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The Atheist Experience.
06/21/11, 19:22
They do all the time. It doesn't go any better than Mr. "I don't understand basic principles of nature."
These guys were incredibly patient, and only gave up on the caller when it became obvious that he was expecting them to educate him on the entirety of science, rather than come up with any original ideas or points of his own. And yet, the same people who've left hundreds of comments mocking idiots in videos, are now willing to ascribe smugness to atheists based on a similar reaction.
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Douglas Wilson on Circular Reasoning
06/21/11, 18:19
Even if this were true (and it's not), another person's logical contradiction or lack of evidence doesn't make your own go away.
I've just heard this line of reasoning far too often lately: "We can't 'know' anything, reality has to be assumed, therefore unless you can explain everything about the universe, my beliefs must be treated as valid". And not just by religious people.
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Miss U.S.A. 'delegates' speak about the teaching of evolution in schools.
06/21/11, 17:43
I love that they're called 'delegates' instead of contestants, in an attempt to feign importance. The states didn't chose them, the private organization did. You can't be a delegate to a pageant, on behalf of that same pageant.
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Miss U.S.A. 'delegates' speak about the teaching of evolution in schools.
06/21/11, 17:40
They don't actually mean what they're saying. No one really thinks that kids should be able to answer math questions based on their own beliefs, or that history books should be written based on whatever the local community prefers. They just pretend to in this particular instance as a way of sneaking in their personal beliefs without having to justify them.
Actually, that might be unfair. Some of those ninnies recoil from any answer that might provoke disagreement, and might actually be trained to appease people, rather than consider what is actually true or practical. |
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Miss U.S.A. 'delegates' speak about the teaching of evolution in schools.
06/21/11, 14:47
Some highlights:
Arkansas' "I was never taught evolution in school."
Florida's "We don't know where the first person came from."
Georgia's "Teach science and the Bible and let people decide" (most say 'teach all options', but then mention only biblical creationism as the alternative).
Hawaii's "Everyone should have their own opinion taught."
Iowa's "Teach science as an elective" (she's sadly not the only one)
Kentucky's "Schools shouldn't teach any subject where there's differing opinions"
Mississippi's "It's only a theory, not a fact"
Nevada's "We should teach how Nevada evolved, instead of how people evolved"
New York's "Religion should be taught in schools. Knowledge is power. GO JOE!"
North Dakota's breasts
Virginia's "As a compromise, only teach bits and pieces of theories" |
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Miss U.S.A. 'delegates' speak about the teaching of evolution in schools.
06/21/11, 14:28
To be fair, most of them don't say "evolution is wrong", they say "evolution should be taught, but kids should learn whatever they want to believe is true."
Wait, that's not better.
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Obama impersonator cut short at Republican Leadership Conference
06/20/11, 22:53
I'll give him credit, while it's Leno quality humor, at least he pokes fun of both parties, much like Obama did at the Correspondents dinner. The problem is with the crowd reactions.
Jokes the crowd liked: Anything that mentioned Obama's mixed race and bashed Muslims.
Jokes that bombed: anything that mentioned Republicans, no matter how gentle or obvious.
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Incredible John Kerry impression by Smigel on Conan
06/20/11, 22:43
What, as opposed to a second Bush term? Because we all know how well that went. John Edwards is an example of dodging a bullet.
Like most Conan videos it'll probably be short lived. Which is too bad, because this and a number of related clips are really brilliant. |
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The Handy Goddess Show - How to protect yourself from a forced swine flu vaccination
06/20/11, 20:07
It's not even being so misinformed and wrong that bothers me anymore. It's the lack of internal logic.
Why would the government run around jabbing people in the arm, rather than dispersing it in airports or the water supply? Why bother since it's highly contagious anyway? And why would they be deterred by rubber gloves?
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Pixar Short: George and AJ
06/20/11, 12:59
Rubber band house.
I mean, that guy didn't even have a plan, except attempted murder. He just lands a few blocks away.
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30 Rock - How People Are Eating Lobster in St. Barts
06/20/11, 01:26
Michael Richards wishes that were true.
I'm a fan of the most offensive comics out there, and Morgan routinely made fun of gay people in his act without objection. But being a comic isn't a defense unless the rant was meant to be a joke, and it wasn't. There's no punchline to 'Being gay is an amoral choice, and if my son told me he was gay, I'd stab him.'
Also I don't get the 'grow a pair' reaction people have. No one is trying to censor Morgan, or holding protest marches. People who don't like him won't watch his shows. Not giving money and attention to celebrities who are assholes isn't an overreaction, it's a sensible non-reaction. It doesn't take a lack of balls to think that a person who says stupid things, is stupid.
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30 Rock - How People Are Eating Lobster in St. Barts
06/19/11, 19:57
It's amazing how many alternative explanations people managed to come up with for "Why would someone say they hate gay people?"
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Mirage of Buildings and Trees Appear Over Penglai, China
06/19/11, 16:21
The simplest answer to any mysterious claim: She's lying. The buildings and trees are actually there, and are not illusions at all.
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Mr. Popper's Penguins: Extended Trailer
06/19/11, 16:19
It's like in Ghostbusters. If the guy wasn't such a prick the audience might notice that, hey, it is probably a good idea to have the EPA shut down a nuclear reactor that was cobbled together in a basement in the middle of Manhattan.
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Boston Slutwalk Speech
06/18/11, 20:23
Because if there's one right I desperately want to repress, it's the right of women to dress in an attractive manner without being terrorized.
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Giant Bomb's 52 minute 'Quick Look' of Duke Nukem Forever
06/18/11, 20:19
Sorry, does it need to be explained why platform jumping in FPS games is a bad idea? Isn't the fact that you can't really look at the ground in front of you an obvious defect? Reviews and gamers criticized that aspect of Metroid Prime when it came out 10 years ago, and that was actually designed as a platformer. There's a good reason the only shooters still using it are third-person based. The fact that a defect is in a good game, like HL1, doesn't make it not a defect.
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David Carradine promoting Spiral Fitness
06/18/11, 14:54
Oh, inanimate carbon rod, is there nothing you can't do?
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Clever Polar Bear Stalks Seal
06/18/11, 14:30
That needs to be a .gif file.
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Buggy Saints Row - The Musical
06/18/11, 13:16
Great idea, somewhat wasted on boring footage. It's almost hard to find clips of SR2 that dull, glitches or otherwise.
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Giant Bomb's 52 minute 'Quick Look' of Duke Nukem Forever
06/18/11, 12:42
Most of the time, they are enthusiastically mocking the game. But during the hive level it just becomes silence, punctuated by dispirited sighs and occasional glimpses of anger at having to play this.
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