Daily Archive: August 3, 2009

Aug 03 2009

Prof. Frank Turek vs Christopher Hitchens

I’ve heard a lot of Turek’s arguments before. Very recently, in fact. And a thousand times prior, as well… but that’s neither here nor there. Make some popcorn, it’s over two hours long. Regardless of the fact that some of Hitchens’ views are anathema to the standard type of person that is attracted to rationality, …

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Aug 03 2009

Disaster Porn

Phil Plait, as usual, calls it like it is — the upcoming movie 2012, which was built to capitalize on credulous folks’ sincere magical-thinking-based beliefs that a Mayan clock “rollover” is equivalent to the end of the world, is nothing more than disaster porn. Worse, it’s like a disaster porn movie from the 70s, in …

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