Entries Categorized as 'Politics'

Fox News Compares Gays to Terrorists

Date June 4, 2010

Bill O’Reilly wonders when McDonalds will have an Al Qaeda advertisement to compliment their current “Gay Commercial” that is making the rounds in France. Stay classy, Fox News. Here is the commercial

The Anti-BP Movement

Date June 2, 2010

You won’t find many fans of BP online these days. The anti-BP sentiments have been fueling Internet communities lately, leading to some creative and stirring images in protest of the company’s disastrous handling of the oil spill disaster. For The Kids: Fewer things speak more directly to children than portraying their favorite characters dead… …or [...]

Geico Voiceover Guy Responds To The Tea Party

Date May 18, 2010

Voice actor DC Douglas was fired from Geico after leaving a drunken voicemail at Tea Party HQ Freedomworks. He’s back with an important, moving PSA: Please, please, don’t drunk dial the Tea Party. NSFW Language

Dawkins: If Science Worked Like Religion

Date May 5, 2010

A clip from Richard Dawkins’ Lecture at UC Berkeley.

Alex Gibney’s Casino Jack & the United States of Money Trailer

Date April 6, 2010

Another great political documentary is hitting theaters soon. Apple has debuted the official trailer for Alex Gibney’s Casino Jack and the United States of Money, a portrait of Washington super lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is currently serving four years in prison. Why should you care? Besides the fascinating topic, Alex Gibney is the filmmaker behind [...]

Philip Pullman on censorship and free speech — pithy and wonderful

Date March 30, 2010

Philip Pullman, addressing an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, was asked about whether his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, was offensive. Here’s his reply: “It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to [...]

Fair & Balanced

Date March 5, 2010

PALIN: I studied journalism, my college degree there in communications. And now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think the mainstream media is quite broken and I think there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there — that’s why I joined Fox. Fair and balanced, [...]

Stephen Fry speaks about Catholicism

Date February 9, 2010

A remarkable 20-minute lecture at The Intelligence² Debate.  After a few introductory disclaimers about having no objections to piety or religious belief in general, Fry proceeds to lambast the Catholic church for its historical (and current) dogmas and dictates, especially regarding their policies about sex (his analogy about food/sex aberrancies at about 16:00 is particularly [...]

California Gay-Marriage Battle: Round 2

Date January 6, 2010

Here’s a good overview of the bigtime gay-marriage case that starts next week in San Francisco. The legal case that gay-rights activists feared to see is about to get under way in a federal courtroom in San Francisco. For the next several weeks, plaintiffs will argue that the U.S. Constitution forbids states from restricting marriage [...]

Dan Savage on Gay Adoption

Date January 5, 2010