Archive for the ‘Audio’ Category

Fanatical Fundies Fear Freedom

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Wouldn’t making people spin in mid-air when
you yell at them be a great superpower?
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I discovered a good interview program on the local low-power NPR affiliate. It’s called Your Call. [...]

James Dobson: The Musical

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

(From Maddox)
I found this song over on the WFMU blog. It’s a top ten hit from 1948, starring Arthur Godfrey. Here’s part of what they write about it:
The subject matter (and, yes, I realized the 1948 version of what’s acceptable differs from the 2009 version) is bad enough. The song extols the [...]

Eugenie Scott on Science Friday

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

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Few people anger the creationists more than Eugenie Scott. She actively opposes their efforts to get religion into the schools under whichever euphemism they’re currently peddling.
She was on Science Friday yesterday to give us a summary of the whole Texas School Board science standards fiasco. We’ve discussed that here previously, [...]

WTF Skeptics’ Circle

Monday, March 16th, 2009

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The latest Skeptics’ Circle was posted a few days ago at The Skeptic’s Field Guide. It happens to be a podcast, so you can hear them talk about each article in the carnival.
These guys seem to call their podcast “Hunting Humbug”, and apparently it’s devoted primarily to logical fallacies. That [...]

Quote Mining Obama

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

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Here is the post I tried to write last night, before I went off on a tangent of trying to find an appropriate graphic.
This is just a quick off-topic post. Barack Obama recorded the audio-book version of Dreams of My Father himself. Somebody thought it would be funny to extract [...]

A Charlie & Tammy Faye Christmas

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

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Now we come to the finale of our Christmas music series. Christmas music by actual Christians! Yes, a few [...]

Strange Christmas Albums, Part 2

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

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Here are a few more peculiar Christmas albums that I found on the internet.
Hey Shirley, This is Squirrely

Shirley wants to grab [...]

Strange Christmas Albums, Part 1

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

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Christmas is a peculiar holiday. It started off as a pagan solstice celebration, was co-opted by Christianity, then was co-opted [...]