Judge This: No Gay Kissing On Modern Family?

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 […]

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Daily Hilarity: A New Pope In A Galaxy Far, Far Away

The absurdity of religious ceremonial pretensions are clarified a bit: Thanks to Heather for the link. Your Thoughts?

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My Baby Is Black!

Apparently this is a vintage 27 second TV spot for an actual 1960′s exploitation film: via postbourgie (which also has a good post on the cop video from earlier). Your Thoughts?

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YouTube’s Margaret Stewart Explains Their Approach To Copyright

Margaret Stewart explains how rights identification is allows copyrighted videos uploaded by users to be accepted or rejected by the rights owners and makes the pitch to rights holders to let their material get uploaded onto YouTube: Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: Your Guide To Internet Dating And Terminology

Your Thoughts?

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The Rise Of Islamo-Erotica

(Image: “God Is Great” by Makan Emadi) Betwa Shermer has a really interesting piece about Muslim artists in America who incorporate nudes into their art.  Defenses of nudity in art as permissible by Islamic standards: The Lebanese-born artist, who now lives in New York, insists that the taboo stems from a conservative society and not […]

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“Come Closer Together”: The Beatles Mashed With Nine Inch Nails

DJ Zebra’s incredible mash up of two classic songs from a few years back is more than a gimmick, it’s a legitimate work of art in its own right: By the way, Trent Reznor just released his first album not as Nine Inch Nails, How to Destroy Angels. His new group is also called How […]

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Slash Guitar Soloing The Godfather Theme

Pretty great stuff, already viewed millions of times on YouTube: Your Thoughts?

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Changing Minds

Steven Pinker compares current worries that the internet is changing how we think and making it more superficial to previous “moral panics” at the arrival of all other new media, from the printing press to newspapers to television.  (And his examples might as well have gone all the way back to Plato’s mistrust of the […]

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“Skipping Sunday School”: A Documentary On Parenting Without Religion And Growing Up Godless

(via Atheist Nexus) Learn more about the topic and the film here. Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

I have watched this trailer spoof a few dozen times since it was released three months ago.  It’s simply brilliant.  It’s quite possibly my favorite internet comedy video of all time. Your Thoughts?

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El Empleo

A neat animated short: Thanks to Qasim for the link. Your Thoughts?

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“In My Mother’s House, There Is Still God!”

Johnson Brown explains: This scene is from the 2008 TV remake of the 1961 film, A Raisin in the Sun (an adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s play). “In my mother’s house, there is still god!” In this version, they left out the best line: “All the tyranny in the world will never put a god up […]

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Star Wars Corsets

You can own both of these for just the low prices of $600 and $500! (via) Your Thoughts?

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Take An Advance Listen To Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ New Album, Mojo

Here. The album will be released June 15. Your Thoughts?

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8: The Mormon Proposition

8: The Mormon Proposition, a new movie out in theaters next Friday and available on DVD in July, explores the way that a tax exempt organization has waged a “secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights”: Thanks to Richard for the link. Your Thoughts?

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The Band Tool And The Fibonacci Sequence

Apparently math explains the Tool song, “Lateralus”: And apparently even the powers of math cannot make me like a Tool song.  I couldn’t even finish it. Thanks to Victoria for the link. Your Thoughts?

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Sex And The City 2 (And Religion) (And Feminism) (And Race) (And Homophobia)

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 […]

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Daily Hilarity: Best Of Sarah Haskins’s “Target Women”

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 […]

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The Roman Catholic Lady Gaga On Religion And The Church

While intuitively it makes a lot of sense to me that Lady Gaga embraces Roman Catholicism—she’s Italian, she has a lavish, theatrical aesthetic inherited inevitably 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 […]

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Bill O’Reilly Compares Gays To Al-Qaeda

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 […]

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“Come As You Are”

McDonald’s takes a social stand, in France: Vos pensées?

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A Year Of Photos By Helen Sotiriadis

Regular readers of the blog toomanytribbles (which some of you, like I, may follow on Planet Atheism) are likely familiar with Helen Sotiriadis’s daily project of taking and blogging a photograph a day in 2009.  When the year was over she provided a video retrospective of the entire year in photos: Since so many gorgeous […]

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Don’t Mess With The Bieber

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 […]

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Daily Hilarity: Iron Baby

Patrick Boivin’s super-cool and hilarious parody.  The special effects are fantastic. Your Thoughts?

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