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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 [...]
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Archie Comics Prepares To Open The Closet Door Nonchalantly
August 22nd, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Pop Culture, Pop Culture 
Tags: Archie, Archie Comics, Comics, Dan Parent, Jughead, Kevin Keller 
1 Comment »Stephen Fry On “Big Think”
July 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An hour with Stephen Fry: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Videos Tags: Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry No Comments »Penn Jillette On Magic, Atheism, And Libertarianism
July 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A really enjoyable video, especially for his remarks on magic, other magicians, and why magic on TV isn’t real magic. And I really appreciated his stress on the importance of having “out” atheists to identify with. In his case he discusses being joyed, inspired, loved, and comforted by having famous atheists like Martin Mull, Randy [...]
Posted in Arts, Arts, Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Cutural Criticism, Cutural Criticism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Politics, Politics, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Religion, Religion, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Videos Tags: Libertarianism, Magic, Penn and Teller, Penn Jillette, Tolerance No Comments »Steamboat Willie
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Animation, Classic Animation, Disney, Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie No Comments »Judge This: No Gay Kissing On Modern Family?
June 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I am a bit late on this story but wanted to offer a contrary viewpoint to the dominant one of the outraged blogosphere. Though I have never seen the show, I was interested in the controversy over the show Modern Family which apparently features a gay couple among its lead characters. The controversy centers not [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Ethics, Featured, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Moral Psychology, Morality, News Discussion, Pop Culture, Prejudice, Psychology, Same Sex Marriage, Sex, TV Tags: ABC, Modern Family, Waymon Hudson No Comments »Star Wars Corsets
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke You can own both of these for just the low prices of $600 and $500! (via) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Hilarious, Pop Culture Tags: Darth Vader, Novelties, Princess Leia, Star Wars, Storm Troopers No Comments »Sex And The City 2 (And Religion) (And Feminism) (And Race) (And Homophobia)
June 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Diana Bass complains: It just wasn’t very funny to see four smart American women parading western consumerism and sexualized identity in blatantly insensitive and anti-religious ways in a traditional world. Wait a minute, what she describes may not be funny but it’s certainly the best thing I’ve heard about the film from everything that I’ve [...]
Daily Hilarity: Best Of Sarah Haskins’s “Target Women”
June 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Sarah Haskins always provides the most hilarious and incisive commentary tearing into the lousy logic and vapid condescension packed into advertisements targeted at women on her recurring Infomania segment called Target Women. Her dry witted satirical media criticism would be a perfect fit on The Daily Show and in logic classes. Every time I watch one of [...]
The Roman Catholic Lady Gaga On Religion And The Church
June 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Intuitively it makes a lot of sense to me that Lady Gaga embraces Roman Catholicism: She’s Italian. She has a lavish, theatrical aesthetic inevitably inherited in part from the most tangible, sensuous, and theatric form of Western Christianity. She’s a self-conscious transgressor who needs, to some extent, to think in terms of traditional binary logics and [...]
Posted in Christianity, Featured, Pop Culture, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism Tags: CNN, Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga's Roman Catholicism, Larry King No Comments »Bill O’Reilly Compares Gays To Al-Qaeda
June 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke A little over an hour ago, I posted this McDonald’s commercial, running only in France thus far, which gently sends a pro-gay message. Little did I know yet that Bill O’Reilly got seriously O’riled up about it tonight: His physical hostility towards such a remarkably understated and delicate ad and his adamant insistence that the [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Featured, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Pop Culture, Videos Tags: Bill O'Reilly, FOX News, Jane Skinner, McDonald's, McDonald's commercial, Pro-Gay Ad No Comments »“Come As You Are”
June 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke McDonald’s takes a social stand, in France: Vos pensées?
Posted in Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Pop Culture Tags: Advertizements, Advertizing, Cool Advertisements, France, McDonald's No Comments »Don’t Mess With The Bieber
June 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Apparently even teeny bop pop stars for 12 year old girls have a death threatening contingent among their fans: So what would happen if Justin Bieber was deleted from the internet? After all, the young singer consumer product is a perpetual trending topic on Twitter, and his fans have already twice caused him to cancel a public appearance [...]
Trading Spouses: Christians Vs. Woo Edition
May 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Passive aggressive condemnation does not come much rawer than this: Your Thoughts?
Teen Werewolves
May 26th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Am I just getting older or are teens really becoming a whole lot less distinguishable from children? The wisdom of a teen werewolf: I don’t believe any one is just human. Everyone’s got something else mixed in with them, just they’ve got to actually look inside themselves to see what it is. Thanks to Brandy [...]
Posted in News, News Discussion, Pop Culture, Social Psychology, Videos Tags: John Marshall High School, San Antonio, Teen Werewolves, Teenager No Comments »The Simpsons On South Park’s Mohammed Depiction Problem
April 26th, 2010 Daniel Fincke via Your Thoughts?
25 Years Of Oprah Screaming Celebrities’ Names
November 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke via Jezebel: Your ThOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUGHTS?
Judge This: NYC’s Anti-Fattening Drinks Ad Campaign
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Saturday on the subway I was enjoying the above poster, as I have numerous times throughout the semester. And in fact, I haven’t just been seeing it on the subways but in my mind whenever I think of sodas now. In fact I’ve had this image in my head since before I saw the ad [...]
Posted in Biology, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Featured, Pop Culture, Psychology Tags: Ads, Health, NYC, Paternalism, Shock Advertising, Soda, Subway Ads 5 Comments »Do You Believe In Satan?
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The theologians at The View weighed in on this question last March… I’d like to ask my Christian readers especially—do you believe in Satan? And if so, what do you think Satan is like exactly? And why do you think what you think? Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Pop Culture, Religulous, TV, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Hasselback, Satan, Sherri Shepherd, The View, Whoopi Goldberg No Comments »“Holiday Co-options”, Or “What Exactly Did We Celebrate Saturday?”
November 2nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Richard Wade on the evolution of a holiday: Last night, we celebrated Celtic Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of the Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Pagan Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of he Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Catholic All Saints Vigil/Feast Co-opted to Capitalist Subconscious Psycho-Sexual Sado-Masochistic Eros-Thanatos Paravestite Fetish Fantasy Catharsis and Candy [...]
The “#No God” Twitter Trend FAIL
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The de-Convert passes along the story of an amusing atheist twitter “victory”: In a classic case of irony, Christians tried to get the statement “No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace” to trend today on Twitter. The result of this was the phrase “No God” became the #1 trending topic. Please understand that atheists [...]
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Culture and Technology, Pop Culture, Religion Tags: FAIL, Irony, Twitter No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Dark Knight 60′s Batman Version
October 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Pop Culture, TV Tags: 1960s Batman TV Series, Batman, Batman and Robin, Dark Knight, Joker No Comments »The Simpsons Take On Creationism
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Unreasonable Faith has a 12+ minute clip of a few year old episode. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Pop Culture, Religion and Science, TV, Videos Tags: The Simpsons No Comments »Nasty, Brutish, And Short
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Yeah, this kid will stop being funny soon as he grows up enough to have the slightest modicum of power over anybody or anything. Your Thoughts?
Breakfast Of Champion Actor Governors
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Arnold reveals the secret to his success on Twitter. Behold his breakfast: via Your Thoughts?
Marge Simpson On Playboy Cover
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Well this is… unexpected. When I went to bed last night the thought that Barack Obama would win the Nobel Peace Prize and Marge Simpson would be on the cover of Playboy would have never, ever crossed my mind. Maybe the other way around would have even been more plausible. What a goofy world we [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, News, News Discussion, Politics, Pop Culture, World Affairs Tags: Marge Simpson, Nobel Peace Prize, Playboy, The Simpsons No Comments »
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