Comments on: Arrested for punching psychic, Lindsay Lohan becomes instant Skepticism movement hero

By: Tony Bannister

Tony Bannister — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:33:00 +0000

I’m a skeptic, and stupid violent actions like Lohan’s do nothing to further the cause. Not in my name! As has been said above, I very much doubt she was motivated by skepticism – more likely, cocaine and alcohol. She probably just punched whoever was nearest.

By: Jon Peterson

Jon Peterson — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:32:00 +0000

I have yet to see a skeptic actually cheering her on. Most are sighing and shaking their heads in confusion over how they somehow got connected to a drugged-out waste of life using physical violence… especially since the story seems to imply Lohan was angry at that individual psychic and it had nothing to do with the victim’s profession.

By: SeekerLancer

SeekerLancer — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:21:00 +0000

Skeptics shouldn’t be “cheering on” anyone for punching somebody out, fraud or not. Proving somebody fraudulent is what should earn praise, not violently lashing out.

I doubt Lohan’s motivation was based on skepticism as well.

By: dculberson

dculberson — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:04:00 +0000

Not the hero we want, but the hero we deserve.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 05:59:00 +0000

No no fuck that, make them leave… Earth is the only planet with chocolate.

By: John Maple

John Maple — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:23:00 +0000

You win. Yea!

By: John Maple

John Maple — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:21:00 +0000

Well, at least no cats were hurt, I think.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:45:00 +0000

It’s all fun and games until she comes to your house and steals your jewelry.

By: benher

benher — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:37:00 +0000

“I imagine a lot of their fans think that “catfights” between women are HAWT”
Chemical castration for all!

By: benher

benher — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:36:00 +0000

“intoxicated … cocaine, punches psychic”

How is she a hero you ask? How is she not!

By: elusis

elusis — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:48:00 +0000

Well, if it’s against a woman, Dawkins will just tell the victim to go cry about it and be glad she’s not wearing a hijab or undergoing FGM.

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:21:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU

Despite my general pacifism, I for one wouldn’t find it too bad a thing if ‘belting offensive wackjobs in the chops is okay’ was cemented in society’s mores…

By: gijoel

gijoel — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:56:00 +0000

Or “adjusting your aura.”

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:26:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpPx1WGYwAE

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:11:00 +0000

Like most addicts, she relies not so much on strength as on scrappiness.

By: Jellodyne

Jellodyne — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:10:00 +0000

Lohan might have just as easily punched a chemical engineer or particle physicist, were there any present. Fortunately, there was just a psychic.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:52:00 +0000

As someone who regularly goes online, I’m extremely bummed out that the psychic didn’t nuke her from orbit.

By: Origami_Isopod

Origami_Isopod — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:22:00 +0000

Oh, ffs. No, I don’t think it’s awesome that Lindsay Lohan punched a psychic. And having contempt for psychics doesn’t make me a Dawkins or Shermer fan… though, given how sexist both Dawkins and Shermer are, I imagine a lot of their fans think that “catfights” between women are HAWT

By: smut clyde

smut clyde — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:57:00 +0000

What mood was the psychic in?
Lohan was only trying to strike a happy medium.

By: jimh

jimh — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:03:00 +0000

In all fairness, LL probably would have punched anyone who entered her field of vision, regardless of their belief in woo.

By: Vengefultacos

Vengefultacos — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:28:00 +0000

Maybe Lohan was just convinced the woman was a knuckle reader, rather than a palm reader…

By: Jeff Adler

Jeff Adler — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:14:00 +0000

Psychics should forget about disclosure, and keep what they learn of Karmic pitfalls to themselves.

By: lafave

lafave — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:10:00 +0000

I’ll side-eye anyone who holds Lohan in esteem.

By: Malcolm Tecumseh Rutherford

Malcolm Tecumseh Rutherford — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:06:00 +0000

Not “your” hero, obviously. Everyone has different heroes for different reasons.

By: lafave

lafave — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:55:00 +0000

Apparently there was a joke, other than, I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas, that I didn’t get.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:52:00 +0000

As a pretty ardent skeptic myself I’m actually tempted to pay Lindsay Lohan to claim she’s a psychic.

By: Spieguh

Spieguh — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:51:00 +0000

Oh won’t someone think of the psychics!?

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:50:00 +0000

What about the strength of her guns?

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:45:00 +0000

Florida ‘psychics’, boy band members, coked out tabloid celebs…

It’s too bad it didn’t turn into a chain of mutual sucker-punchings….

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:38:00 +0000

Don’t think of it as a “sucker punch.” Think of it as “speed-reading.”