A thin and feeble candle –

There’s something utterly compelling about a new ‘blog – and intimidating, honestly.  Here stands the ultimate in unlimited white canvas, where all the content is ultimately produced, offered, fixed, shoved, and mangled by one single author (sometimes a group, but I’m not that insane yet) in some small effort to offer something productive and useful on the morass that is the ‘net.

And I said all that without taking a breath.  Aren’t you impressed?

This ‘blog, however, is a little different.  It exists because of outrage.  Anger.  Pure annoyance and snarliness that grows worse and worse as I grow older.  Like Don Quixote, I am setting out to tilt at a massive windmill.. one that others have tilted at before, and with limited success.  Luminaries like James Randi and modern masters like Brian Dunning – you’ll see their links to the right – have made entire careers out of trying to show people what I’m setting out to show people, and I have no basis for believing in success where they’ve failed.

What makes me different, however … well.  

I’m a businessman, not a scientist.  I’m a pedagogue, not a magician.  I am a normal schlub like everyone else, one who’s watched too many people get sucked in (as I have, once or twice!) by unspported promises from unscrupulous people, or .. worse.. the dupes of those people who promise everything for nothing at all.

And I’m tired of it.

I’m tired of cheats, tired of scams.  I’m tired of people who take advantage of the trust of others – and you know?  I’m ready to do my part to take them down.

So – that’s what this weblog is.  It’s some small attempt to expose, decry, batter, break and ultimately end the scams you face every day.  If we didn’t give ‘em money… well.  There’d be no point.

So welcome.  Feel free to come in, feel free to spread the word if it is even somewhat helpful.  Above all?  Listen to everyone, and question everything.  It’ll keep your wallet fatter, if nothing else.

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