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Monthly Archives: March 2009
“The Serious Me Show”: A YouTube Video by Santi Tafarella
Okay, I couldn’t resist. After making one YouTube video, I tried another one:
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Tagged comedy, funny, grandiosity, humor, laughs, narcissism, psychology, serious me, the serious me show, twitter
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“Waiting for God”: A Short YouTube Video by Santi Tafarella
Today I made my first foray onto YouTube by setting up an account at XtraNormal.com. XtraNormal.com is a FREE animated video production site where you can mash together scene and character templates to create stories. You can then download them to YouTube. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, drama, eschatology, Freud, Jesus, life, philosophy, psychology, religion, the second coming, theater, waiting for godot
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Kutiman Mash-Ups are Really Beautiful, and They Take YouTube to a New Level
Here’s the idea: Take already existing YouTube videos of musicians and singers, pull snippets from them, mash them, and turn them into NEW and original pieces of WORLD MUSIC. That’s what a brilliant 26 year old Israeli has started doing, bringing YouTube to … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, dance, Israel, jazz, kutiman, life, love, music, poetry, song, world music, youtube
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Human Carbon Emissions are Not a Serious Problem: The Bible Says It, Representative John Shimkus Believes It, That Settles It
God decides when the earth will end (so we don’t have to think about it too much): I feel so much better knowing that John Shimkus is in Washington making environmental policy decisions based on his reading of passages from … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian fundamentalism, creationism, ecology, environment, evolution, Genesis, Jesus, John Macarthur, john shimkus, science, the Bible
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Studio Portrait of Kurt Klein, Age Two
Studio portrait, from 1922, of two-year-old Kurt Klein. In 1937, Kurt Klein’s parents sent him to live with relatives in Buffalo, New York. His parents, unable to immigrate, died at Auschwitz in 1942. According to the U.S. Holocaust Museum archives: Kurt was … Continue reading
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Tagged adolf hitler, Auschwitz, buffalo, death, fascism, Germany, Holocaust, Judaism, life, new york, the problem of evil, totalitarianism
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Josh Marshall on Kindlemania
Josh Marshall just read a book on his wife’s Kindle, and quickly perceived its implication for the old tree-based technology. Marshall thinks that the book is going down in the same way that the newspaper is going down. Timber!: I’ve always been an … Continue reading
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Tagged books, e ink, gutenburg, history, Josh Marshall, kindle, kindlemania, literature, newspapers, poetry, technology
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DITCHKINS: A Book Review of Terry Eagleton’s “Reason, Faith, and Revelation: Reflections on the God Debate” (Yale, 2009)
Literary critic Terry Eagleton, who is, insofar as I can tell, an atheist himself, nevertheless engages in a nuanced take-down of some of the pretenses associated with contemporary atheism. He focuses in particular on the two most articulate writers within … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, ditchkins, Jesus, philosophy, religion, Richard Dawkins, Terry Eagleton
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Russian Fascism: Xenophobia and Racism Directed Toward Immigrants
CNN does a segment on a paranoid, violent, and authoritarian Russian subculture:
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Tagged authoritarianism, fascism, immigrants, immigration, psychology, racism, Russia, social psychology
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This is What Democracy Looks Like? The G20 Economic Summit in London Could See Massive Protests and Violence
I generally support these types of demonstrations. It keeps democratic pressure on politicians. But the hanging of bankers in effigy? No thanks to that emotionally sick man’s hate projections and dehumanization of others. Keep the demonstrations nonviolent, hippie-positive, and life affirming. No … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, economy, fascism, G20, hippies, leftist activism, Marxism, Politics, protest, social psychology
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A Trip Down Sodomy Lane with Mike Huckabee and Ann Coulter
In January, Mike told Ann he’s against them Sodomites. Scout’s honor: Ain’t the contemporary Republican Party grand?
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Tagged bigotry, evangelicals, feminism, gay marriage, gay rights, Genesis, homophobia, Jesus, lesbianism, mormonism, Sodom, utah
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Tricks or Tweets? Twittering Ghostwriters Behind the Machines
Who are all these people who have time to follow the tweets of stars and politicians? And could anything be more pathetic—or wasteful of a human being’s time? Well, yes, there is something more pathetic and wasteful. It turns out that … Continue reading
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Tagged America, books, literature, media, newspapers, technology, tweets, twitter, twittering, writing
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A New DVD Documentary: Gay Christians Talk about Their Struggles with Being Gay
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Tagged Christianity, feminism, feminist, gay rights, gay rights movement, homosexual rights, lesbian, life, love, Politics, same-sex marriage, sex
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You Are More Than Neurons Firing in Your Head?
Naturalism starts with the assumption that there is only one world, not two. It’s one of the things that distinguishes atheists and agnostics from theists (who think that there is a “universe next door”, a supernatural world, too). So what could … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, alva noe, apologetics, atheist, Christianity, consciousness, mind, naturalism, philosophy, psychology, religion, science
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