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Michael Voris, who explicitly and unapologetically argued that our democracy should be replaced by a benevolent dictatorship in the form of a Catholic theocracy, recently made another video, advancing a familiar line of reasoning from conservative Catholic theology that homosexuals have been specially chosen by God for their suffering and that they can be a [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Calling The Conservative Catholic’s Bluff On Gay Suffering
October 10th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke Christopher Hitchens At His Most Scathing
October 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
My Perspectivist, Teleological Account Of The Relative Values Of Pleasure And Pain
October 7th, 2010 Daniel Fincke With Sam Harris doing the rounds promoting a utilitarianism that seems to take the pleasures of sentient beings to be the good to be maximized, it’s as appropriate a time as ever to flesh out my objections to prioritizing pleasure and pain as the central goods in life. More specifically, you can read my already [...]
Posted in Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Epistemology, Epistemology, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Metaethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Teleology, Teleology, Virtues, Virtues 
Tags: Genealogy of Morals III:12, Nietzsche's Perspectivism, Pain, Perspectival Knowledge, Perspectivism, Pleasure 
11 Comments »Subjective Valuing And Objective Values
October 6th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In reply to my post a week ago on the incoherence of saying that we relied upon God, or at least religion, in order to either discover or verify what was good and evil, Clergy Guy asks: Daniel, do you have some thoughts on defining good and evil apart from religion? How do we/should we [...]
Can Your Laptop Make You Infertile?
October 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Watch where you put that thing: According to researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, there is a direct correlation between laptop use and increased scrotum temperature. In fact, hot laptops have been found to increase the temperature of scrotums up to 35 degrees above the normal body temperature of 98.6 degrees. [...]
Posted in Culture and Technology, Culture and Technology Tags: Health, Infertility, Laptops No Comments »Under Pressure
October 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Music Videos, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Homeless, Homelessness, Kermit the Frog, Muppets, Novelties, Queen, Under Pressure No Comments »Donald Duck Listens To Glenn Beck In “Right Wing Radio Duck”
October 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Impressively cut together (if a little boring—as it combines two entertainers each with pretty little range): Your Thoughts?
A Question For “The Colored Man” On C-SPAN
October 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke “May I speak now?” “Yes, Ma’am!” “I’m 90 years old and I just wanted to ask the colored man, why don’t colored people instead of seeing what we did to them, why don’t they see what we did for them. They talk about the slavery but since they’ve given welfare, free medicine, free everything.” “Ma’am, [...]
Be Heard, Fellow Adjuncts!
October 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke If you are a non-tenured/non-tenure track instructor or professor of any sort at any American educational institution, please fill out this survey about your working conditions from the Coalition on the Academic Workforce and be sure to pass it on to any under-employed academics you know, including graduate student teachers on fellowships. (via) Your Thoughts?
What It Really Means To Tell Gays To “Resist Their Temptation”
October 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Via Dan Savage, A Christian decodes for his brethren: When you tell a gay person to “resist” being gay, what you are really telling them—what you really mean—is for them to be celibate. What you are truly and actually saying is that you want them to condemn themselves to a life devoid of love. Be [...]
Daily Hilarity: Zuckerberg’s Side Of The Story
October 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Film, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network No Comments »
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