A Conversation with Penn Jillette
TheThinkingAtheist
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The Importance of Memories
I used to, you know, reading Houdini and listening to Randy and reading all the Randy's books. I had this intellectual sense that doing the psychic stuff was morally wrong. So strangely, when my mom died, my attacking of psychics came down a little bit because the fun went away. The absolute disrespect you have for the dead to think that you can speak for them. That all became so real. It was quite a horrible moment. They booked me on politically incorrect. And it was a terrible TV appearance,. Because what had been before a smart ass pen making fun of these people doing this silly thing now became a man just sitting there full of hate ... right on the verge
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