Archive for May, 2007

Your Logic Eats Itself

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

After that extended Dawkins/McGrath debate, I needed a Stephen Colbert chaser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOdAmGexeZ4

Dawkins Interviews Alister McGrath

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

From the Richard Dawkins web site:
This interview was filmed for the TV documentary The Root of All Evil? but was left out of the final version. Time restrictions dictated that not all interviews filmed could be used. This was especially regrettable in the case of the McGrath interview, which is therefore offered here now, unedited.
McGrath […]

Your Face

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

I finally bought the DVD of the documentary Fuck, (previously mentioned here) which I thoroughly enjoyed and which I think any serious advocate of free speech should see.
Incidentally, Bill Plympton provides interstitial animation throughout the film and contributes an interview to the DVD’s supplemental features. Seeing his work again brought back fond memories of seeing […]

New T-Shirt Design

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I am surrounded by idoits.
For the flawed evil genius in you™

Available in unisex and women’s styles in the newly-opened Geek Humor section of the Ironwolf Shop.

Arguing with Biblical Literalists

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

I don’t usually spend much time debating with theists on their own blogs— they tend to suddenly get raptured out of existence with alarming frequency— but today I made an exception.
In my surfing I came across the remarkable Blogs 4 Brownback, a blog devoted to either getting religio-conservative-wingnut Sam Brownback elected president, or proving the […]

Belief-O-Matic

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Ending today’s quiz-spree are my results from the all-knowing Belief-O-Matic. No surprises here.

1. 
Secular Humanism (100%)

2. 
Unitarian Universalism (93%)

3. 
Nontheist (74%)

4. 
Liberal Quakers (74%)

5. 
Theravada Buddhism (69%)

6. 
Neo-Pagan (65%)

7. 
Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (61%)

8. 
Taoism (51%)

9. 
New Age (50%)

10. 
Reform Judaism (45%)

11. 
Mahayana […]

Who Would I Vote For?

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

According to this quiz, I’m a Kucinich man.

1. 
Theoretical Ideal Candidate   (100%)

2. 
Dennis Kucinich   (72%)

3. 
Barack Obama   (68%)

4. 
Kent McManigal   (67%)

5. 
Joseph Biden   (63%)

6. 
Hillary Clinton   (63%)

7. 
Wesley Clark   (60%)

8. 
Ron Paul   (59%)

9. 
Al Gore   (58%)

10. 
Christopher Dodd   (56%)

11. 
Bill Richardson   (55%)

12. 
John Edwards   (54%)

13. 
John McCain   (47%)

14. 
Mike Gravel   (45%)

15. 
Rudolph Giuliani   (41%)

16. 
Chuck Hagel   (35%)

17. 
Mitt Romney   (35%)

18. 
Newt Gingrich   (33%)

19. 
Elaine Brown   (30%)

20. 
Tommy Thompson   (29%)

21. 
Mike Huckabee   (28%)

22. 
Sam Brownback   (28%)

23. 
Tom Tancredo   (26%)

24. 
Fred […]

What Kind of Atheist Am I?

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Apparently a scientific/spiritual one. Good call.

You scored as Scientific Atheist. These guys rule. They know the rules of debate, the Laws of Thermodynamics, and can explain evolution in fifty words or less. More concerned with how things ARE than how they should be, these are the people who will bring us into the future. […]

American Accents

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

This test pretty much pegged mine.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West

 

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be […]

Carrots, yeah right.

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Even though the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design debate has cooled off a little since the Kitzmiller decision, there are more people than ever who now rally around the Intelligent Design banner. So I’m glad the more rationally-minded among us are still at it with pieces like the 2006 documentary Flock of Dodos, which contains the […]