“This October has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays all in one month. It happens only once in 823 years.” … it’s posted all over the Internet, often with dozens of comments and jokes about how cool it is and how it’s a great month to enjoy the weekend and so on. … Is the average Internet reader so brain-dead that they believe the most egregious garbage if they see it posted on a website? … 99% of people … simply accepted it at face value. What the hell is going on here? … most people are … happy to succumb to “argument from authority.” Basically that means if … Continue reading Doug Stych