At the risk of responding to a letter that was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, because if it's not, it joins the original article in the gibberish department......

"If Quantum Physics proves we can change matter (energy) with our thoughts and focus, it's not too far of a stretch to consider that a person's consciousness could potentially influence their physical body."

Yes, I suppose that if quantum physics did prove such a thing, then we might have to take face-reading seriously. But quantum physics proves no such thing. Quantum physics in no way suggests that one can change matter with thoughts. Such a belief, if it were truly held, would arise from a complete misunderstanding of such physics, and the same kind of pseudo-scientific thought that seeks to give face-reading legitimacy.

To understand that the tooth fairy is a fantasy is not closed minded.

Robob,

My degree is in a hard-science, and I make my living as a scientist. Can I tell you what science is? ;-)

....that this piece is drawing such invective, at least from me, are that:

1) there are people who actually believe this crap. A piece like this merely encourages them, and the results of that are seldom good. On the red side of the divide, distorting or denying science has become a method of choice for justifying a host of evils.

2) There are oftentimes assertions made in Salon - about Government surveillance, unconstitutional government actions, various acts of malfeasance by government officials, that seem incredible. Puff piece or not, if Salon gives any credence at all to a practice so out of touch with reality, then it strains the credibility of their other, more serious, pieces. I would have had no trouble with this piece, if there had been some kind of credible viewpoint presented that face-phrenology does, in fact, have no more scientific validity than does voo-doo.

3) It's always a bad idea to promote ignorance of reality (OK, maybe not always, but usually ;-).

By the way, I actually do happen to find primate poo throwing to be inherently humorous. I will admit that it is at its funniest when the primate is a homo sapiens, or at least an animated version of one (e.g. Ms. Garrison).

RoBob: we're good ;-)

The best comment I ever heard was by some comedian (Dane Cook?).

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a jet ski!"

...does anyone believe these bozos when they claim that they didn't know what they were doing?

Actually, I was almost ready to give him the benefit of the doubt, until I saw the image of the "food stamp". Alex forgot to mention the Kool Aide. What are the chances that out of all the choices of "just food" they could have used, they picked fried chicken, ribs, watermelon and Kool Aide? None. These foods were chosen for illustration because they hark back to old stereotypes, period.

Don't you get it? John McCain's negative advertising is all Obama's fault for not agreeing to 10 town hall meetings!

...every time I hear McCain go on about how Democrats are looking to foment class warfare. Class warfare has been alive and well for the past many years in this country as wealth is increasingly concentrated among fewer and fewer people at the top of the income/wealth scale. For Republicans to go on about supposed Democratic class warfare is just more of the same doublespeak and hypocrisy we've been subjected to for the past 8 years.

under my calculation, "Bob the Banker" would pay $100 more in taxes under Obama. Yes,indeed,the country is headed straight for communism! ;-)

That'll teach me to read the second page of an article before I fly off and write a letter! Good job Gary. You had me going.

Satire at its finest.

Nobody got all that upset when Tina Fey made fun of Sarah Palin's disability ;-)

I'd be happy to spank her without expectation of intercourse. As long as i got to see her naked ;-). Just be honest about what you want, and you can find it.

;-)

Why would Obama have baklava and weinerschnitzel with the terrorists? Those are Greek and German foods. Gasp! Maybe he'll eat lutefisk with them too!

As practiced by the republicans, bipartisanship apparently means "do things our way".

When they were in office, they called the democrats obstructionists and worse, and now that they are not, they call for bipartisanship, but then when the chance comes for them to practice it, they unanimously decline.

I think we should suck their brains out with straws, sell the widows and go into South American zinc.

Tell your husband to hang his own damned clothes is he wants them air-dried. If this is really about the cause, he'll do it.

I think that Annie Savoy had the perfect solution: Should it happen that you call out one of your crushes name, simply ask your boyfriend if he'd rather have you sleeping with him and calling someone else's name, or the other way around? ;-)

I hate this kind of "apology". It's like when the airline apologizes "if you have been inconvenienced" when they have stranded you in some far-away airport overnight. There is no acknowledgement that they screwed up, only if you somehow find this inconvenient.

Murdoch is 'apologizing' not for running an offensive cartoon, but rather for your being offended. You, know, if you were unreasonable enough to find that cartoon offensive, then he is sorry you are so sensitive.