Yes, I am a month behind on this, but if you haven’t seen Beware the Believers yet, now is your second chance. I’m not sure exactly what side of the Evolution - ID battle the creators of this video support, but don’t miss it. (PZ apparently thinks they are coming down on the side of the good guys - link also has a brief sequel and full credits)
This is why mankind created the Internets
I saw this on Pharyngula earlier:
MR. GIBSON: So we’re going to begin with opening statements, and we had a flip of the coin, and the brief opening statement first from Mr. Lincoln.
LINCOLN: Thank you very much, Charlie and George, and thanks to all in the audience and who are out there. I appear before you today for the purpose of discussing the leading political topics which now agitate the public mind.
We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m sorry to interrupt, but do you think Mr. Douglas loves America as much you do?
LINCOLN: Sure I do.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But who loves America more?
LINCOLN: I’d prefer to get on with my opening statement George.
STEPHANOPOULOS: If your love for America were eight apples, how many apples would Senator Douglas’s love be?
LINCOLN: Eight.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Proceed.
LINCOLN: In my opinion, slavery will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Excuse me, did an Elijah H. Johnson attend your church?
LINCOLN: When I was a boy in Illinois forty years ago, yes. I think he was a deacon.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you aware that he regularly called Kentucky “a land of swine and whores”?
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What if Shakespeare had written Pulp Fiction?
ACT I SCENE 2. A road, morning. Enter a carriage, with JULES and VINCENT, murderers.
J: And know’st thou what the French name cottage pie?
V: Say they not cottage pie, in their own tongue?
J: But nay, their tongues, for speech and taste alike
Are strange to ours, with their own history:
Gaul knoweth not a cottage from a house.
V: What say they then, pray?
J: Hachis Parmentier.
V: Hachis Parmentier! What name they cream?
J: Cream is but cream, only they say le crème.
V: What do they name black pudding?
J: I know not;
I visited no inn it could be bought.
link (via BoingBoing)
They have released the video for their new single from their upcoming album NARROW STAIRS.
Reviews of this one are mixed at my house. I love the creepy repetitive nature of the song. My wife dislikes it, because, in her words, “It’s creepy, and too repetitive.”
This was seen coming, but I’m glad it held up. Let’s see if the big media companies will actually pay attention to it.
Obama landed a lead of nine delegates to the national convention thanks to Texas’ caucuses, upheld in today’s county conventions. Despite the Clinton campaign’s widespread attempts to prevent many Texans from participating in their district convention, the voters of Texas confirmed Senator Obama’s important delegate win in the Lone Star State.
Answer: Quite possibly the experimental indie rock band out of Minneapolis known as Cloud Cult.
And this is very important because their newest album, Feel Good Ghosts (Teapartying Through Tornadoes), is officially releasing on April 8th. And they already have it available for download on their website for $10. I’ve uploaded Story of the Grandson of Jesus, track 9 on the album and my favorite so far, as an experiment and you can listen to it in the player below. (I haven’t used the Wordtube plugin before so if you are having trouble playing it, leave a comment or send me a note.) I bought this CD about 2 weeks from their web site and haven’t taken it out of my CD player yet.
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I guess my wife was right.
Hopefully, we’ll be telling our grandkids about this one.
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