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Apparently this is a vintage 27 second TV spot for an actual 1960′s exploitation film: via postbourgie (which also has a good post on the cop video from earlier). Your Thoughts?
Archive for June, 2010
My Baby Is Black!
June 19th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Film, Racism, Unintentional Comedy 
Tags: Exploitation Films, Interracial Dating 
No Comments »How Not To React To Gay People
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke From Craigslist (in a post has since been flagged and taken down, so I’m glad I took the liberty of reproducing it unedited here), comes a humorous lesson in the form of a likely apocryphal story: A mutual friend of ours threw a big party for her 30th birthday, tons of people were there and [...]
Pakistani Police Investigating Mark Zuckerberg On Charges Of Blasphemy From Lawyer
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In response to “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day”: Last month, according to English-language Pakistani newspaper The News International, a Pakistani High Court judge summoned the police after lawyer Muhammad Azhar Siddique filed an application for a First Information Report (FIR), claiming that the owners of Facebook had committed a heinous and serious crime under Section 295-C of [...]
Judge This: Cop Responds To Push With Punch
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The YouTube description provides the following context: It all started when a cop stopped a man for jaywalking. Things escalated quickly from there as voices were raised and a crowd gathered. When two young women intervened an onlooker pulled out his camera phone and started to roll tape. The altercation took place yesterday on Martin Luther [...]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali At The Ottowa International Writer’s Festival
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An interview from June 10 with the author of Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations: Click through the video to see all 5 parts. Your Thoughts?
An Awareness Test
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Keep your eye on the ball: You Are Not So Smart has more on the phenomenon of Inattentional Blindness. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Hilarious, Psychology, Videos Tags: Awareness, Cognition, Illusions, Perception No Comments »Multicultural Human Rights
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Johann Hari makes the argument that we have the right to stand up for the rights of those in other cultures without fear that we are not “multicultural” enough: Should you shut up about human rights abuses because they are happening far away, to people you don’t know, who have a different culture or colour [...]
The Asian Sex Trade
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke “The sex trade now accounts for 14% of Thailand’s economy.” Your Thoughts?
Posted in News, Sex, Videos, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: Cambodia, Sex Trade, Thailand No Comments »Some Suspicions About The Superiority Of Liberal Moral Values
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Earlier today, I drew attention to Greta Christina’s article formulating some ideas she picked up from Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. If you have already read either or both of those posts, you can just skip the next two paragraphs meant to catch up new readers. The Goldstein/Greta Christina argument built off of Jonathan Haidt’s theory of [...]
Posted in Authority, Autonomy, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Featured, Hypocrisy, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Prejudice, Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Sciences, Sociobiology, Sociology, Teleology, Virtues Tags: Conservative Values, Flourishing, Greta Christina, Hierarchy, Impartiality, In-group Loyalty, Jonathan Haidt, Liberal Values, Loyalty, Moral Modules, Moral Universalism, Purity, Rebecca Goldstein, Universalism No Comments »Penn Jillette On Tolerant Christians, Faith, And Media Bias
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke From Vanity Fair: I think that said more about the Islamic group that made death threats against Trey and Matt than it does about Comedy Central. I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you’re afraid to say anything because they’ll hurt you. As opposed to other [...]
Ibrahim Al-Buleihi, Former Saudi Shura Council Member, Defends Learning From The West
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Ibrahim Al-Buleihi on Al-Aabiya TV on February 26, 2010: And here he argues that terrorism is the product of a flaw in Arab and Muslim culture: This is the product of our culture. They are the product of a culture that believes the other does not deserve to live, and is an absolute enemy with [...]
Louisiana To Require Ultrasounds Before Abortions
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke It was a unanimous 79-0 vote: Women seeking abortions in Louisiana will be required to get an ultrasound first, even if they are a victim of rape or incest, under a bill that received final legislative passage Wednesday. The bill by Democratic state Sen. Sharon Broome of Baton Rouge was sent to the governor’s desk [...]
Are Liberal Values Objectively Better Than Conservative Ones?
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In recent years, Jonathan Haidt has been influentially arguing that there are five essential modules in the mind from which human moral concerns originate. He has made this claim in several places, most prominently among philosophers in his contribution to Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity (from Walter Sinnott-Armstrong’s groundbreaking [...]
How The Texas Textbook Standards Got Corrupted
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke People For The American Way have an analysis of the process by which Texas’s textbook standards became tools for rewriting history according to a contemporary right wing religious political viewpoint. Here are just a few glimpses of the changes, both those merely proposed and those actually accepted by the school board, which I had not [...]
Jennifer Michael Hecht On The History Of Doubt And Atheism
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Here is Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson at Hampshire College in 2007 discussing the the wrote the complicated history of doubt and atheism: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, History, Secularism, Skepticism, Videos Tags: Doubt, History of Atheism, History of Doubt, Jennifer Michael Hecht No Comments »Should Government Promote “Faith-Based Interventions” In Prisons And Probation?
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Naomi Phillips, the British Humanist Association’s Head of Public Affairs, argues “no”: The Labour government’s policy was actively to promote “faith-based interventions” in prisons and probation. This was not just to supplement state-provided secular services, but amounted to a policy of commissioning religious organisations to provide those services within the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). This [...]
YouTube’s Margaret Stewart Explains Their Approach To Copyright
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Margaret Stewart explains how rights identification is allows copyrighted videos uploaded by users to be accepted or rejected by the rights owners and makes the pitch to rights holders to let their material get uploaded onto YouTube: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Culture and Technology, Law, Videos Tags: Copyright, Margaret Stewart, Youtube No Comments »Emotional Rollercoaster Relationships Harder On Young Men Than Young Women
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A study of 1,000 men and women ages 18-23, “Nonmarital Romantic Relationships and Mental Health in Early Adulthood” by Robin Simon and Anne Barrett, finds that young men benefit more from a romantic relationship going well and suffer worse from the strain of a bad one, whereas young women benefit more from simply being in [...]
Posted in Love, Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology Tags: Romantic Relationships, Young Men, Young Women No Comments »David Chalmers On “The Singularity”
June 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke What happens when machines get smarter than humans? Presumably, they will build machines smarter than themselves which will build machines smarter than themselves and onward towards infinity. Philosophy Bites interviews David Chalmers, a leading philosopher of mind, about the concept and its possible realization. Thanks to 3QuarksDaily for the heads up. Your Thoughts?
Is This What Lesbian Wedding Vows Might Sound Like?
June 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke By Kirk Anderson, via United Atheist Front Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Comic Strips, Homosexuality, Judaism, LGBTQAA, Same Sex Marriage No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Your Guide To Internet Dating And Terminology
June 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Culture and Technology, Hilarious, Parody, Videos Tags: Internet, Internet Dating, MisterSharp, Social Networking No Comments »Paris Bans A “Sausage And Wine” Protest Of Muslims Who Close Down Roads By Praying In The Streets
June 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke From Reuters’s FaithWorld blog: A giant “sausage and wine” party planned later this week in a Paris neighbourhood with many Muslim residents risks sparking disturbances and will therefore be banned, police in the French capital announced on Tuesday. The event, announced on the social networking site Facebook late last month (see page here in French), [...]
Bad Science In The Gulf
June 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Rachel Maddow warns that the Obama Administration is ignoring scientific opinion about the way to rebuild the Gulf: Your Thoughts?
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