One Nation Indivisible

Just Monday morning I was riding along a Florida Highway staring with irritation at a giant billboard looking just like the one below except it had the giant word “GOD” in the middle contributing to three phrases.   Atop and to the left of the word God it said “One Nation Under”, on the left […]

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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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Daily Hilarity: Dave Allen On Religion

Hilarious and insightful stuff: Thanks to Bruce for the link! Your Thoughts?

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An Awareness Test

Keep your eye on the ball: You Are Not So Smart has more on the phenomenon of Inattentional Blindness. Your Thoughts?

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The Asian Sex Trade

“The sex trade now accounts for 14% of Thailand’s economy.” Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: How To Stay Thin

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Are Liberal Values Objectively Better Than Conservative Ones?

In recent years, Jonathan Haidt has been influentially arguing that there are five essential modules in the mind from which human moral concerns originate.  He has made this claim in several places, most prominently among philosophers in his contribution to Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity (from Walter Sinnott-Armstrong’s groundbreaking […]

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Jennifer Michael Hecht On The History Of Doubt And Atheism

Here is Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson at Hampshire College in 2007 discussing the the wrote the complicated history of doubt and atheism: 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

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Scientology’s Abusive Treatment Of Children

Scarlett Hanna is the daughter of Australia’s head of Scientology, Vicki Dunstan. An interesting trend here as the son of the founder (L. Ron Hubbard) of scientology, Ron DeWolfe (changed his name!), as well as the brother and niece of the current international leader (David Miscavige) have also all escaped and denounced the cult. (via […]

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Haiti’s Human Trafficking Problem Exacerbated By Earthquake

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Spanish Singer Prosecuted For Cooking A Crucifix In 1978

Here’s the offending video: And the story of the penalties to be paid for it: Musician Javier Krahe faces a fine of £159,000 after stills from the spoof cookery show, which involved baking an effigy of Christ for three days, were shown on television in 2004 during an interview with the star. Despite the length […]

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Nigerian Oil Spill Victims Fight Foreign Oil Companies

1.5 million tons of oil spilled in Nigeria over the last 50 years, with no accountability from foreign oil companies: Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: Goofing On Seinfeld

Howard Stern and Gilbert Gottfried lay into Jerry: Your Thoughts?

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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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Daily Hilarity: YouTube’s Worst Musicians

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The Secret Powers Of Time

Some interesting insights, but visually a blast to watch:  Your Thoughts?

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Comic Hackwork

Being witless must be a bummer when you are pursuing a career in comedy.  But turning to treating women obnoxiously with your oh-so-over-the-top pushy zaniness isn’t going to make up the difference: \ (via The Daily What)

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Exit Polls Say Geert Wilders’s Anti-Islamic Party Doubles Its Seats In Dutch Parliament

The Guardian: The Netherlands’ anti-Islamic MP Geert Wilders appeared on course for major gains in a general election yesterday, more than doubling his party’s seats in the Dutch parliament and overtaking the incumbent ruling Christian Democrats, according to exit polls last night. Wilders’ Freedom party looked to have taken third place in a close-fought election […]

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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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The Life You Can Save

Peter Singer is turning his famous thought experiment into a charity experiment: The Life You Can Save in website form and The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty in book form. Your Thoughts?

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Angry Atheist Debate About A Mosque Near Ground Zerosts

Saturday I put together a large post highlighting a spectrum of thoughtful and/or provocative opinions on the recently approved plan to build a mosque a couple of blocks away from the former site of the World Trade Center in New York.  That day, for the sake of balance, I wanted to find someone who could […]

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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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