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This is from 2007 and I just found that it pops right up when one Googles me. It’s hard for me to watch because it involves watching me. But I figured it might be of interest to others. Forgive the extemporaneousness of it all and enjoy some of the more hilarious hand gestures. (My favorite [...]
Archive for January, 2011
A Video Of Me Rambling About Nietzsche
January 17th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Historical Philosophy, Historical Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Personal, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy 
Tags: Daniel Fincke, John Hazlet, Normativity, Truth, Values 
8 Comments »Sundaily Hilarity: Colbert Sums Up O’Reilly
January 16th, 2011 Daniel Fincke “There must be a God because I don’t know how things work.” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'Bill O’Reilly Proves God’s Existence – Neil deGrasse Tyson www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive PZ Myers quibbles interestingly over Colbert’s decision to [...]
Dan Barker Interviews Dan Dennett About Ministers Who Are Closet Atheists
January 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Christianity, Christianity, Religion, Religion, Videos 3 Comments »Report: Majority Of Money Donated At Church Doesn’t Make It To God
January 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Onion has the shocking story. Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Bill Maher On The Founding Fathers Vs. The Tea Party
January 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bill Maher, Bill Maher, Comedy, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Hilarious, Political Satire, Political Satire, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Satire, Satire, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State No Comments »Michelle Malkin: Treat Atheists As Trolls
January 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke There’s one unstated attitude that makes all this reflexive self-righteousness, galling hypocrisy, and unblinking sense of privilege possible, and it’s “Who Cares About Atheists?” Your Thoughts?
Sickening Hypocrisy: Tweets Wishing Violent Death Upon Sarah Palin
January 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A tip for ending cycles of immorality: never let your moral condemnations themselves be morally condemnable. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Your Thoughts?
Posted in Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Tags: Left Wing Hate Speech, Twitter 2 Comments »Daily Hilarity: Ezra Koenig Vs. The Black Keys On The Colbert Report
January 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This was one of the most geekily glorious things ever: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'MeTunes – Grammy Vote – Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney & Ezra Koenig<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive And, for the record, The Black Keys [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Parody, Parody, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Black Keys, Colbert Report, Ezra Koenig, Grammies, Vampire Weekend No Comments »Camels With Hammers Goes To See The Rural Alberta Advantage
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Tonight, Dave Smith (our trusty Camels With Hammers webmaster) and I will be heading to see the Rural Alberta Advantage live! Here’s their awesome music: Their first album is Hometowns. Their next album comes on March 1 and it’s called Departing. They have already released the song “Stamp”. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Videos No Comments »Indifference To The Facts Of The Case
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Ross Douthat argues that normally an attempted political assassination would have political benefits for the party of the target because of a “rally-round-the-flag” effect but that the left is squandering any of that potential good will with its reaction: violence against elected officials tends to benefit whichever party seems to be targeted —except in cases [...]
Posted in Featured, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Tags: Ross Douthat 1 Comment »Sullivan Sums Up Palin
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I cannot resist reproducing Andrew Sullivan’s post in full, since it so well encapsulates my response to Palin’s speech this morning: The leader of the GOP base has told us a lot today. She has told us two things. She can see absolutely nothing awry in the inflammatory and violent rhetoric she and others have deployed [...]
Denouncing Political Rhetoric Which Is Indistinguishable From The Manifestos Of Paranoid Madmen
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Jon Stewart’s remarks about Tucson two nights ago were poignant, conciliatory, honest, humble, and insightful: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Here he hits the nail on the head: I do think it is a worthwhile goal not to conflate our political [...]
Sarah Speaks
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: “The Saddest Book In The Universe”
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Via AbeBooks. Reminds me of my favorite song and video from my childhood, which has always stuck with me. In this episode of the Muppet Babies the muppet babies overheard Nanny discussing which one from the nursery she was going to get rid of. The horrified muppet babies assumed she was planning to get rid [...]
The Separability Of Metaethics From Questions Of Theism
January 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Earlier today, I argued that atheists cannot duck metaethics challenges from theists (or anyone else) and that we should not respond to such challenges with the knee jerk response that we are being bigotedly assumed to be incapable of moral behavior. I wrote: it is not mere prejudice for theists to demand atheists give an [...]
Posted in Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, God, God, Metaethics, Metaethics, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, Religion 3 Comments »The Pope’s Weaselly Excuses For Church Child Abuse In The ’70s
January 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke On Christmas, the Pope Benedict XVI tried, pathetically, to minimize the Church’s responsibility for the pedophilia scandals: Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Christianity, Featured, Feminism, Feminism, Politics, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI, Rape, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church Tags: Child Abuse, Feminism, Jason Thibeault, Pedophilia, Pedophilia in The Church, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Revolution 19 Comments »James Fallon: Confessions of a Pro-Social Psychopath
January 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Thanks to Dunc, here is a fascinating video of James Fallon, at the World Science Festival: Below the fold is more on the history of the development of the science of psychopathy, including a long segment on Fallon himself, from a much darker toned documentary on the BBC. In the second video below, Fallon explains [...]
English’s Beautiful Specificity
January 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I love that English has a specific word just for someone wearing glasses, bespectacled. Saves us several words on a regular basis. Someone else just suggested to me another one, “defenestrate”, a word for throwing things out of windows. That’s right, throwing things out of windows gets its own word in English. What other highly [...]
Being Personally Moral Is Not Enough, Atheists Need A Coherent Metaethics
January 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Atheists can be as moral as anyone else. When theists imply that atheism by itself entails that people will either likely or necessarily be less moral, they trade in oblivious, self-satisfied, prejudicial thinking which besmirches atheists unfairly. But it is not mere prejudice for theists to demand atheists give an account of their metaethical positions. [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, God, God, Metaethics, Metaethics, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church 8 Comments »10 Most Disingenuous, Cloying, Condescending, And Clueless Things Christians “Sharing The Gospel” Do
January 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This year, addressing primarily Christians, I wrote my Top 10 Tips For Reaching Out To Atheists. Then, addressing atheists, I wrote 10 Tips For Reaching Out To Religious Believers. Now, I just discovered that a couple of years ago Friendly Atheist ran a great list, written by participants in its forums, describing various wince-inducing sales techniques employed [...]
Biblical Scholar Bart Ehrman’s Personal Deconversion + Problems With The Biblical Records
January 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I identify with his personal account in the first two minutes quite a bit: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Religion, Religion, Videos Tags: Bart Ehrman, Biblical Scholarship, Book of Mark, Ending of the Book of Mark 2 Comments »A Compendium Of Important Links About Tucson And About Political Rhetoric
January 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke There is a wealth of stuff out there worth boning up on. This story explains that Giffords is not the only of Palin’s crosshaired candidates to receive vandalism or death threats. Here is a timeline of two and a half years of disturbing, political, gun related statements and behavior coming from the right wing. Bryce [...]
Posted in News, News Discussion, News Discussion, Politics, Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Lee Loughner 3 Comments »Four Interviews Videos With Joe Zambudio, One Of The Heroes From Tucson
January 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The first video is a phone call, the others are videos: Your Thoughts?
Catching Up With Camels With Hammers
January 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke If you are new or if you have missed some days of new Camels With Hammers posts in the last half a year, thanks to some hard work from our webguy, Dave Smith, you can now check the “Dan’s Views” column on the left hand side of the site’s page and see a thoroughly updated [...]
Techniques Meant To “Cure” Homosexuality
January 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke James Voss describes the attempt to “cure” him of his homosexuality he experienced at Teen Challenge, “an Assemblies of God USA evangelical Christian recovery program and a network of Christian social and evangelizing work centers”: People that entered the center with psychological problems were often not allowed to take medications prescribed by doctors since there [...]
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Religion, Religion Tags: Bi-Curious, Butters, South Park 4 Comments »
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