1. I love the commercialisation of Christmas

Comment #14119 by Badger on December 21, 2006 at 7:48 am

as far as I'm aware christmas is the third most important feastday in the christian calendar with good friday and easter day being the more important. These are not celebrated as much so it must be the commercialism that makes christmas/winter solstice so popular

2. Reading of The God Delusion in Lynchburg, VA

Comment #6155 by Badger on November 12, 2006 at 10:49 pm

I've posted the video on YouTube for all those poor souls frustrated by QuickTime. RealPlayer also works with .mov files these days, but here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Y7lhqkiig

I have to say, I saw the recent South Park crap... I've met Professor Dawkins and he can be playfully childlike on the stage and then horribly curt face-to-face, which feels like an overt slap. But this is how all serious professors (especially the British) tend to be, and I suspect it is in self defense more than anything else... so the sick images conjured up for Comedy Central viewwers on his behalf do nothing but demonstrate just how low the cheap gimmick of "not taking anything seriously" can go. I guess it might be fun to insult everyone in your world, without having a point to it, particularly when you know nobody's going to do it back to you (because you are so pathetically irrelevant). But it is, ultimately, pointless, and blatantly denigrates the human species. Why bother? I was mistaken to think South Park was a vehicle to accomplish something. Maybe this is just Parker & Stone covering their butts after all the religious people they've upset.