Monthly Archives: December 2010

Tim Minchin’s “White Wine In The Sun”

Happy birthday Wyo! I miss you… And to everybody else who reads this, have yourself a Happy Diana’s Birthday. I’m looking forward to Christmas It’s sentimental I know But I just really like it I am hardly religious I’d rather … Continue reading

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Who killed more people in the bible, god or satan???

I saw this quote on Richard Dawkins/ website and thought it made a pretty good point, worthy of being shared as today’s Quote Of The Moment: “Deaths in the Bible. God – 2,270,365 not including the victims of Noah’s flood, … Continue reading

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Lawyer Charged With Contempt For Staying Silent During Pledge Of Allegiance

I’m certainly not a legal expert, but this is just bat-shit insane… From HuffPo: TUPELO, Miss. — When a Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, an attorney with a reputation for … Continue reading

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Why do I blog? Well I’m not totally sure I know…

In honor of my 100th post here on Thinking Critically (to go along with 500+ on Rodibidably) I began to wonder why I blog. And looking back at some of my oldest posts reminiscing about why I originally began blogging … Continue reading

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Eric Idle’s “Fuck Christmas”

For today’s Music Monday, I thought I’d get in to the “holiday spirit”… Fuck Christmas! It’s a waste of fucking time Fuck Santa He’s just out to get your dime, Fuck Holly and Fuck Ivy And fuck all that mistletoe … Continue reading

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Boom De Yada!

I saw this video on PZ Meyer’s blog some time back, and figured that I would share it here today, despite it not quite being time yet for a Music Monday. The song is a bit cheesy/childish, but I still … Continue reading

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repealed

About fucking time… No, that doesn’t quite say it strongly enough. What the fuck took you assholes in Congress so god damn long? And the 31 bigoted fucktards who voted against it, I hope when you’re caught fucking an underage … Continue reading

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Lynndie England is a complete douche

In case you’ve forgotten just who Lynndie England is, I think Wikipedia does a fairly good job of giving her “qualifications”: Lynndie Rana England (born November 8, 1982) is a convicted felon and former United States Army reservist who served … Continue reading

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The “New” Bill of Rights

While this is taken from an episode of Skeptoid, by Brian Dunning, the reason I am posting it is not for the science content or the skepticism of a particular topic that needs skeptical thinking, it is because this episode … Continue reading

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Quote Of The Moment

In order to “get away” from religion for a few posts, I figured I would do some posts related to information from some of the Skeptical podcasts I have been following, specifically focusing on recent episodes that I found especially … Continue reading

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Spending an hour with a right-wing, conspiracy theorist, nutjob

[Disclaimer, this was originally posted in October of 2008, but I want to post the original unedited, and then post an update to it shortly...] First of all, I’d like to offer a half-hearted apology for the redundancy in the … Continue reading

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Quote Of The Moment

I’ve never been a big fan of Shakespeare, but this soliloquy has always stuck with me as one of the greatest ways with words anybody has ever had. And while this really has nothing to do with critical thinking or … Continue reading

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A More Perfect Union

With the controversy over Obama’s pastors comments there was a chance for Hillary or McCain to attempt to take advantage while Barack’s was seemingly weakened. In the light of this, Obama wrote the following speech and delivered it in Philadelphia, … Continue reading

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Quote Of The Moment

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” ~ Albert Einstein Today’s quote is one that has a very specific meaning to me today, and general meaning to me typically. As always it … Continue reading

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The Terror of Nuclear Power

Once again, we come to another great podcast episode from Brian Dunning at Skeptoid.com. There are two reasons I am posting this particular episode. First of all, I am a BIG proponent of nuclear power as a long term (or … Continue reading

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Tyranny of the Majority

I have wanted to write this since the moment the numbers came back on Proposition 8 in California, but I wanted to keep my happy mood over the Presidential election alive for a few extra days (which turned into weeks, … Continue reading

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Quirkology’s Science Tricks for Parties

They say, whoever the hell they are, you can never have too much of a good thing, and Richard Wiseman is one hell of a good thing… As I’ve mentioned before, “Quirkology has to be the most fun I have … Continue reading

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The Believer’s Brain – Responding to a christian chain letter

In my ongoing Semi-Regular Segments, I have a bit I like to call The Believer’s Brain, in which I post the back and forth between myself and people of various belief systems, asking them to explain specifically what their beliefs are … Continue reading

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Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al”

And now for something COMPLETELY different… For today’s Music Monday, I would like to harken back to one of the best music videos of all time. For those young kids out there, music videos are what MTV USED to show. … Continue reading

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SUV Phobia

As a former owner of a SUV I have heard from a few of my friends how I was hurting the environment, I should trade it in for a Hybrid, etc… And I actually do agree with them, to a … Continue reading

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