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July 18th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Comic Strips, Comic Strips, Homophobia, Homophobia, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire 
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July 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Trevor Jimenez’s animated slice of noir: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Film Tags: "Key Lime Pie", Animated Shorts, Animation, Noir, Short Films, Trevor Jiminez 1 Comment »Barry Schwartz’s Urgent Call For Practical Wisdom
July 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I love how he sums up Aristotle’s notion of practical wisdom, to paraphrase, “practical wisdom is about having a moral will and a moral skill”. The entire talk is a great defense of wisdom, the skill of moral judgment, against cultural overemphases on bureaucratic reliance on rules at the expense of all thinking: Schwartz’s books [...]
Posted in Ethics, Ethics, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Philosophy, Virtues, Virtues No Comments »How Did American And British Accents Diverge?
July 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Common ancestry surprises are not just for species: Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents? The answer surprised me. I’d always assumed that Americans used to have British accents, and that American accents diverged after the Revolutionary War, [...]
Posted in History Tags: American Accents, American History, British Accents, British History No Comments »Man Is No Longer The Only Featherless Biped: The Cat Has Evolved
July 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Behold our new peer upon the Earth: I think this momentous moment in animal history would be a bit better served with a little Also Sprach Zarathustra, but, alas, you still got the point. No, actually, on second thought, I take that back. You don’t and can’t get the point without the Also Sprach Zarathustra. [...]
Happy Birthday Mom!!!
July 16th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I have the best mom in the world. Sorry everybody else. From the time I was little until today, I have never for a millisecond had to doubt or worry about my mother’s love for me. I am sure that without my ever having to think about it or consciously reference it, her love forms [...]
Moral Psychologist Joshua D. Greene and Experimental Philosopher Joshua Knobe
July 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Below is a great dialogue between Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene and Yale “experimental philosopher” Joshua Knobe laying out some of the basics of moral psychology. I took notes as I watched the video, summarizing the major points for myself and for your use, dear blogreader. It will be easier to just watch the video, of [...]
Posted in Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology Tags: Metaethics, Philosophy No Comments »Qualia Soup On Skewed Views Of Science
July 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An old Qualia Soup video I missed in the past. Thanks to Critical Thinker for the heads up. Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: The Homosexual Menace
July 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The genius who last fall warned us of “The Perils of Lesbianity” now provides a crucial public service announcement about the male homosexual menace: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire No Comments »ProfMTH Pwns William Lane Craig Over Ignorant Demand For “Strict Constructionism”
July 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Law, Law, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: 1st Amendment, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, Justice Antonin Scalia, ProfMTH, Strict Constructionism, William Lane Craig No Comments »How Did Rational Arguments Persuade You Out Of Belief?
July 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke One often hears the dubious claim that rational arguments cannot persuade any one to abandon their religious beliefs or their religious faith traditions. I find when people perpetuate this idea they are usually trying to stop a debate that they find uncomfortable. Sometimes people dismiss the possibility of rational persuasion in matters of belief because [...]
Former Daily Show Head Writer And Executive Producer
July 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Hemant Mehta interviewed David Javerbaum, author of What to Expect When You’re Expected: A Fetus’s Guide to the First Three Trimesters, and departing head writer and executive producer of the The Daily Show. His thoughts on Jon Stewart being named in polls as “America’s Most Trusted Newscaster”: I think he and I would both agree that [...]
Posted in Friendly Atheist Tags: David Javerbaum, Hemant Mehta, Media, Media Criticism, The Daily Show No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Are We God’s One And Only?
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In response to the attention I brought to the great comic strip about “The Four Horsemen” earlier tonight, The Vicar recommends this great comic strip, Head Doctor Productions, from Daniel B. Willingham: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comic Strips, Comic Strips, God, God, Hilarious, Religious Satire, Religious Satire Tags: Daniel B. Willingham, Head Doctor Comics No Comments »Steven Pinker And Adam Gopnik Debate Darwin
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Biology, Biology, Evolution, Evolution, Science Tags: Adam Gopnik, Charles Darwin No Comments »The Four Horsemen Of Atheism In Comic Book Form
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke There are many similarly amusing comics at Virus Comix. And to compare with real life, here’s their full 2 hour video together from a couple years back: Your Thoughts?
France To Ban Burqa-Like Veils
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke EuroNews.net writes: A law banning the wearing of a full Islamic veil in public in France has been adopted by the lower house of parliament. The ruling UMP and the New Centre party voted for the ban on the burqa or niqab while the Socialists, Communists and Greens abstained. The law goes to the upper house in [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Feminism, Feminism, Free Speech, Free Speech, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, News, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Women's Issues, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Burqa Ban, France, French Burqa Ban, Veil No Comments »“Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” Advocates Under Threat
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The New York Daily News reports: A CHARISMATIC terror leader linked to the botched Times Square car bomb has placed the Seattle cartoonist who launched “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day” on an execution hit list. Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki – the radical who has also been cited as inspiring the Fort Hood, Tex., massacre and the [...]
Richard Dawkins On How Atheism Is Not A Fundamentalism
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
“Mickey Mouse Jesus” Gets Art Curators Convicted Of Inciting Religious Hatred In Moscow
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The LA Atheism Examiner reports: Two art curators, Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev, were convicted Monday by a Moscow court of “inciting religious hatred’ for putting on an exhibet called “Forbidden Art” in 2007. A Mickey Mouse Jesus, a Coca Cola Christ with the slogan “this is my blood” and a Christ on the cross [...]
Posted in Arts, Christianity, Christianity, Free Speech, Free Speech, Jesus, Jesus, Law, Law, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Satire Tags: Andrei Yerofeyev, Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyanksy, Blasphemy Laws, Gleb Yakunin, Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse Jesus, Russian Orthodox Church, Yuri Samodurov No Comments »FOX News’s Judge Andrew Napolitano: Bush And Cheney Should Be Indicted (And Lambasts Obama Too)
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A great interview with Ralph Nader: Napolitano’s new book, in which he discusses all these issues, is Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History. Thanks to Aram for the link. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Law, Law, Law & Politics, News Discussion, News Discussion, Politics, Politics, Videos Tags: After Words, Andrew Napolitano, C-Span, Habeus Corpus, Ralph Nader, Thurgood Marshall, Torture No Comments »Goodbye George Steinbrenner, From A Devout Mets Fan And Yankees Hater
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I speak only for myself and not for all of those committed to both loving the Mets and hating the Yankees, when I say, George Steinbrenner was the best enemy any baseball fan could have. His contributions to the sport were monumental and for the best. He raised the standards of economic and athletic competition [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Baseball, Mets, Mets, Yankees, Yankees Tags: Competition, George M. Steinbrenner III, George Steinbrenner, Rivalry No Comments »Towards Atheistic Religions (Or Away From Them, Depending On How You Define “Religions”)
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In a rare occurrence, I am being taken to task for giving religion too much credit and atheists too little! Here are the offending paragraphs I wrote on Friday: I would say that various practices called religious, if stripped of all their dogmatism, traditionalism, literalism, and authoritarianism, can and do certainly coexist with and complement science [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Authority, Christianity, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism No Comments »Love, Polygamy, And Arranged Marriage In The Tanzanian Maasai Tribe
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Cultural variation is amazing: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Ethics, Feminism, Love, Social Psychology, Sociology, Women's Rights, Women's Issues Tags: Africa, Arranged Marriage, Maasai Tribe, Marriage, Polygamy, Tanzania No Comments »
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