Finding Tacky Significance
Tuesday / 01.08.08 / 07:43PM / Joe
In the skeptic's game, there's a little something called Finding Significance... which occurs when people convince themselves that the shudder they just felt was the death whisper of their uncle three states away. Or, post-9/11, when everybody was out there adding up the airliner numbers in creative ways to come up with 9s and 11s. Here's an example of Finding Significance to con tourists into buying crap.
You could take any two Presidents, make 'em kiss on a penny, and come up with a list of similarly ASTONISHING "facts" like that. "Both were slain in the presence of their wives!" It's just plain creepy!
Lincoln married a nasty piece of work named Mary Todd! Kennedy did the nasty with Marilyn Monroe! Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and hid in a theater! A theater shot Lincoln from an Oswald and hid in a Booth!
Thirty cents spent in 1988 becomes a cheap weblog entry in 2008! Unbelievable. | 
