Archive for the 'cultural' Category



Shame on YouTube

UPDATE: This has been overturned. Good job YouTube!
Pat Condell has the most subscriptions of any comic on YouTube. He has been making candid, no-holds-barred critiques of British society, Muslim theocracy and religion in general for quite some time.
Recently YouTube threatened to suspend his account, and pulled his latest video on Sharia law in […]

Zeitgeist, the movie

A few people had recommended the movie Zeitgeist to me, so I watched it. I tried once, and turned it off after ten minutes, but then a few weeks later watched it all the way through, just so I could write this review.
Part I, The Greatest Story Ever Told, debunks the Jesus myth by […]

Dry grad gives me the dry heaves

I saw an ad for Dry Grad in the liquor store a while back. This is where parents organize a party for their kids to celebrate graduating from high school, a party with no alcohol to protect their precious little angels from the death and destruction that awaits all who imbibe such evil toxins.
When […]

Communication woes

So, the other day I was helping this self-proclaimed Luddite install some software.
I would never criticize someone for simply not knowing something.  We all have different experiences, and there’s more than enough knowledge to go around.   I’m always (okay, often) happy to help.
What bothered me was the pride behind the proclamation.   It’s reverse […]

yeah, that sounds right

I just read a great comment that I had to share… In an article criticizing Richard Dawkins as misguidedly anti-semitic, David Berreby (inadvertently) points out that atheists sometimes fall victim to the very type of thinking that causes the in-group rantings they are usually railing against. Well, duh…
Berreby’s argument is based on […]

Sam’s the man!

Not the highest traffic blog in the world eh? heh heh
I shared this awesome article by Sam Harris but I wanted to repost it and comment on it anyway.
Sam makes two points crystal clear. One, that atheism as a movement or calling ourselves atheists is counterproductive. And silly. And two, that […]

SiCKO feels good

So, I finally saw Michael Moore’s SiCKO tonight, and it blew me away.
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to be blown away. Something about Fahrenheit 9/11
didn’t sit well with me. I don’t think I ever really knew what it was that I didn’t like; whatever it was, I was more than a little […]