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In a post I had overlooked a month ago, Jason tore into the hypocrisy of any leftists who express outrage over violent right wing rhetoric but are okay with a first person zombie game where you get to kill Tea Partiers: The game is about killing the Teabagging zombies before they kill you. It’s called “TEA [...]
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Careless Violent Fantasies In Politics
October 16th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Is Evangelicalism Uniquely Vindictive, More Than Other, Secular Ideological Dispositions?
October 2nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke So I had Martin Bashir on in the background one day last week and was struck to hear Nick Broomfield (whose new documentary Sarah Palin: You Betcha! I highlighted a couple weeks ago) directly and solely blame Sarah Palin’s vindictiveness on her religion. Outside of a handful of scathing New Atheists I don’t think I have [...]
The Good Simple Folks of Alaska Who Really Know Sarah Palin Speak…
September 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke In a new documentary by Nick Broomfield: One after another classmates and relatives come forward to grind axes and shiver at the prospect of a Palin presidency. They’re joined by former campaign managers, chief strategists, PR agents, mentors, preachers and policemen, all singing from the same hymn sheet: Palin’s ruthlessness and venom for revenge knows [...]
So… What If Your Only Options In A General Election Were Santorum, Perry, Palin, and Bachmann?
September 16th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Who is the least of all evils and why? Your Thoughts?
Is it Too Risky to Debate Morality's Foundations in the Public Square?
February 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Jean Kazez argues that the public square is not the place for atheists to be arguing that science and religion are incompatible. I strongly reject her position on this point because not only do I believe that ordinary people are quite capable of handling a vigorous, no-holds-barred debate about religion but because I believe the [...]
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Tags: J.L. Mackie, Jean Kazez, Jean-Paul Sartre, Moral Anti-Realism, Moral Error Theory, Moral Realism, Pragmatism, Russell Blackford, Sam Harris, The Death of God 
8 Comments »"To The Victims Of This Tragedy We Send Our Thoughts And Prayers" By Roy Zimmerman
February 17th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A satirization of Sarah Palin and what she represents: Of course, as it turned out there were no direct connections between Sarah Palin and Jared Lee Loughner. Nonetheless this is entirely valid criticism of the completely reckless conflation of guns with politics, self-righteous apocalyptic theocratic jingoistic religion, loose talk about revolution, and hyperbolic associations of [...]
Birther Madness In The Republican Party
February 16th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Anderson Cooper interviews Montana State Representative Bob Wagner who refuses to admit that he knows either that President Obama was born in America or even that being born in America makes someone a citizen: Stupefyingly, Representative Wagner is representative of more than 50% of likely Republican primary voters: Birthers make a majority among those voters [...]
PZ Myers Shouldn't Sound Like Sarah Palin
February 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Alright, before I get into my possibly anal critique of an off-hand remark from the good Dr. Myers of Pharyngula fame, let me preface what follows with the disclaimer that I really love PZ Myers. I think he’s great. There are few bloggers I read who make both my brain happy and butter up my [...]
Daily Hilarity: Bill Maher On The Founding Fathers Vs. The Tea Party
January 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bill Maher, Bill Maher, Comedy, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Hilarious, Political Satire, Political Satire, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Satire, Satire, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State No Comments »Sickening Hypocrisy: Tweets Wishing Violent Death Upon Sarah Palin
January 14th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A tip for ending cycles of immorality: never let your moral condemnations themselves be morally condemnable. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Your Thoughts?
Posted in Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Tags: Left Wing Hate Speech, Twitter 2 Comments »Indifference To The Facts Of The Case
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Ross Douthat argues that normally an attempted political assassination would have political benefits for the party of the target because of a “rally-round-the-flag” effect but that the left is squandering any of that potential good will with its reaction: violence against elected officials tends to benefit whichever party seems to be targeted —except in cases [...]
Posted in Featured, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Tags: Ross Douthat 1 Comment »Sullivan Sums Up Palin
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I cannot resist reproducing Andrew Sullivan’s post in full, since it so well encapsulates my response to Palin’s speech this morning: The leader of the GOP base has told us a lot today. She has told us two things. She can see absolutely nothing awry in the inflammatory and violent rhetoric she and others have deployed [...]
Denouncing Political Rhetoric Which Is Indistinguishable From The Manifestos Of Paranoid Madmen
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Jon Stewart’s remarks about Tucson two nights ago were poignant, conciliatory, honest, humble, and insightful: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Here he hits the nail on the head: I do think it is a worthwhile goal not to conflate our political [...]
Sarah Speaks
January 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. Your Thoughts?
A Compendium Of Important Links About Tucson And About Political Rhetoric
January 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke There is a wealth of stuff out there worth boning up on. This story explains that Giffords is not the only of Palin’s crosshaired candidates to receive vandalism or death threats. Here is a timeline of two and a half years of disturbing, political, gun related statements and behavior coming from the right wing. Bryce [...]
Posted in News, News Discussion, News Discussion, Politics, Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Lee Loughner 3 Comments »Moral Luck, Sarah Palin, And The “Targeting” Of Gabrielle Giffords
January 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Contrary to first impressions, it does not seem at this point that Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting of Congresswoman Giffords and nineteen other people was directly inspired by the Tea Party movement or by Sarah Palin. What has dribbled out so far about Loughner’s ideas seems closest to anarchism in ideology and there are amateur diagnoses [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Tags: Blame, Gabrielle Giffords, Moral Luck, Moral Responsibility, Responsibility 6 Comments »May This Be The End Of Sarah Palin’s Cultural Influence
January 8th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Even on the off-chance that the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords does not turn out to be at the hands of a right wing terrorist, can we now at least agree that Sarah Palin should be shamed out of politics by all on the left, center, and right for her disgraceful use of violent imagery and [...]
Hitchens On Crass Responses To The Proposed Ground Zero Islamic Center
August 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Noting the shadiness and creepiness of public remarks by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the plan to build a mosque blocks away from the former site of the Twin Towers, Christopher Hitchens is nonetheless repulsed by the tactics adopted by his opposition. Starting with Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, he writes: [...]
Posted in Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, History, Islam, Islam, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: 9/11 Victims, Abraham Foxman, Andalusia, Cordoba House, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, María Rosa Menocal, mosque, Mosque Near Ground Zero, Newt Gingrigh, Spain, The Ornament of the World, The Weekly Standard 1 Comment »The Tea Party’s Forebears
July 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke (via) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Comedy, Comedy, Law & Politics, Political Satire, Political Satire, Politics, Politics, Racism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Federalism, Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, Mock The Dummy, States Rights, Suffregates, Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, Woodrow Wilson 1 Comment »How Palin Might Win A Presidential Nomination
July 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke John Ellis lays out a scary scenario: As the Republican avalanche of 2010 builds — and I saw a poll the other day of a Democratic-leaning state Senate district on Long Island where the “right track” (8%)/”wrong direction” (83%) was unlike anything I had ever seen — Palin has smartly positioned herself as the champion [...]
Posted in Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Tags: Tea Party No Comments »Real America
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Back in 2008, The Daily Show explored “real America” so those of us who don’t live there could learn from it. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'Understanding Real America in Wasilla www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Your Thoughts?
God’s “Orbit Plans” For Bristol Palin
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Tinfoiler interprets current events for her son: Blessed Bristol Palin is back in the news discussing her wonderful love child. When my son Hunter asked me why it was okay for Bristol Palin to have a baby before she was married, I told him that God has special rules for special people. God knew that Bristol [...]
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