“A Girl Like Me”

Blown away by this short documentary from a 16 year old black girl… Take some time and watch…

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This is more than a year old, but I just stumbled upon it…

TED Talks: Murray Gell-Mann

This just got posted on the TED site… If you’ve ever heard this man speak, you know you’re in for a treat…
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Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and Truth In Physics
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Christopher Hitchens: An American Hero?

Hitch’s comments about Mitt Romney have inspired me to post this video. Hitch, you are my cowboy protectorate. Thank you, sir!

Mitt’s Speech…

Here is the full speech he gave about his faith and “Faith in America”…
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And, because I love Hitch and despise Mitt, here’s some of Hitchen’s response to this speech…

Romney does not understand the difference between deism and theism, nor does he know the first thing about the founding of the United States. Jefferson’s Declaration may invoke a “Creator,” but, as he went on to show in the battle over the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, he and most of his peers did not believe in a god who intervened in human affairs or in a god who had sent a son for a human sacrifice. These easily ascertainable facts are reflected in the way that the U.S. Constitution does not make any mention of a superintendent deity and in the way that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention declined an offer (possibly sarcastic), even from Benjamin Franklin, that they resort to prayer to compose their differences. Romney may throw a big chest and say that God should be “on our currency, in our pledge,” and of course on our public land in this magic holiday season, but James Madison did not think that there should be chaplains opening the proceedings of Congress or even appointed as ministers in the U.S. armed forces. Trying to dodge around this, and to support his assertion that the founders were religious in the Christian sense, Romney drones on about a barely relevant moment of emotion in 1774 and comes up with the glib slogan that “freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.” Any fool can think of an example where freedom exists without religion—and even more easily of an instance where religion exists without (or in negation of) freedom.
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According to the admittedly very contradictory scriptures of the New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth warned his disciples and followers that they should expect to be ridiculed and mocked for their faith. After all, how likely was it that God had decided to reveal himself to only a few illiterate peasants in a barbarous backwater? Those who elected to believe this stuff were quite rightly told to expect a hard time, and the expression “fool for God” or “fool for Christ” has been with us ever since. That concept has some dignity and nobility. Entirely lacking in dignity or nobility (or average integrity) is the well-heeled son of a gold-plated church who wants to assume the pained look of martyrdom only when he is asked if he actually believes what he says. A long time ago, Romney took the decision to be a fool for Joseph Smith, a convicted fraud and serial practitioner of statutory rape who at times made war on the United States and whose cult has been made to amend itself several times in order to be considered American at all. We do not require pious lectures on the American founding from such a man, and we are still waiting for some straight answers from him.

Olbermann’s Special Comment…

Great special comment last night (12-06-07) from Keith…

I SIT ON YOU: tim and eric

From the latest episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! If you haven’t seen it, you’re missing one of the best things on television maybe ever. Some episodes are available to watch on adultswim.com. Salame!

Best Kane & Lynch Review EVAR!!!1!11!

Maybe you folks haven’t been following Jeff-gate, as it has become known on the interwebtubes… This sums it up pretty well…

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Fuck Gamespot… just so you know…

I wish Rudy would read a history book…

…and not just whatever document prepared by his handlers is shoved in his face.

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It certainly looks bad that the release of the hostages occurred within an hour of Reagan’s swearing in, but that doesn’t mean Reagan’s swearing in caused their release. Many sources I’ve read have shown, quite undeniably to me, that the Carter Administration negotiated the deal that released the hostages (read: pots ‘o gold handed over ($8 billion)). Their holding onto the Americans until Reagan was in office was, perhaps, a big “fuck you” to the Carter people for standing so tough on their position.

In more controversial reading spaces it was the Reagan people who brokered a deal with the Iranians so that Reagan would look like King Fucking Kong; strolling into the White House and without a word scarring those towel wearing motherfuckers into releasing the Americans. (I’m not racist, that’s not racist, don’t say it is, that was the neo-cons view… I love those towel wearing motherfuckers.. well not love… See it’s a complicated relationship dating back hundreds of years which…)

On the upside of this ad I’m happily surprised he didn’t mention 9/11 or show the video of the planes flying in moments before impact…

In other news, in the latest GQ Huckabee says if we make gay marriage legal, we will implode as a society…

Is the strategy shifting because social conservatives are losing on those core issues? Ten years ago, it would have been unimaginable to have gay marriage even in liberal Massachusetts. Now it’s there.

I don’t think the issue’s about being against gay marriage. It’s about being for traditional marriage and articulating the reason that’s important. You have to have a basic family structure. There’s never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. So there is a sense in which, you know, it’s one thing to say if people want to live a different way, that’s their business. But when you want to redefine what family means or what marriage means, then that’s an issue that should require some serious and significant debate in the public square. And if you look at states that have had it on the ballot—I know in our state it was a 70-percent-against issue. Most states are similar to that.

“The Family Unit” has gone through such drastic shifts (without public debate) over the past hundred years. Just fucking say a book tells you you can’t change things, at least be honest, and drop that whole Chuck Norris thing… That’s really, really done as a meme now that you picked it up… Dickface…

Hey Mr. Thompson

So, this is a little older (mid November), but I fucking hate “Hey There Delilah”, and this does a great job of making the lyrics mean something whilst giving a big “Fuck You” to Jackie-boy…