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Archive for October, 2009
Sundaily Hilarity: Why The King James Bible Is Superior To Science Books
October 25th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke Daily Hilarity: Kanye or Hitler?
October 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke You could probably quote mine anyone and pull this off but it’s still pretty funny: The comediennes are “Garfunkel and Oates” Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Videos 
Tags: Garfunkel and Oates, Hitler, Kanye West, Kate "Oates" Micucci, Riki "Garfunkel" Lindhome, Stand Up Comedy 
No Comments »Two American Heroes Weigh In On Same-Sex Marriage
October 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This World War II veteran is extremely inspiring: (via the ever-increasingly-awesome blog, SendaiAnonymous) Of course, he’s not the only hero with an opinion on this topic, so it is important to re-air her side too (which we’ve previously featured in full-length presentation): There you have it, two courageous American heroes just with differing views on [...]
Turkey’s Evangelicals?
October 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Turkey’s proudly secular state has a growing element who thinks what the country needs is more religion. For what good? I have no idea: Your Thoughts?
Uganda’s Pending Anti-Homosexuality Bill
October 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke My stomach churned when I read about these cruel and stupid measures involved in Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009, a proposed bill which would: Reaffirm the lifetime sentence currently provided upon conviction of homosexuality, and extends the definition from sexual activity to merely “touch[ing] another person with the intention of committing the act of homosexuality.” [...]
Addressing Religious Friends’ Griefs
October 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Richard Wade’s advice columns at Friendly Atheist are consistently excellent. This week he handles the question of what to say when the grieving religious person remarks that their lost loved one is in a better place when you cannot honestly say that you agree: When the more religious people talk about how the person will [...]
The Consequences Of The Anti-Vaccination Movement
October 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke SendaiAnonymous tips us off to this important article: In certain parts of the US, vaccination rates have dropped so low that occurrences of some children’s diseases are approaching pre-vaccine levels for the first time ever. And the number of people who choose not to vaccinate their children (so-called philosophical exemptions are available in about 20 states, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Anti-Vaccinations, Anti-Vaccine, anti-vaxers, Paul Offit, Pseudoscience No Comments »FOX News’s Fair And Balanced Coverage Of The Obama Presidency
October 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke The epitome of self-parody: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, News Discussion, Politics, Videos Tags: Andrea Tantaros, Andrew Napolitano, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Brett Baier, Brian Kilmeade, Brit Hume, Dick Morris, FOX News, Jesse lee Peterson, Megyn Kelly, Michelle Malkin, Monica Crowley, Neil Cavuto, Newt Gingrich, Reactionary Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Extremism, Right Wing Fear Tactics, Right Wing Politics, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Steve Doocey, Tammy Bruce No Comments »Shermer To Maher: Being Anti-Vaccination Is Tantamount To Being Anti-Evolution
October 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Bill Maher’s mistrust of western medicine has been earning him a lot of flak from the scientific and skeptic communities. Here is the latest, an open letter from Michael Shermer: I believe that when it comes to alternative medicine in general and vaccinations in particular you have fallen prey to the same cognitive biases and [...]
Posted in Biology, Evolution Tags: Anti-Vaccinations, Anti-Vaccine, Bill Maher, Michael Shermer 6 Comments »Good Without God In New York Subways
October 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Great to see the “Good Without God” campaign arrive via subway in my neighborhood now: Atheism Campaign Launches in New York Subways: Coalition of Faithless Advocates Focuses on Increased Secular Awareness The Big Apple Coalition of Reason, a collection of groups that advocate secularism and atheism, has launched a month-long ad campaign in New York [...]
Pat Condell On UN Promotion Of Blasphemy Laws
October 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Islam, Religion, Separation of Church and State, Videos Tags: Blasphemy Laws, Pat Condell, United Nations No Comments »Bishop Spong Releases Manifesto Resolving Not To Legitimize Homophobia By Debating It
October 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Bishop John Shelby Spong holds nothing back in criticizing Christianity’s awful legacy on the treatment of minorities, women, gays, and “heretics”: I have made a decision. I will no longer debate the issue of homosexuality in the church with anyone. I will no longer engage the biblical ignorance that emanates from so many right-wing Christians [...]
Posted in Homophobia, Religion, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism Tags: Bishop John Shelby Spong No Comments »Christendom’s Contribution To Scientific History
October 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke via Your Thoughts?
ZJ On Mormons And Civil Liberties
October 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Everyone should see this video: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Racism, Religion, Religious Rights, Same Sex Marriage, Theocracy, Theocrats Tags: Church of Latter Day Saints, Mormon Opposition To Civil Liberties, Mormon Racism, Mormonism, Mormons, Mormons and Gay Marriage, Mormons and Proposition 8, Religious Extremism No Comments »The Best 7 Minutes, 13 Seconds Of Tom Petty’s Career
October 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke I say this with no exaggeration: I have heard all the albums and hundreds of live concerts many many times and this performance of Refugee from his Take The Highway tour features the most perfect realization of one of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ most perfect songs. It has the fullest and most exciting and [...]
Posted in Music, Music Reviews, Music Videos, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Videos Tags: "Take The Highway", 1991, Guitar Solos, Mike Campbell, refugee No Comments »100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers
October 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Really, really neat for a pointless exercise: Your Thoughts?
What God Hates
October 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Mike Burstein gets out the word about God’s feelings best of all (via David Fine, found on Filipsagnoli). Your Thoughts?
Posted in Hilarious, Parody, Religious Extremism, Religious Satire, Satire Tags: David Fine, Mike Burstein, Westboro Baptist Church No Comments »Nation’s Morons March On Washington State
October 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke The Onion has the full story. Your Thoughts?
Happy Birthday Tom!!!
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Tom Petty turns 59 today! My favorite song of all time as performed three years ago by my favorite band of all time: Interesting tidbit about the centrality of this song in his canon, while he has a number of major hits that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will nearly always play because people come [...]
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Videos Tags: "I Won't Back Down" No Comments »The “#No God” Twitter Trend FAIL
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The de-Convert passes along the story of an amusing atheist twitter “victory”: In a classic case of irony, Christians tried to get the statement “No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace” to trend today on Twitter. The result of this was the phrase “No God” became the #1 trending topic. Please understand that atheists [...]
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Culture and Technology, Pop Culture, Religion Tags: FAIL, Irony, Twitter No Comments »Loving Wives And Loving Countries
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke On Bloggingheads, philosophers Simon Keller and Niko Kolodny dissect love. If you don’t have the hour to watch the whole thing or if you are only interested in one of the subtopics they discuss, below is the set of topics. The time listed next to each topic indicates how long that portion of video runs. [...]
98th Philosophers’ Blog Carnival
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Kenny Pearce has the new Philosophers’ Blog Carnival. There is a link in the upper right corner of his page that says “view with boring colors” in case you find his all green writing on all black background unpleasant. Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Dark Knight 60′s Batman Version
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Pop Culture, TV Tags: 1960s Batman TV Series, Batman, Batman and Robin, Dark Knight, Joker No Comments »
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