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Remember this absolutely hilarious and scathing clip embarrassing Lou Dobbs for saying that there were still questions about Barack Obama’s birth certificate after his network’s own reporters and even his own guest host had declared the issue dead? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Born Identity www.thedailyshow.com Daily [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Did The Daily Show Get Lou Dobbs Fired?
November 12th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, News Discussion, Satire, Videos 
Tags: Barack Obama's Birth Certificate, Jon Stewart, Lou Dobbs, The Daily Show 
No Comments »Lou Dobbs’s CNN Departure Is A Deporting
November 12th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Acting on anonymous tips from within the Hispanic-American community, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Wednesday deported Luis Miguel Salvador Aguila Dominguez, who for the last 48 years had been living illegally in the United States under the name Lou Dobbs. This really explains a lot. In retrospect “Lou Dobbs” has the complete ring [...]
What Does Google Search Tell Us About Moral Philosophy/Moral Psychology?
November 12th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Slate ran a contest called Google Suggest where they asked readers to type in a bit of text into Google’s search engine and see what suggestions the search box gave. Since the suggestions Google offers reflect popular searches from a timeframe specified only as “recent”, the suggested ways to finish sentences that start with the [...]
Posted in Ethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics Tags: Experimental Ethics, Google, Novelties, Search Engine, Slate No Comments »What Did Bill Murray Whisper To Scarlet Johansson? What Happened To Tony Soprano?
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The answers to all our questions about these and other famously ambiguous film endings below: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Your Thoughts?
Matt And Kim In Times Square
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke There’s gotta be some story behind how they made this video… Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Lessons Learned", Matt and Kim No Comments »The Perils Of Unrequited Love
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Richard Wade’s new column is typically sage, this time as he soberly and accurately advises someone who is unrequitedly in love with a friend: When a friend learns that their friend loves them romantically, but they don’t have that kind of love to return, they often feel a tension because of an odd quirk in [...]
Daily Hilarity: Death’s Complaints
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The really funny new Mr. Deity is below. And this time the now regular plea for donations at the end has some moments that are even funnier than the episode. It’s all really hilariously done. Your Thoughts?
The Old Testament Continues To Be An Inspiration
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke …for judging one’s enemy’s children and anyone who has broken religious commandments worthy of death: Just weeks after the arrest of alleged Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, a West Bank rabbi on Monday released a book giving Jews permission to kill Gentiles who threaten Israel. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in [...]
Judge This: NYC’s Anti-Fattening Drinks Ad Campaign
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Saturday on the subway I was enjoying the above poster, as I have numerous times throughout the semester. And in fact, I haven’t just been seeing it on the subways but in my mind whenever I think of sodas now. In fact I’ve had this image in my head since before I saw the ad [...]
Posted in Biology, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Featured, Pop Culture, Psychology Tags: Ads, Health, NYC, Paternalism, Shock Advertising, Soda, Subway Ads 5 Comments »Furry Animal Overloaded With Cuteness
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I’m not even sure what he is but here you go anyway, all you cute animal junkies. Your Thoughts?
A Challenge To Christians To Unqualifiedly Condemn Genocide
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Christians who defend the Old Testament genocides are guilty of either relativistic authoritarianism (anything can be okay as long as God wills it and His will has simply changed from the Old Testament days to the New Testament one) or, possibly worse, theoretical agreement with all the normal justifications of genocide as long as God [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Bible, Christianity, Ethics, Fundamentalism, God, Hypocrisy, Moral Psychology, Morality, New Atheism, Philosophy, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Secularism Tags: Biblical Atrocities, Biblical Genocide, Biblical Violence, genocide, Religious Authoritarianism, Religious Relativism, Religious Violence, ZJemptv 10 Comments »The Belief In God Doesn’t Cause Violence, Only Particular Beliefs About God Do
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In discussing the response to Nidal Malik Hasan, Alonzo Fyfe draws the distinctions just right when he accuses atheists who leap from the act of one kind of theist to associate theism in general with violence as an instance of “The Bigot’s Fallacy”: Many of the people who embrace the Bigot’s Fallacy in this case [...]
Maggie Gallagher Gloats About Maine
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Here’s what she said and below it there’s the scathing, harsh satire of it that expresses what what she stands for really means to the lives of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. I found I needed a strong stomach for both videos but for opposite reasons. The truth in the satire, as incendiarily nasty [...]
Can You Believe Slayer Is Back?
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke And with a kick ass title track for their album World Painted Blood? You can sample the whole album via YouTube.
Lego
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke xkcd, of course. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Applied Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Comic Strips Tags: Compositional Wholes, Legos, Organ Donation, Personal Identity, Unity, xkcd No Comments »Stunning Sand Animation
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This real-time Ukrainian sand animator, Kseniya Simonva has to be seen to be believed. I’ve never seen anything like it. She essentially tells us a story by drawing each step of its progression at a time in real time transforming the same sand into the next portion of the story. It’s truly, truly extraordinary: Once you’ve [...]
2 Musicians Play One Guitar
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This is the most amazingly worthwhile gimmick ever. Who knew that four hands on one guitar could make such great music? The details from the youtube information bar: The 2009 Brazilian Music Institute in Gainesville, Florida featuring CECILIA SIQUEIRA (Uruguay) and FERNANDO LIMA (Brasil) – Duo Siqueira Lima -http://www.duosiqueiralima.com.br/eng… performing Tico Tico no Fuba (Zequinha [...]
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Cecilia Siqueira, Duo Siqueira Lima, Fernando Lima, Novelties, Tico Tico no Fuba, Zequinha de Abreu No Comments »David Vitter Confronted By Rape Victim About His Vote Against Rape Victims’ Rights To Sue Haliburton
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A month ago we highlighted the unconscionable decision of 30 Republican senators to vote against Al Franken’s bill which would assure that those who were raped in connection with their employment at Haliburton’s would have rights to sue Haliburton. In this tense exchange, a rape victim confronts one of those senators, David Vitter. A transcript [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Rape, Right Wing Politics, Videos, Women's Issues Tags: Al Franken, David Vitter, Haliburton, Haliburton/KBR No Comments »Do You Believe In Satan?
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The theologians at The View weighed in on this question last March… I’d like to ask my Christian readers especially—do you believe in Satan? And if so, what do you think Satan is like exactly? And why do you think what you think? Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Pop Culture, Religulous, TV, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Hasselback, Satan, Sherri Shepherd, The View, Whoopi Goldberg No Comments »Let’s Hear It For New York!
November 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Oh how I love this glorious city. I would live here my whole life if I could. Below is a beautifully shot video and achingly catchy anthem from two real New Yorkers. Several times in the last week I’ve watched it over and over consecutively. My favorite thing about it is how authentically New York [...]
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music, Music Reviews, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Empire State Of Mind", Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, New York, Rap No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Taylor Swift’s Saturday Night Live Monologue Song: “Monologue (lalalala)”
November 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So on Saturday night, Taylor Swift went on SNL and performed a really funny song. (The video used to be in this post before NBC took it down from YouTube.) I was really impressed with her comic delivery in numerous respects. She really squeezes all the comedic juice out of a fairly by-the-numbers bit of [...]
Posted in About This Blog, Comedy, Hilarious, Music, Music Videos, TV, Videos Tags: Kanye West, Lost Highway, Monologue Song (lalalala), Saturday Night Live, Taylor Swift No Comments »Brain Powering
November 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke via Daniel Florien comes this fascinating account of the human brain and the energy required to run it: According to Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, a robot with a processor as smart as the human brain would require at least 10 megawatts to operate. That’s the amount of energy produced by a [...]
A Statement Of My Teaching Philosophy
November 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I believe that the best teachers are both rigorous and kind. In terms of rigor, my syllabi are usually demanding in terms of the quantity of philosophers and major topics they cover and the quality of readings that they assign. I give comprehensive exams, demand their writing shows signs of philosophical talent for an A, [...]
Hate Crimes Demonstration: The “YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG!” Edition
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So last month fundamentalists were lying that extending hate crime protections (which already protect religious people to no complaint from anyone, including those so afraid of “thought police”) to gays would result in arrests for anti-gay remarks in sermons. Dan Savage had an ingenious idea for showing the lie that this claim was. The idea [...]
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