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Archive for August, 2010
Happy 90th Birthday, Ray Bradbury!
August 22nd, 2010 
Daniel Fincke You’ve probably already seen Rachel Bloom’s brilliant and completely NSFW video dedicated to the legendary author (which Bradbury himself reportedly loved and which is available on iTunes, where it’s a huge hit): From Facebook, here is a photo of Bradbury watching the video, thereby “completing Rachel’s life”: Here, she explains his appeal: First of all, the [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire 
Tags: Rachel Bloom, Ray Bradbury 
No Comments »A 90 Minute New Pornographers Video With Soundboard Audio?
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Yes please! Watch the full concert, filmed October 25, 2007 at Webster Hall, on Babel Music. (And buy their terrific new album Together if you haven’t yet!) The rest of the concert is much better than the song they’re offering as a representative clip (which is one of my least favorite in their otherwise illustrious [...]
Posted in Music, Music Tags: Ads, Babel Music, Facebook, Facebook Privacy, New Pornographers, Webster Hall No Comments »This Blog Is Not In Philadelphia
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke I just want to be perfectly clear on that point just in case certain people in Philadelphia are wondering. It’s also worth noting this blog is not a lemonade stand. Just in case similar kinds of people wonder. Your Thoughts?
The Cult Of Christ
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke A well made video about how Christians use some of the same techniques as any other cult leaders: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Religion, Religion Tags: Kirk Cameron, Ray Comfort 2 Comments »Sundaily Hilarity: Proof Of Monkey God
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke It’s about as good as all other arguments for a personal god: Thanks to Linus for the link. Your Thoughts?
Penn & Teller, Assuming The Anti-Vaxers Were Right…
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Concisely and forcefully, they make the point that it’d better to be alive with autism than dead but without it if that were even the choice (which it is not). Or, as Penn puts it: even if vaccination did cause autism, WHICH IT FUCKING DOESN’T, anti-vaccination would still be bullshit Thanks to Sean for the [...]
Posted in Skepticism, Skepticism, Videos Tags: Anti-Anti-Vaccinations, Anti-Vaccination, anti-vaxers, Bullshit, Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette 1 Comment »Roman Catholic Adoption Agency In Britain Not Allowed To Refuse To Place Kids With Gays
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Great news: LONDON (RNS) A Roman Catholic adoption agency has lost its fight for the right to continue its policy of refusing to place children with same-sex couples based on religious principles. The agency, Catholic Care, saw its battle to limit its adoption services to heterosexual-only parents collapse in a ruling Thursday (August 19) by [...]
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: Gay Adoption No Comments »Richard Dawkins: “Faith School Menace?”
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Jerry Coyne relays this truly eye-opening new documentary from Richard Dawkins which aired in the UK last week: Here’s a link (thanks to Johann Hari) for donating to the cause of abolishing state funding of faith schools in the UK. Your Thoughts?
The Evolution Of Jaws
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Archie Comics Prepares To Open The Closet Door Nonchalantly
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Dan Parent, the writer and illustrator of an upcoming Archie comic that will introduce the series’s first openly gay character, explains the approach planned for treating the new character’s sexuality and the philosophy behind it: “To the kids at Riverdale High, Kevin’s sexual orientation is a nonissue, Parent said. ‘Their reaction is very nonchalant.’ It’s [...]
Posted in Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Archie, Archie Comics, Comics, Dan Parent, Jughead, Kevin Keller 1 Comment »Oil From Plastic
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke The video below is extraordinary and hope inducing, here’s the YouTube description: The Japanese company Blest has developed one of the smallest and safest oil-to-plastic conversion machines out on the market today. It’s founder and CEO, Akinori Ito is passionate about using this machine to change the way people around the world think about their [...]
Posted in Culture and Technology, Culture and Technology, Science, Science, Technology, Technology, Videos Tags: Akinori Ito, Blest, Oil, Plastic No Comments »Chomsky: America Has Consistently Opposed Secular Arab Nationalism In Favor Of Religious Fundamentalists
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke If, or to the extent that, this analysis is correct, it’s blood boiling: before 1967, the relationships were not very different from relationships among other powers. There was sympathy and support for Israel, which has many, many sources, including the Christian Zionism, which is a very powerful force that precedes and is numerically far stronger [...]
True Religion?
August 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Many a religious person defending her own religious beliefs will argue that a given politically, morally, or intellectually unflattering interpretation of her faith is simply not a true representation of her faith. While the question of who has the right or the adequate means to decisively determine with any rational clarity which competing interpretation of any [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, History, Judaism, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Pseudoscience, Rationalism, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Science, Science, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats Tags: Literalism, Philosophy of Science, Primitivism, Ronald Dworkin 12 Comments »Heathen Child
August 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Nick Cave’s Grinderman project has a second album coming out this fall a second album coming out this fall and here’s the bizarre video for the first single, “Heathen Child”. Cave has long been drawn to the weird, dark, and outright grotesque within religious ideas and imagery and this weird little song and video epitomize [...]
Hitchens On Crass Responses To The Proposed Ground Zero Islamic Center
August 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Noting the shadiness and creepiness of public remarks by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the plan to build a mosque blocks away from the former site of the Twin Towers, Christopher Hitchens is nonetheless repulsed by the tactics adopted by his opposition. Starting with Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, he writes: [...]
Posted in Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, History, Islam, Islam, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: 9/11 Victims, Abraham Foxman, Andalusia, Cordoba House, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, María Rosa Menocal, mosque, Mosque Near Ground Zero, Newt Gingrigh, Spain, The Ornament of the World, The Weekly Standard 1 Comment »How To Tell People They Sound Racist
August 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Wise advice: Thanks to Feminist Philosophers. Your Thoughts?
Broken Social Scene’s “Meet Me In The Basement”
August 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This amazing instrumental killed live (it was my favorite part of their show) and I love the video: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Meet Me In The Basement", Broken Social Scene No Comments »Prominent Evolutionary Psychologist Marc Hauser Under Investigation
August 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Marc Hauser, whose work on moral psychology from an evolutionary perspective is well known, is going on leave from Harvard after evidence of scientific misconduct has come to light through an internal investigation: The findings have resulted in the retraction of an influential study that he led. “MH accepts responsibility for the error,’’ says the [...]
Daily Hilarity: The Truth About The Moon Landing
August 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke via Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: Moon Landing, Moon Landing Hoax Theories, That Mitchell and Webb Look No Comments »Back In Blog
August 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Thanks everyone for your patience the last nearly four weeks as I have been rarely posting new ideas pieces. I’ve been preoccupied with a short vacation, moving, and then some settling in and taking a few days to do nothing for the first time since finishing the dissertation in the spring. But it’s time to [...]
Dying British Church Prone To Whining
August 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Johann Hari does a little pre-mortem dancing on the foreseeable grave of British Christianity: And now congregation, put your hands together and give thanks, for I come bearing Good News. Britain is now the most irreligious country on earth. This island has shed superstition faster and more completely than anywhere else. Some 63 percent of [...]
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: Johann Hari No Comments »Christopher Hitchens Discusses His Cancer And Thoughts On Religion With Jeffrey Goldberg
August 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Videos Tags: Jeffrey Goldberg, Martin Amis 1 Comment »
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