For me, reason.tv is the new Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. I love it. Last week, its showcase - The Drew Carey Project - produced the 7+ minute video: Mexicans and Machines: Why it’s time to lay off NAFTA.
For those with less than 7 minutes to spare, Carey pushes the protectionist credo (against NAFTA, “cheap labor” [...]
A great comedian died yesterday, one that rallied against mysticism for reason, against government censorship for free expression.
Of course, he spewed a lot of irrational anti-business rhetoric as well, but at the very least my college English professor was incorrect about him authoring that platitude-of-platitudes, the Paradox of our Times. George Carlin may have been [...]
The second NoFx song in my NLADP series (first one here), this one arguing against marijuana prohibition via the principles of self-ownership and personal autonomy. Lyrical excerpt below:
Why be sad when happiness can be bought for a little more then free
Modern day prohibition
Are we men? Are we children?
At what age can I choose how to [...]
Err-The Happening.
Laughable marketing strategy. The previews have that cliché, scary movie-voice quivering:
From Director M. Night Shyamalan comes his first R-rated film.
Haha. Just reading it makes me laugh. But I suppose 6th graders will be impressed.
Rumor is the content mirrors the marketing.
Extremism in Defense of Liberty dismisses it as
nothing more than a piece of crass, anti-humanist [...]
A message of self-affirmation, free speech and anti-conscription.
Eminem - Square Dance
Hipster rap. Not segregationist, not white-washing. It’s just fun.
From this week’s Reader, an argument that ought to be thoughtfully considered within the entire race debate:
Oh Word blogger Sach O claims hipster rap is “intended for an affluent, generally educated white audience wanting to dabble in the excesses of black music absent from more restrained contemporary [...]
Remember the punk/ska movement of the late ’90s? I was in high school and it was a pretty big deal. Definitely the trendiest music-wave I’ve ever lived through and I, yes, I embraced it…with blind, groundless elitism.
An odd psychology, indeed…one that celebrated its underground quality, its exclusiveness, in a totally ostentatious manner. I mean, I [...]
The Office. As a whole, this season has been a whole bunch of okay, fairly unimpressive really (tonight’s season finale was a pleasant exception). They need more Creed:
Moving on, I’ve been meaning to put up this video for a while now, courtesy of RightWave:
CNN takes a hit on Americans for Prosperity for their Hot Air [...]
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Coming from Boing Boing:
The Get Out Clause, an unsigned Manchester band who could not afford a camera crew for their video, ‘performed’ in front of a load of CCTV cameras, requested the footage from the camera operators under the Data Protection Act and then stitched the results together [...]
Finally, I explain the seemingly nebulous Nietzschian reference. Whoo! Actually, as it turns out, I had already explained it long ago. From a religious studies paper I wrote in 2005 for Robert Williams (my fav professor at UIC):
…life’s ultimate spheres of expression…the two fundamental drives that govern the world. These drives or spheres–inherently opposed to [...]
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