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…and this trailer is so Wes Andersony (Slate nicely breaks down how) that at first it struck me like he was descending into self-parody. But by the end I felt like I had just watched a charming two minute movie. Watching the actual full length film might spoil the charm. I’ll have to think over [...]
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You Know I Usually Hate Wes Anderson Movies…
January 12th, 2012 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Film, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Parody 
Tags: Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Wes Anderson's Spider-Man 
3 Comments »The Mysterious Mysteries of Paranormality
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Impressively, all of MisterSharp’s videos are as educational as this one. Your Thoughts?
Shit Nobody Says
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke As my 24 hour blogathon ends its seventh hour, I give you a funny video circling the intertubes today. More blog posts coming every 45 minutes. Feel free to put your suggestions for topics in the comments or in an e-mail to me. Your Thoughts?
I’m a Muppet of a Man, I’m a Very Manly Muppet
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Life’s like a movie, make your ending, keep believing, keep pretending… As Tyler Cowen was talking about in the last post, humans are inexorably drawn to stories. I even like to think of every sentence as a story. It stars a subject which verbs something. And in my childhood there were two stories that loomed [...]
How To Make Your Own Doritos
January 6th, 2012 Daniel Fincke As someone whose body must be made of at least 20% Dorito since I eat so many of them, the revelation of the secret ingredient made perfect sense to me. It had to be something that special to make something that tastes that good: Just so no one gets confused, I’ve placed a disclaimer for [...]
It’s Thursday
January 5th, 2012 Daniel Fincke I hope you’re not ashamed to keep the Thor in Thursday. Your Thoroughts?
It’s Christmas Eve, So You Know Who Is Going To Visit…
December 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke No, not Santa Claus—as it turns out, he doesn’t exist. The Flying Spaghetti Monster, on the other hand…
“All American Muslims” Meet All American Islamophobia
December 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Daily Show had fantastic coverage this week of The Florida Family Association’s opposition to TLC’s show All American Muslim: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: Aasif Mandvi, All American Muslim, Islamophobia, Muslims, Ophelia Benson, The Daily Show 1 Comment »Christian Children: The True Victims of the War on Christmas
December 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is so well done: War On Christmas PSA Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Parody, Parody, Political Satire, Political Satire, Religulous, Religulous, Satire, Satire Tags: "War on Christmas" PSA, Rick Perry 6 Comments »Dan Barker Makes Sense of the Gospel Message
December 3rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke I know Dan Barker claims to be only a former Christian minister but he still has a gift for bringing the Gospel message alive in a fresh, new way that makes powerful sense of it. It’s weird it would take an atheist’s description to make me see angles in the story of salvation which I [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Christianity, Christianity, God, God, Hilarious, Jesus, Jesus, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Religulous, Religulous, Satire, Satire 3 Comments »If You Love South Park, Learn About the Originals–The Ancient Cynics
December 2nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke What kinds of philosophers choose the name for their school of philosophy from the word for dogs? The cynics, who were basically social-convention flouting performance artists and proto-south park scatalogical/philosophical satirists of their time. Learn plenty about them in a very accessible 22 minutes, filled with charming anecdotes. An ancient philosophy specialist and friend of mine recommended [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Comedy, Comedy, Ethics, Ethics, Hilarious, Historical Ethics, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Historical Philosophy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Plato, Plato, Virtues, Virtues Tags: Antisthenes, Demetrius, Diogenes Laertius, Diogenes of Synope, Pleasure, Socrates 3 Comments »Patton Oswalt Savaging Awful Christmas Song
November 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A holiday chestnut: Your Thoughts?
Does This Count As A “Caturday” Post?
November 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I’m not at all a cat person but I just think these classic album covers recreated with cats are funny. But by posting this on a Saturday does that make this my capitulation to the Caturday craze or do I have to intend to make a Caturday post for it to be one? via Your [...]
Flying Spaghetti Monster Wedding Cake
November 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Behold the wedding cake of the future in which atheists attain supreme, hegemonic cultural control: via Friendly Atheist More awesome cakes here. Awesomely terrible cakes here. Your Cakes?
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving GOP Debate
November 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This slayed me. Tears leaking out of the sides of my eyes funny: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire, Unintentional Comedy Tags: GOP Debates, Jimmy Kimmel, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry 3 Comments »South Park Savages Dogmatic Agnostics
November 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Someone finally satirizes the agnostics for once, starting at 0:50 in the first video below and continuing through the others. (My own quibbles with agnostics are spelled out more philosophically and less humorously primarily in the posts 7 Reasons Why I Label Myself An Atheist Rather Than An Agnostic, Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: Agnosticism, Criticisms of Agnosticism, South Park on Agnosticism 2 Comments »Arabs As “The New Blacks”
November 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Arab comedian Dean Obeidallah: The Watch List Watch it now! Arabs are the New Blacks www.comedycentral.com Comedy Central Funny Videos Funny TV Shows Your Thoughts?
The Greatest Online Video Profile Ever
November 17th, 2011 Daniel Fincke So much awesome. This guy must be flooded with replies: Your Future Husband from Bradley Jackson on Vimeo. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: Bradley Jackson, Dating Parody, Luke Korem, Michael Faerber 4 Comments »Tina Fey’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech
November 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A much hilarious speech in response to a much deserved honor: I’ve had such a crush on her for such a while. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious Tags: Kennedy Center, Lorne Michaels, Mark Twain Prize, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey 4 Comments »High Fructose Corn Syrup Commercials
November 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The commercial being parodied is here. Your Thoughts?
L. Dicaprio
November 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Oscar season has begun: L. DiCaprio (J. Edgar Parody) – watch more funny videos Your Thoughts?
Hurrah For The Justice System
November 8th, 2011 Daniel Fincke For a slightly more up to date account of the neurobiological bases of antisocial behavior, here is an account that goes brain region by brain region. And for more on the inner-workings of the justice system, Glenn Greenwald’s new book With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and [...]
Jon Stewart Considers “In God We Trust” Debate Just A Waste of Time Distraction. Is It?
November 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook After watching that clip from The Daily Show, I think I can finally crystalize what I hear from the average secular progressive voting in Congress, writing for The Daily Show, or watching at home when a [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Comedy, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Cutural Criticism, Cutural Criticism, Law & Politics, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Political Satire, Political Satire, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire, Satire, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats 13 Comments »
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