... my screams all in vain." – Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes

Here is your Zen green-tea liqueur and your Enlightenment Visa card. Go forth and levitateAh, Zen. Sweet little name. Delightful and austere and hugely, strangely, wildly overexposed subset of lovely Buddhist philosophy and also of course the pseudo-slogan/catchword of a thousand products and attitudes and cliches strewn all over American pop culture, T-shirts to coffee mugs to wall calendars, pretty much the epitome and the poster child of the excessive and slightly annoying hyper-Westernization of Eastern spirituality. Well, except for maybe Tantra.

Once the symbol for inspiration or a eureka moment, the incandescent lightbulb has taken on a whole new iconic status - that of public enemy number one in the battle against climate change.

Fallacy Files Weblog Archive: October, 2007Q: There's a speaker coming to my college, who, if I read the excerpts of his work correctly, argued that math cannot be objective because most mathematicians were white. Regardless of whether I actually read the piece right, the similar argument that science cannot be objective because most scientists are male is one that I've certainly heard before, and decided to try to look it up on your site. I'm curious, it seems like this ought to be a distinct sort of fallacy, but I'm not sure what exactly. It seems to be a combination of ad hominem and conclusion not following from premise. I was wondering whether it has a special sort of name?