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Obama’s Weekly Address of hope
This week’s ‘weekly address’ from President-elect Obama has a message of real change. Not in government, but in how humans work together to better each other instead of focussing on our own wants and needs alone.
President-elect Obama and Secular America
One of the many reasons I voted for President-elect Obama (I love saying that). I wanted a president that understands secularism and its importance in American government.
President-elect Obama’s full ‘Call to Renewal’ speech.
Wassup Obama!
True dat.
Pipe Wrench Fight!
What if the lyrics to those catchy 80s songs actually told the story that was portrayed in their whacked-out artsy videos? You might get something like this…
Be sure to check out their remake of Tears for Fears’ Head Over Heels as well.
Tip o’ the pipe wrench to the creators.
Via: Pharyngula
You F*cking GO GIRL!
*Swoon*
Oh, Hellzzz Yeah!
So, now that you have some proper motivation. Go! Post a blog entry, comment on one (or more), make a video or whatever you can. Make your voice heard. Stand up for your secular American rights.
Palin on ‘Pyramid’
Be sure to check out all of Edward Current’s videos on YouTube.
I love you, Tina Fey
I had to edit this post due to NBC’s crap embed code that breaks my site design.
DO IT! Like, Nowsville.
I mean it. NOW! You’ve only got a few days left. So stop reading this and go register. I did. It only took me a couple seconds. You can spare a couple of seconds, right? For your future, I mean. Right?
Congratulations Space X!
A little bit of history was made Sunday evening at 23:16 GMT when Space X’s two-stage Falcon 1 rocket successfully made it into Earth orbit.
After three failed attempts, Space X has become the first privately owned company to send a rocket into orbit. A warm congratulations go out to everyone involved. I can’t imagine how excited they all must feel, but the cheers in the background of the video above give you some idea.
Awesome and utterly awe-inspiring! Keep an eye out around the 3:00 marker (after stage 1 separation) when the edge of Earth appears in the upper-left corner of the screen. I’m almost at a loss for words. This is just amazing.
Seriously… congratulations to everyone at Space X! You’re all heroes in my book.
The future is in our hands
A Concerned Matt Damon
And rightfully so.
Via: Ungodly Cynic
Jon Stewart lets the Republicans eat their own words
I sometimes wonder if these people remember that the videos of their previous statements are still around.
UPDATE: I don’t know why Comedy Central makes videos embeddable if they’re just going to remove them later. As a result, I will not be ’sharing’ anymore Daily Show clips. Sorry.
Lightning in slow motion
I think ‘wow’ is the word I’m looking for.
How does the Bible explain suffering?
Bart Ehrman has done extensive research into the historical roots of Christianity as well as written several books on the subject. His latest book is ‘God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer‘ dealing with, as you might guess, how the Bible tries to explain suffering in a world ruled by an all-loving and all-powerful benefactor. He recently gave this lecture at UC Berkley on the same subject and I think its worth watching.
Although I agree with pretty much everything Ehrman has to say regarding the lecture’s topic, one of his answers at the end struck me as odd. Ehrman seems to think Sam Harris blames religion for ‘all’ the evils in the world. I think he may have mixed up some of the ‘New Atheist’ authors since Harris, if any of them, pleas for more scientific study of all things spiritual. Christopher Hitchens’s book ‘God is not Great’ carries the subtitle ‘How Religion Poisons Everything’ and Richard Dawkins created the BBC series ‘Root of all Evils’ (though he disagreed with the BBC’s title choice) but Sam Harris’s main argument is that an evidence-based reality trumps a faith-based one.
My other main problem is Ehrman’s apologetic claim of a fundemental divide between science and religion. He belives in a point where the questions must be handed off to theologians to answer. But the supernatural beliefs at the core’s of religions are scientific claims. The question of the existence of a supernatural creator being in the universe is a scientific question with a yes or no answer. There is no philosophical, historical or theological way around that statement. The supernatural being that a large percentage of the world believes in either exists within reality or it doesn’t.
Aside from those small observations I highly recommend Ehrman’s previous books and his Teaching Company lectures. I’ll be picking up God’s Problem soon.
A little Saturday morning nostalgia [Things I Miss]
30 mins. of 80’s cartoon intros
30 mins. of 90’s cartoon intros
