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Even better than the stuffed duck/rabbit, this is my new favorite illustration of gestalt shifts (which, I would guess are likely to play a big role in deconversions and, so, worth specifically trying to induce when debating believers). And, as someone else already noted, Wolverine or 2 Batmen is also the plot of The Prestige when you think about it… [...]
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Illustrating Gestalt Shifts: “Wolverine or 2 Batmen”
February 13th, 2012 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Comic Books, Comic Books, Comic Books, Pop Culture, Pop Culture 
Tags: Batman, Duck Rabbit, Gestalt Shifts, Olly Moss, Pop Art, Wolverine, Wolverine or 2 Batmen 
6 Comments »Are You One of the Millions Who Support Ellen?
February 10th, 2012 Daniel Fincke The “One Million Moms” (who actually only had around 40,000 Facebook likes) tried to get Ellen Degeneres fired as a JC Penney spokesperson on account of her being gay. A counter Facebook page looking to garner an actual 1,000,000 supporters for Ellen started fishing for likes and has received over 100,000 in a hurry. If you happen [...]
Posted in Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, LGBTQAA, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, TV, TV Tags: Ellen and Portia on Oprah, Ellen Degeneres, Facebook, Portia Degeneres, Portia DiRossi 6 Comments »Cartoon Eye Balls Make Everything More Fun
November 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Pareidolia anyone? From Timm Schneider’s art project They Live. See more. Via Laughing Squid (no relation to PZ. That I know of.) Photo by Amanda Moulson of Turnstyle News Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Novelties, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Art From Everyday Objects, Cartoon Eye Balls, Cookie Monster 1 Comment »Feministing Calvin
November 7th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sinfest: When I was a kid I was a huge Calvin and Hobbes fan and I adored Susie. I always thought she was clearly the one we were supposed to be sympathizing with in her exchanges with Calvin. Your Thoughts?
Jon Stewart Considers “In God We Trust” Debate Just A Waste of Time Distraction. Is It?
November 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook After watching that clip from The Daily Show, I think I can finally crystalize what I hear from the average secular progressive voting in Congress, writing for The Daily Show, or watching at home when a [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Comedy, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Cutural Criticism, Cutural Criticism, Law & Politics, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Political Satire, Political Satire, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire, Satire, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats 13 Comments »Batman and Catwoman Depicted Having Sex, Is It Sexist?
September 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Laura Hudson argues that the picture above is sexist, and especially so when taken in context of what has come before it:
Posted in Comic Books, Comic Books, Feminism, Feminism, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Sex Tags: Batman, Catwoman, Sex in Comic Books 28 Comments »“Jar Jar Binks is George Lucas’s critique of democracy.” Discuss.
September 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Okay, so I posed that thesis to my Facebook friends and now I pose it to you, my Camels With Hammers readers: Jar Jar Binks is George Lucas’s critique of democracy. Discuss. To kick off the discussion, here is the hilarious Stevarious’s reply from Facebook: Every instance of democracy presented in Star Wars is rife [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Comedy, Comedy, Cutural Criticism, Cutural Criticism, Hilarious, Plato, Plato, Politics, Politics, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Anakin Skywalker, Emperor Palpatine, Jar Jar Binks, Political Philosophy, Press in Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars and Plato's Republic, Yoda 13 Comments »Star Wars French Ballet Disco
September 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke I can’t add anything that the title doesn’t already express. This just needs to be seen to be comprehended. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5WWc03qCM8&feature=player_embedded#! Your Thoughts?
Talking To Your Kids About Star Wars, A Public Service Announcement
September 22nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke It is important to address some things with your children before other people do: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjMGOvMghY How have you dealt with introducing Star Wars to your children? Your Thoughts on the right and wrong ways to go about it?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Culture, Film, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: PSA Parodies, Star Wars 7 Comments »The Problematic Use of Skeptics in Supernatural Shows
September 19th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Soon-to-be fellow Freethought Blogs blogger Jen McCreight has a good post, wherein she is skeptical of a character’s skeptical reactions in an episode of True Blood. Jen gives spoilers, but I won’t. I can just sum up the problem abstractly as the following: a character who over the course of 47 episodes of the show has discovered the [...]
Laura Marling and St. Vincent Release Spectacular Albums Tomorrow (Tuesday 9/13/11)
September 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Seriously, two of the most gifted and groundbreaking women in pop music today are both releasing staggeringly good third albums of their careers. For the love of music stream Laura Marling’s A Creature I Don’t Know at the New York Times Magazine and St. Vincent’s Strange Mercy at NPR while you still can, if you doubt me. And/or support their amazing [...]
A 1917 Subway Car Back In Service In NYC
September 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke There is a subway that I sometimes ride that shuttles back and forth all day between Grand Central Station and Times Square and it is the most wonderful subway advertising experience because the entire interior of the train will be designed as a giant ad for something—be it the baseball playoffs or a Broadway show [...]
Cheetah Whisperer
September 3rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke The sounds of the cheetahs in the first couple of minutes is downright musical: Thanks to Leroy for the find. And I cannot mention cheetahs and not provide a link to some of my favorite 19 seconds in TV history. Your Thoughts?
van Gogh's Batman
July 31st, 2011 Daniel Fincke By James Hance. See more of, and support, his beautiful work here. See Grover as Captain America by going to his Facebook page. Link via Laughing Squid.
Posted in Arts, Arts, Comic Books, Comic Books, Comic Books, Culture, Featured, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Batman, Vincent van Gogh 1 Comment »The Nothing (Neverending Story + Radiohead's "How To Disappear")
February 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Film, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Videos Tags: The Neverending Story, The Nothing No Comments »Vintage Kermit the Frog From "Sam & Friends" On Visual Thinking
February 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Amazing footage, it boggles my mind to see Kermit in the ’50s: It’s such a shame that Jim Henson’s deft, pitch perfect sense of humor and imagination died with him. Most things muppet-related have been bland, assembly line, Disneyfied hack work since 1990. Blegh. Kermit the Frog is dead, long live Kermit the Frog. Your [...]
Posted in Culture, Culture and Technology, Culture and Technology, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, TV, TV, Videos Tags: Jim Henson, Kermit the Frog, Sam & Friends, Vintage No Comments »Ricky Gervais Defends His “Thank God For Making Me An Atheist” Golden Globes Remark
January 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Here is a full clip of the portion of his recent Piers Morgan interview that dealt with religion: Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Radical Muslim Snacks
January 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'ThreatDown – Radical Muslim Snacks, Flying Robot Drones & Coked Up Vacuums<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive Your Thoughts>?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Islam, Islam, Parody, Parody, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Satire, Satire, Videos No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Ezra Koenig Vs. The Black Keys On The Colbert Report
January 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This was one of the most geekily glorious things ever: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'MeTunes – Grammy Vote – Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney & Ezra Koenig<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive And, for the record, The Black Keys [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Parody, Parody, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Black Keys, Colbert Report, Ezra Koenig, Grammies, Vampire Weekend No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Josh Groban Sings Kanye’s Tweets
January 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Hilarious: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Music, Music, Parody, Parody, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Jimmy Kimmel, Josh Groban, Kanye West, Twitter No Comments »NYPD Blue Moons The FCC With Court Approval
January 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A good day for freedom of speech as the censorious FCC loses its case trying to levy a fine for a naked butt on NYPD Blue: NEW YORK – The Federal Communications Commission cannot fine broadcasters for showing a woman’s nude buttocks on a 2003 episode of “NYPD Blue,” a federal court ruled Tuesday, citing [...]
Daily Hilarity: The Amazing Atheist Drubs Revenge Of The Sith
January 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke For those of you who find it cathartic to have my beloved Star Wars prequels dragged through the mud cleverly and didn’t think Mr. Plinkett’s two hour evisceration of Revenge of the Sith was thorough enough, here is The Amazing Atheist’s review of it: You can also find his takedowns of the previous prequels via [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Film, Film, Film Reviews, Film Reviews, Hilarious, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Amazing Atheist, Star Wars No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Red Letter Media Eviscerates Revenge Of The Sith
January 1st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I am a Star Wars fan and one of the few passionate defenders of the prequels, each of which I wholeheartedly loved the first dozens of times I saw each one. But, if you are going to hate on the prequels, you cannot do a much more thorough, defensible, or hilarious job than Red Letter [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Film, Film, Film Reviews, Film Reviews, Hilarious, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Plinkett, Red Letter Media, Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars 2 Comments »Archie Comics Prepares To Open The Closet Door Nonchalantly
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Dan Parent, the writer and illustrator of an upcoming Archie comic that will introduce the series’s first openly gay character, explains the approach planned for treating the new character’s sexuality and the philosophy behind it: “To the kids at Riverdale High, Kevin’s sexual orientation is a nonissue, Parent said. ‘Their reaction is very nonchalant.’ It’s [...]
Posted in Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Archie, Archie Comics, Comics, Dan Parent, Jughead, Kevin Keller 1 Comment »Stephen Fry On “Big Think”
July 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An hour with Stephen Fry: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Videos Tags: Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry No Comments »
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