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Archive for May, 2008
A Treasure Trove of Polling Information and Analysis of Obama and Clinton’s Chances vis-a-vis McCain
May 27th, 2008 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, News Discussion 
Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, Politics 
No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Senator Tom Coburn’s Editorial About Why The Republicans Are Set Up For A Rout In November
May 27th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Senator Coburn writes, Compassionate conservatism’s starting point had merit. The essential argument that Republicans should orient policy around how our ideas will affect the poor, the widow, the orphan, the forgotten and the “other” is indisputable – particularly for those who claim, as I do, to submit to an authority higher than government. Yet conservatives [...]
Agnosticism or Atheism?
May 26th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Thomas Huxley coined the word agnostic as a play on words. He was a philosopher who was irritated about the metaphysical presumptuousness of the philosophers around him who all seemed to know the secrets of the universe as though they had some special knowledge about things no one can really know about. He compared them, [...]
Posted in Atheism, Metaphysics, Nietzsche, Philosophy Tags: Agnostic, Agnosticism, Early Christianity, Gnostics, Nietzche, Nietzsche, Philosophy, The Existence of God, Thomas Huxley No Comments »Ron Paul Sums Up The Case For Social Libertarianism Succinctly and Hilariously
May 25th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Posted in Hilarious, Uncategorized Tags: Drug War, Libertarianism, Morton Downey Jr. Show, Politics, Ron Paul No Comments »A Great Commencement Speech
May 25th, 2008 Daniel Fincke C-Span has been wonderful tonight. They broadcast the Libertarian Party’s Convention and now they’re showing interesting commencement speeches from around the country. They just finished showing Margaret Edson’s and I think it’s simply a must for teachers and students alike. It meant a whole lot to me. One of the two best commencement speeches I’ve [...]
The Glorious Sound of the Yankee Stadium Crowd Erupting In Applause….
May 19th, 2008 Daniel Fincke when the Mets score over and over again….There are few more satisfying sounds in life than that! Tonight was a good night. The Mets seem to always get crushed on the Yankee Stadium Sunday night game every year, so I was not expecting such a happy game. It just stinks that my man Carlos Delgado [...]
Posted in Mets, Yankees Tags: Baseball, Carlos Delgado, Mets, Subway Series, Yankee Stadium, Yankees No Comments »Lake of Fire
May 19th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Whenever I cover the topic of abortion in my ethics classes, I go to great pains to stress to my students the value of a dispassionate inquiry on the subject. I discourage use of values charged, question begging language of “pro-choice” and “pro-life” and encourage more descriptive language of “pro-abortion rights” or “anti-abortion rights” as [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Atheism, Education, Film, Nietzsche Tags: Nietzsche, Politics No Comments »Hilarity of the Day: Bruce Campbell
May 17th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Click video for a fundamental truth of life.
Posted in Hilarious, Philosophy, Psychology Tags: Bruce Campbell, Old Spice, Philosophy No Comments »Sex: The Horror and The Horrible
May 17th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Teeth Sometimes people disagree about what makes for a horror film. As far as I’m concerned, the definitive feature of the genre is that it deals with frightening transgressions of nature and of morality. Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Teeth is horror that situates itself purely in terms of this defining characteristic. The horror is not in the [...]
This Song Mesmerizes Me
May 15th, 2008 Daniel Fincke I have a weakness for women who know how to sing with some personality, even if they’re singing really poppy stuff. I don’t know if there is a word for the way she sings the words “heart” and “fall” in this song but it makes my heart flutter it’s so beautiful and cool.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers As Metaphor For The Excellent Nietzschean Soul
May 15th, 2008 Daniel Fincke In reply to my review of Peter Bogdanovich’s film about Tom Petty Running Down a Dream , “Lizzie B” over at the Tom Petty message board points out an oversight in my review. She astutely observes: Something you didn’t touch on that really stood out to me in the film is Tom Petty’s shrewd sense [...]
The Future of Nietzschean Ideas
May 15th, 2008 Daniel Fincke From a reader (and old friend) in Pittsburgh: I see you have a blog. Sweet! If I can find the time, I will try to make vintage blog-style drive-by comments; complete with the requisite cynicism, pettiness, ad hominem smears, and (most necessary of all) appalling grammar befitting the beneficiary of a bona fide public school [...]
Hilarity of the Day: Flight of the Conchords
May 15th, 2008 Daniel Fincke This makes me laugh so hard:
Why The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Is My Favorite Film
May 14th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Michel Gondry’s masterpiece The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, following Charlie Kaufman’s masterpiece script, is one of the most top to bottom brilliant achievements in film I have ever seen. Taken as a science fiction film, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ranks as a model for the genre. The film takes a [...]
Daily Hilarity: An Instant Classic Parody of O’Reilly by Colbert
May 14th, 2008 Daniel Fincke And be sure not to miss all these reporters gone wild, they’re hilarious (if you find people losing their temper over petty things hilarious) And at least O’Reilly has a sense of humor about it http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/oreilly-tries-to-laugh-of_n_101832.html
The Next Six Months Will Induce Much Wincing
May 14th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Andrew Sullivan posts an e-mail from one of his readers: I live in SD and I am a candidate for the State House. I was out walking my district last month and spoke to a woman about the primary. She has a statue of the Virgin Mary in her front yard and was wearing several [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Atheism, Barack Obama Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, Barack Obama, Politics No Comments »The Six Degrees Of Jeremiah Wright
May 14th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Well, now it turns out that anyone that Barack Obama endorses is magically endorsed by Jeremiah Wright. By November’s time it is the Republican party’s wish that not only Barack Obama is equated with any one he’s ever been associated with in any capacity but that pretty much every Democrat who aligns him or herself [...]
What Should Matter More To Superdelegates? The Popular Vote or the Pledged Delegates?
May 14th, 2008 Daniel Fincke As the Democratic primary season is winding down, Barack Obama has an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates. Because of the nature of this lead the race is being declared over and done with in his favor. It makes a lot of sense to think that if the superdelegates were to overturn a clear mandate for [...]
Rough Sketches of Nietzsche’s Politics and Philosophy of Religion
May 12th, 2008 Daniel Fincke What follows are a couple of replies to questions sent to me by a student this semester about Nietzsche’s views on politics and religion. While not definitive or thoroughly sourced discussions of Nietzsche’s thoughts on politics and religion, I think the sketches of Nietzsche’s positions as I formulated them in these replies have some promise. [...]
Posted in Atheism, God, Metaphysics, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Spinoza Tags: Eternal Recurrence, Julian Young, Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion, Pantheism, Philosophy, Politics, Spinoza No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Larry Wilmore Goes To Sylvia’s
May 12th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Well, I don’t know if I’ll get around to this daily. But as often as I can come across the truly hilarious, I hope to pass it on. To kick off this new feature on this new blog, I give you one of my all time favorite bits from my favorite current Daily Show correspondent, [...]
Meet The “Petty Kid”
May 12th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Mike Monelscachi is Tom Petty’s biggest teenaged fan. Over on Tom’s messageboard (and in his high school he says) he’s known affectionately as “Petty Kid” (which, incidentally, I think would make an awesome band name for him). He’s cutting a record and here are three of his songs. I’m seriously impressed after all this time [...]
Peter Bogdanovich’s “Running Down A Dream”
May 12th, 2008 Daniel Fincke [written October 24, 2007] One of the reasons that great art means so much to us is because we find ourselves reflected and expressed in it, even when it is other people’s creations. For a long while now, I have figured out the formula to really understanding my mind and my heart for anyone interested. [...]
Posted in Film, Music, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tags: Music, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers No Comments »“Therapeutic Projection” or “How Lars and the Real Girl Made Me Cry”
May 12th, 2008 Daniel Fincke Yeah, it was embarrassing. The eyes got all leaky a few times. Had to get my sleeve up to try to get rid of the evidence and get my composure. Lars and the Real Girl ends a streak of frustrations for me at the theater [this was written October 28,2007] and was the first film [...]
What’s In A Name?
May 12th, 2008 Daniel Fincke An article from the Desert Sun reports that Tom Petty bashed his album Echo, one of my favorites of his, with the following comment, He’s less enamored with 1999′s “Echo,” which opens with the grim “Room at the Top,” “one of the most depressing songs in rock history,” Petty says, grinning. “If anything will make [...]
Posted in Music, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tags: Music, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers No Comments »
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