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Ross Douthat half admits to the intellectual bankruptcy of his opposition of to same-sex marriage and then tacitly demonstrates it with his pathetic reply when pushed to address the topic last month at the New School: “I am someone opposed to gay marriage who is deeply uncomfortable arguing the issue in public.” Mr. Douthat indicated [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Ross Douthat Claims Arguments Against Gay Marriage Lose Because They’re Just “Too Abstract”
November 30th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Applied Ethics, Atheism, Christianity, Civil Rights, Faith, Featured, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, News, News Discussion, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Same Sex Marriage, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Theocrats 
Tags: New School University, Russ Douthat, The New York Times 
No Comments »Happy Thanksgiving Week!
November 25th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Just a post wishing safe travels and incident-free trips through security to everyone! Happy Thanksgiving! http://xkcd.com/651/
God Hates Yeast
November 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke And some brave Christians are standing up against its ungodly incorporation into our culture: Your Thoughts?
Mr. Deity Unveils Eve…
November 24th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Religious Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Eve, Garden of Eden, Mr. Deity No Comments »25 Years Of Oprah Screaming Celebrities’ Names
November 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke via Jezebel: Your ThOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUGHTS?
Interviews With Palin Supporters
November 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Of course you can do this with the average citizens on either side of the aisle. But still: (via Andrew Sullivan) Your Thoughts?
Hand Walker
November 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke After posting Tina Fey’s opening at the Ad Council dinner, I decided to look at the Ad Council’s YouTube page and found this novelty, an incredibly talented hand walker: Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Reservoir Turtles
November 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Hilarious Tags: Mashups, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles No Comments »Encouragements Of Imprecatory Prayers Against Obama
November 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So insidious: Over the past few days, a Biblical verse has reportedly topped the google trends charts. It is also turning up in bumper stickers and tee shirts across the country. It reads: “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8” But what do you see when you look up that Psalm? “May his days be few; may [...]
How Exercise Helps Mold A More Stress-Resistant Brain
November 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Really interesting research out of Princeton: In the experiment, preliminary results of which were presented last month at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago, scientists allowed one group of rats to run. Another set of rodents was not allowed to exercise. Then all of the rats swam in cold water, which they [...]
Daily Hilarity: Video Game Worship
November 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke No, not worshipping video games, worshipping through a video game… The word on the street is it’s only a parody unfortunately.
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Religion, Religious Satire, Videos Tags: video games No Comments »Gay Zombies Want Our Brains
November 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Stephen Colbert exposes the real intentions of gays seeking the right to bury their partners. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Skeletons in the Closet www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Fox News Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Comedy, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, LGBTQAA, Political Satire, Politics, Same Sex Marriage, Satire, Videos Tags: Stephen Colbert No Comments »The Loudness War And The Attempt To Sand The Rough Edges Off Of Rock
November 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke NPR has a great article on the effects of attempts to reduce volume range within songs and to clean up all the natural mistakes of human performance. First a video that the blog points us to on the deleterious effects of the minimization of loud/soft contrasts: And Douglas Wolk features The Beatles’ video for “Rain” [...]
Daily Hilarity: The Ball Is Inducted Into Toy Hall Of Fame
November 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke And Jon Stewart is outraged it took this long for ball to get its due recognition in this utterly hilarious clip. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious Tags: Balls, Novelties, The Daily Show, Toy Hall of Fame, Toys No Comments »Sportsmanship Fail
November 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This is the first soccer footage I’ve ever found interesting: Your Thoughts?
Is Carrie Prejean From Another Land In The Future?
November 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This guy catches the hidden truth revealed in her infamous answer at the Miss Universe pageant: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, LGBTQAA, News Discussion, Politics, Same Sex Marriage, Videos Tags: Carrie Prejean, illdoc1, Perez Hilton No Comments »Understanding British Jihadis
November 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Johann Hari has a fascinating article trying to understand homegrown British Islamists: Yet they felt equally shut out of British or democratic identity. From the right, there was the brutal nativist cry of “Go back where you came from!” But from the left, there was its mirror-image: a gooey multicultural sense that immigrants didn’t want [...]
Posted in Islam, Religion, Religious Extremism Tags: British Jihadis, Islamism, Johann Hari, Multiculturalism, Muslims In Britain, Nativism No Comments »Man Fired For Telling Coworker Her Homosexuality Was “Bad Stuff”
November 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This poor man had to suffer hearing a woman make references to her fiance a whole four times. It’s damaged his psyche to the point where he can’t stop himself from saying the word homosexual six times in the space of two sentences. He just can’t stop repeating the horrible word: “This woman repeatedly and [...]
Bob Dylan’s Video For “Must Be Santa”
November 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So now here’s a video for a song from Bob’s delightfully wacky new Christmas CD, Christmas In The Heart. It’s a shame that the video is for the most unlistenable song on the whole CD (“Must Be Santa”) but it’s nonetheless a charmingly daffy and surreal watch so I figured I’d mention it. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bob Dylan, Hilarious, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Christmas In The Heart", "Must Be Santa" No Comments »Notice Anything Different?
November 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A video to test your powers of observation (I probably watched it 6 times in a row out of fascination): via Jesse Galef Your Thoughts?
The Catholic Church Sacrifices Charity At The Altar Of Bigotry
November 15th, 2009 Daniel Fincke ZJEmptv goes after the Catholic Church in DC for threatening to abandon services in the district rather than follow a proposed law that would demand they extend benefits to the partners of gay employees in same-sex marriages: Your Thoughts?
Blessed Are The Bullies? Christians’ Threats Force Atheist Billboards To Be Taken Down
November 15th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Angering news out of Cincinnati: (via Atheist Media Blog) Your Thoughts?
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
November 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A little Nick Cave for the beginning of the weekend… Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Dig Lazarus Dig, Live Music, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds No Comments »
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