I'm not sure if it's willful ignorance or a genuine lack of rudimentary social skills, but it seems like every time atheists make some sort of public display, they end up looking like douchebags.

Like for example, this display which they posted next to a nativity scene in Olympia, Washington.  It reads:

At this season of
THE WINTER SOLSTICE
may ( Read more... )

Joe Rogan is a modern Renaissance man:  comedian, TV personality, jiu-jitsu brown belt, Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator, and advocate for psychedelic drugs.  If you haven't heard this rant about DMT, you're in for a treat.

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Obama knocks it out of the park with this one.  If you haven't seen it yet, check it out!

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Well, this puts things in perspective.

An estimated 30-40 telemarketers walked off the job at Americall in Indiana rather than read a script provided by the McCain campaign.

Since robo-calls are illegal in Indiana, the campaign has to get real humans to read their scripts to people.  And several of the humans in question said fuck this!  The ( Read more... )

What can Derren Brown do with a voodoo doll?

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I think this guy might be Satan.

This guy blows my mind and I've been watching everything I can find by him on youtube.  He's a hypnotist and magician with a strong psychological bent and pulls off some amazing stunts.

In these videos Derren poses as a Christian evangelist who converts people by touch.

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Once you've watched those, here is a pretty good explanation of ( Read more... )

For possibly the first time in my adult life, I am officially out of credit card debt.  It's been a long struggle, and it often felt like I was owned by these companies.  Back in 2004, coming off 10 months of unemployment, I was over $14K in the hole to my cards and not sure if or how I would ever dig myself out of that hole.  One card had a 25.9% ( Read more... )

Okay, I knew he was a bright guy and a brilliant speaker, but I didn't know he could do this.

Tonight the candidates came together for a roast at the Alfred Smith charity dinner.  Obama does some wicked stand up and verbally destroys Rudy Giuliani.

I haven't watched McCain's bit yet.  I just had to post this. Leave a comment  1 

Renowned bonobo chimpanzee expert Sue Savage-Rumbaugh gives a talk at TED.

Her contentions about the unimportance of genes seem to me ridiculous and intellectually irresponsible, and the claim that bonobos use language should have been qualified with the caveat that it's not clear that they use grammar.  Their comprehension is impressive, but when ( Read more... )