Europe follows Australia in clean feed! 26 Apr 2010 Of course, we’re copying China, Iran, Burma and other democratic beacons… This video should be done in an Australian version: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmcupFx3FQ&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Philosophy
History Reminiscences of one who was there 12 Apr 2010 Early on, when I thought I would be an intellectual, a dilettante but still an intellectual, at the age of 17 or so, I read several books that I found at a second hand bookstore (my usual place of recreation). One was a little volume called Critique of Pure Tolerance,… Read More
Humor But, this is exactly right! 17 Aug 201117 Aug 2011 This is why philosophers should only have parrots, actually. Read More
Evolution Evolution quotes: Darwin on randomness 25 Jun 2010 Some authors have declared that natural selection explains nothing, unless the precise cause of each slight individual difference be made clear. Now, if it were explained to a savage utterly ignorant of the art of building, how the edifice had been raised stone upon stone, and why wedge-formed fragments were… Read More
The sad part is, even though it’s clearly satire, I’m not sure it really is satire. The government has probably looked at every line in this and thought “hey, this is actually a good idea, in line with our interests”. Perhaps we could name the new organization the Ministry of Internet Trust—Minitrue for short.
Yuck. That’s a terrible video. Parts of it are obviously satirical, while other parts don’t sound satirical at all, resulting in an incoherent message. It is also inappropriate to deliver satire of an important social issue in such a cheerfully deadpan voice and to play critical-faculty-dulling music in the background.
Parts are obviously satirical, while other parts don’t sound satirical at all? Gad! These guys are as incompetent as Mark Twain.