Archive for October, 2007

“We counted on him, and we were fools”

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Here’s a brief audio excerpt from last Thursday’s Daily Show. Jon Stewart is talking with John Hodgman about the decline in the value of the dollar. (If you’re reading this via RSS, you’ll need to visit my web site to see the Flash player.) You need a Flash plug-in to hear this!

White Heaven

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

I’ve never watched The Boondocks, because I never liked the comic strip. However, my Tivo decided to record one for me. It was actually pretty funny. Here’s the opening segment from that episode: [Video removed by those fascists at Viascum]

Christians United for Israel

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

(Image from What Would Charles Martel Do?) John Hagee is senior pastor of the 19,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. He has his own worldwide TV/radio ministry, which is rather egotistically named the John Hagee Ministries. As bad as all of that is, his real claim to infamy comes from the fact that he [...]

Conservapedia: Quote Mining or Super-Weaners?

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I visit Conservapedia every now and then for a laugh. Since creationists are always quote mining, I thought it would be fun to see what Conservapedia has to say on this topic. A good (genuine) definition of quote mining is on the Info Pollution web site: Quote mining is looking through large amounts of material [...]