Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah produced a two-part video designed to test the theory that “the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” In the first segment, he went through a gun training workshop in Florida to become eligible for a concealed carry permit that isContinue reading “Jordan Klepper: Good Guy with a Gun”
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Steve Cutts, “Man”
The short film “Man” by Steve Cutts: Check out “In the Fall” too: and then “The Walk Home”: I think he’s negatively life-affirming: he affirms life by reminding us of all the ways we’re killing it right now.
Steve Martin and the Atheist Hymnal
Updated 29th May at 10:35 a.m. with a discussion of atheism as a methodological assumption and of miracles. Updated May 25th at 9:40 p.m. with another video and a Type 4 atheism: “Christian atheism.” Scroll down to check them out. My Facebook buddy Artur Sebastian Rosman recently posted to his FB group Cosmos in theContinue reading “Steve Martin and the Atheist Hymnal”
Jack White Quitting Rock!
Yes, you heard it here first: Jack White is quitting rock and roll to take up crochet. Just read the last line of this interview.
Great Commentary on the Charlie Hebdo Tragedy
The following video is commentary on the Charlie Hebdo shootings by John Ficarra, editor of Mad Magazine. To me, the most important thing that he said is that whenever Mad Magazine criticized Jerry Falwell or the Roman Catholic Church it assumed a shared set of values: that the worst that would happen is a stern letter from a lawyer (whichContinue reading “Great Commentary on the Charlie Hebdo Tragedy”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 