For some reason I cannot fathom, there is an OLD story from the Telegraph with the most misleading headline of all time that is currently floating around the Facebook walls of my friends. No clue why it’s popping up, and why people who I generally know to be reliably skeptical didn’t bother to read the timestamp …
Category Archive: funny
Jul 12 2012
Well I’m gonna have to find a new job
If you’ve been following the #FTBullies controversy ridiculous hissy fit reasoned discussion by reasonable people (with reason!), you may have come across a number of people calling my credibility and motivations into question with regard to my refusing to grant any legitimacy to the meme that Freethought Blogs is a hive-mind that silences dissent. “Of course …
Jul 06 2012
Movie Friday: CAPTAIN PLANET!
Well I decided to go nonsensical instead of topical this week. The following joke is predicated on the audience understanding that Ted Turner is an environmental philanthropist and created the Captain Planet cartoon: This joke is predicated on the audience not being terrified to death by Don Cheadle in blueface: Like this article? Follow me on Twitter!
Jun 29 2012
Movie Friday: W. Kamau Bell
A lot of the discussion about racism is nuanced and requires not so much a list of “dos and don’ts” but a general approach that requires consciousness raising about issues that may fall outside your personal experience. There will never be a specific pattern of behaviours that makes someone a ‘non-racist’ or is foolproof in …
May 11 2012
It’s been a weird day
So when I called the guy at the credit card company to report that my card had been lost, I told him “it’s been a weird day”.
May 02 2012
Okay so this is just awesome
This morning I decried the culture of police abuse that allows individual officers to flaunt their authority at the expense of civilians. I also warned, in soothsayer-like tones, of what happens when you lose the trust of the people you were ostensibly sworn to serve and protect. I didn’t really think I’d find such an …
Apr 13 2012
Movie Friday: The Mysterious Mysteries of Paranormality
It is interesting (to me, anyway) to note the similarities between different kinds of non-rational belief, and the way in which they seem to hang together. After all, if you’re willing to suspend skepticism long enough to accept a Palestinian carpenter walking on water (at least when he’s not turning it into wine for some …
Mar 30 2012
Movie Friday: PG Porn
To cap off what was a ‘good news week’ (minus Monday, perhaps), I thought I’d showcase a couple of videos that don’t have any message to them whatsoever, but are just lulz-worthy. Don’t be fooled – there is no nudity or sex in these clips, but you might not want to watch them at work …
Mar 23 2012
Movie Friday: DIY
Here’s a chance for you to make your own Friday movie. Gender Commercial Remixer Just take any two commercials, and swap the audio from the ‘boys’ commercial with the video from the ‘girls’ commercial (or vice versa). Hit ‘mashup’ and enjoy! And then cry, I guess. If you have kids, maybe show this to them so …
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