January 2011
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Fox News Fundies - 100 mya Croc(k)
Here’s a fun game you can play at home. Go to the Fox News website. Click SciTech. Click Dinosaurs (though many other sub-categories will also do). Click any article. Look at the comments. The riches you can discover and many and varied. One of the easiest gems to find is the argument of the Young Earth Creationist. Hardly surprising, given that dinosaurs are “millions of years...
Jan 30th
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Jan 10th
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Devout or Decapitated?
I saw this over at io9 and I just had to share. In a US ruled by communism, a little boy with Ray Martin’s hair must make an important choice! It gets better… You’ve probably guessed that this film was made by Christians as a propaganda weapon against communism. You might want to turn off your irony meter for this next scene, lest it overload. The horror! Sitting...
Jan 10th
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Without Excuse
A recent After Eden comic caught my attention as I browsed my RSS feeds. I can remember seeing other comics by the same author that seemed contradictory. After a short search, I found an example. (Click either image to see the original.) So which is it? The first comic mentions Genesis 3, where Adam and Eve are kicked out of Eden for eating the apple. Before this original sin, every...
Jan 9th
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Team America Tricks MPAA
I recently watched a documentary called This Film is Not Yet Rated. It’s about the MPAA. I strongly recommend it. The MPAA is a black box. Whatever guidelines they may have for rating movies are not shared with the outside world. Given Matt Stone’s story about how his team “tricked” the MPAA, I reckon they work on emotion more than anything taxonomic. I doubt you...
Jan 5th
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