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Dawkins Raps, You Laugh

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Thanks to Maitri, you get to see Richard Dawkins rap along with Sam Harris, Charles Darwin, and the rest of evolution’s Horsemen. I’m still laughing at Christopher Hitchens with a blunt and the line, “Hell, if I was dyslexic, I’d hate dog too.” Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGgpGLxLQw

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Gaffe Du Jour

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Full disclaimer; I’m not a Hillary Clinton fan. But, this video about Bosnia… what the hell was she thinking? This doesn’t make sense on so many levels, I can’t figure it out. I really can’t believe she’s that oblivious to the documentation that would have existed around a First Lady visiting a war-torn region. Why […]

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Know Your Enemy

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Slight backstory: There is a movie currently being screened for very select crowds called EXPELLED!, hosted by Ben Stein. It is, essentially, creationist propaganda about how colleges and universities are evil for promoting science and not religious dogma in their classes (here’s a trailer, if you have 8 minutes to sacrifice). It has, predictably, come […]

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Arthur C Clarke Dead at 90

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I wish I had a long remembrance of Mr. Clarke, but I don’t. I’ve read much of his short stories, a couple novels, but, aside from 2001 and a collection of shorts (which included The Sentinel, the pre-cursor to 2001), I always found the person of Mr. Clarke more interesting than his writing. His That’s […]