Writer bullshits four "psychics," all four just make excuses.

[Warpy]

1. "Crystal ball buster"

is what professional psychics call skeptics who call up with false information, trying to catch them in fabrications. Since that requires absolutely no real effort, I haven't bothered to join them. It's just too easy.

As it is, most professional psychics are masters at weaseling information out of people and then feeding it back to them in forms they want to hear. They might provide a service for the chronically uneasy, cheaper than psychiatry and less drastic than drugs. I have no problem with allowing them to continue to do what they do as long as it doesn't turn into outright extortion--pay me a thousand dollars now and I'll exorcise the demon or your family will die. The 900 number phone psychics are fairly benign when it comes to that sort of thing.

Face it, this is a pretty sick culture and people who are overworked and underpaid can be very lonely. Telephone psychics provide them with a sounding board that should be provided by friends and family, were they not all working just as many hours.

Were this country to shove the conservatives out of government and back to their silly churches, raise wages, lower hours, and promote the general welfare, most psychics would have to go out and get real jobs because they wouldn't be needed any more.