1. Springer opera court fight fails

Comment #94684 by Greg23 on December 6, 2007 at 8:59 am

it's out on DVD!

2. Springer opera court fight fails

Comment #94340 by Greg23 on December 5, 2007 at 11:10 am

I saw this musical at the Fringe in 2002. I thought it was quite good. The funny thing was, we in America know that Jerry is a pretty intelligent guy and just does his show as theater and to make a buck (euros would be better). The audience at the Fringe apparently thought he is really serious about what his show is all about. We thought the musical was hilarious but we heard a lot of locals say 'He deserves to burn in hell' on the way out.

3. Griffin's 'offensive' Emmy speech to be censored

Comment #69954 by Greg23 on September 13, 2007 at 10:22 am

Quote:

---

The Catholic League is registered as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

---

4. Griffin's 'offensive' Emmy speech to be censored

Comment #69710 by Greg23 on September 12, 2007 at 10:34 am

I, for one, am really surprised by this! Not because of the censorship - the U.S. mass media is spineless and Donohoe is beneath contempt.

I am surprised because every time I have heard her she comes across as a reactionary conservative. Be careful about making her your hero without knowing more about her - or has she changed that as well?

5. Anger over 'blasphemous' balls

Comment #65883 by Greg23 on August 27, 2007 at 8:49 am

Then again - It shows, once more, how clueless the U.S. is to other cultures, however screwed up they might be.

6. New age therapies cause 'retreat from reason'

Comment #61497 by Greg23 on August 5, 2007 at 11:14 am

When will it be shown in America? -

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

7. Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Comment #54885 by Greg23 on July 9, 2007 at 8:29 am

I almost feel like checking out Snopes to see if they have an entry on this.

8. Now this is how to critique Ken Ham's creation 'museum'

Comment #54880 by Greg23 on July 9, 2007 at 8:15 am

moopet - also, where for were.

9. Rival to evolution may enter schools

Comment #53083 by Greg23 on June 29, 2007 at 9:21 am

Oh man, this is really disheartening. I really like Scotland (esp. Edinburgh) and hate to see this happen.

- from U.S.A.

10. Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker

Comment #51742 by Greg23 on June 24, 2007 at 3:28 pm

There was a guy during the Sunday paper presentation session at T.A.M. 5 who wrote a similar program for his university thesis. Instead of a clock, it produced a maze and a route through the maze. He used it to show how "irreducably complex" features can be produced through simple evolutionary process.

11. We of little faith

Comment #48836 by Greg23 on June 9, 2007 at 6:49 am

Ah, Susan

Always one of my favorites.

12. U.S. a theocratic state, says former Canadian ambassador

Comment #46930 by Greg23 on June 2, 2007 at 9:29 am

We (U.S.) may not be a theocracy but IMO we are approximately one constitutional 'separation of church and state' clause away. Without that, I think we would see it in my lifetime.

13. Catholic Church Reconsiders Limbo

Comment #43379 by Greg23 on May 21, 2007 at 8:06 am

For some reason The Onion never did it for me either. Intelligent Falling was very good and the funniest thing I ever heard them do was the original moon landing tapes. ('Jesus H. Christ we are on the f*cking moon').

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wio0ELeTfe4

14. The Golden Rule

Comment #41684 by Greg23 on May 16, 2007 at 3:01 pm

New studies in neurology are showing when we see someone else experience something the same parts of our brain fire as if we had experienced it ourselves. This would lead to developing an 'inherent' moral standard through history.

15. Jerry Falwell's God

Comment #41678 by Greg23 on May 16, 2007 at 2:51 pm

I was there for that. He had a lot of other good stuff as well.

16. The Creation Museum: Prepare to believe

Comment #41026 by Greg23 on May 15, 2007 at 11:07 am

Jerry Falwell just died.

Dare I say, the world has become a little bit better place?

17. An atheist's call to arms

Comment #36575 by Greg23 on May 1, 2007 at 3:39 pm

sane1 -

Afraid I've gotten too familiar with Shermer and lost my sense of awe. No rap against Shermer I've got all the books and heard him speak many times.

Many others I left off as well. Too many to remember them all. I think there are about 100 total, although I've never counted them up.

Shuggy -

A leftover habit from apparently offending people's sensitivities once too often, in other groups. Wasn't really thinking.

Should I even give the concept of hell credence by writing the actual word??? Hmm, I'll have to think about that. At least I didn't go for heck as a euphanism. ;-)

18. An atheist's call to arms

Comment #36551 by Greg23 on May 1, 2007 at 2:03 pm

cassdenata -

There are so many. If you are not familiar with TED there are the 'wish' talks where people get TED money to help with their attempt to 'change the world' (affordable housing, clean burning local fuels, improving a ghetto neighborhood, peace through media, $100 computer, etc.). They are people who are already working on the projects and get a boost from TED. Those are interesting to see what people's visions are.

There are talks by famous people or people in the news.

There are a few 'artistic' presentations.

There are talks by visionaries.

Just off the top of my head, I can think of:

Julia Sweeney - an excerpt from her "Letting go of God' one woman show.

Gladwell - wrote 'Blink' and 'The Tipping Point' talks about how we came to have 43 choices in spaghetti sauce.

Schwarz - who tells us why having too many choices is making us miserable (Good combo with the previous one).

Levitt - wrote 'Freakenomics' and talks on the chapter about street drug dealing as a business.

Deutsch - paints one h*ll of a picture of the universe and the contribution of knowlege.

Dawkins - has another talk about 'middle man' why we have such a hard time understanding the very small and the very large.

Rutan - did the non stop flight around the world and is working on private space launches. Tells whats wrong with the way space exploration is being conducted.

Rosling - talks about countries, populations, health and how they interact. Great graphing software presentation.

Huang - Cool 'hands on' computer input interface (think - Minority Report movie).

Gore - If you didn't think he had a sense of humor. Everyone's told him, if he had been like this he would have won the election going away (I know, he won anyway but that's different story).

Kurzweil - something futuristic about computational power not being able to keep up with progress in bio-genetics, maybe using DNA as computers (It's been a while, I think that's what his talk was).

There have been very few I haven't liked. It depends if you just like anything that's intelligent and creative or you have a particular area of interest.

I download them, convert them to DVD then watch them on T.V. They are only 18 - 20 minutes each. Good for when you have a free moment.

Happy hunting.

Greg

19. An atheist's call to arms

Comment #36501 by Greg23 on May 1, 2007 at 10:52 am

Ahhh, I love the TED talks. So many interesting people with so many interesting things to say. Probably my favorite thing on the web.

20. One Hell of a Religious Read

Comment #34810 by Greg23 on April 25, 2007 at 10:19 am

Virgins? I thought it was white raisins!

It's somewhere in the first half of the book. (Something to do with translation snafus).

21. One Hell of a Religious Read

Comment #34501 by Greg23 on April 24, 2007 at 9:03 am

To Lee Harrison -

I have met Hitchens. He can be quite cordial and is always interesting. Of course, as someone else noted, he can also be quite cantankerous.

To Azven - The bit about Sai Baba and being hit by the bus were not directly connected in the book. I think (from memory) they were in the same chapter though and related to the same theme.

The people he was with thought Sai Baba was acting through him when he (Hitchens) got them out of a sticky situation.

22. Religious Conviction vs. Political Dogmatism

Comment #26900 by Greg23 on March 22, 2007 at 8:13 am

In follow up to TIKI AL.

Have you ever seen a 3 - 6 week old fetus? Body Worlds had an exhibit of fetuses (feti?) at various stages of development. It was difficult to see that anything was even in the vial until more than 3 weeks. At 6 weeks you could see a speck of something. Instead of an enlarged PICTURE, the 'Right to Life' groups ought to look at some physical examples.

If you are made to look at a picture it should have to be the correct size.

23. O Come All Ye Unfaithful

Comment #11144 by Greg23 on December 3, 2006 at 9:52 am

Actually I wouldn't mind being trapped in an elevator with Christopher Hitchens, if he didn't smoke like a chimney.