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Jon Stewart on Fox News Sunday

Lodurr says...

Wallace played his part perfectly, in that if you were one of Fox's uninformed viewers, you could think he won the interview based on his behavior. On TDS, Stewart will interact with the answers his interviewees give to his questions, but Wallace either interrupts Stewart's answer with a new topic, or doesn't react at all to completely valid points.

I wish Stewart would present his whole case against Fox every time he goes on there, but on the other hand, it's so easy for Fox hosts to spin in realtime that they could make him look like a raving madman if he didn't play along.

Fox News Bites and Rep. Weiner Bites Back

Lodurr says...

>> ^quantumushroom:

FOX is the only media outlet keeping all the sycophantic, State-Fed, Taxocrat Party water-carrying, Obama Reelection Campaigning dunces from being a monopoly.
So sorry if the truth hurts.


It really sounds like you've been brainwashed when you vomit angry words like that. Your conservative brainwashing source is basically traumatizing you and then blaming that trauma on whoever they want, in this case liberals. In fact, talk about "liberals" and the evil that they commit and intend to commit dominates every piece of conservative media I encounter these days.

You're at that point where there are so many facts against your side right in front of you that you completely ignore them and are only invigorated to keep your perspective. Step back from the us vs. them mentality for a moment, and realize that you can't lose anything by changing your mind.

Top Gear hosts make fun of Mexicans

Lodurr says...

There's no social commentary in their racist jokes. Cartman calling people "jew" is social commentary because it reflects more on Cartman than on actual jews. Gabriel Iglesias' racist gift basket (see link in comment above) is social commentary. Even Michael Richards' "he's a nigger" episode had more social commentary than calling one race lazy and worthless. There isn't even a hint of truth in it. Latinos, as a group, are the hardest working people I've ever known, and most of them hardly sleep because they have multiple jobs.

A big part of the problem is that they're picking on a country with serious economic problems. It's easy for the French not to take offense at French jokes because they've been doing pretty well for the past thousand years. It was only a few hundred years ago that most Mexicans lived and worked as a systematically oppressed lower class, and they still have far to go to have a modern standard of living for the majority of their population.

Poking fun at a disadvantaged group when you're part of an advantaged one is always tasteless. Fuck these lazy talentless hacks and fuck the BBC for funding them.

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions

Lodurr says...

>> ^Trancecoach:
^I don't think he was regarding religion as the origin of corporal punishment. Rather, he is suggesting that suffering is not necessary for learning, as is frequently & unfortunately indicated by religion.


At 7:00 he says, "The rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious," regarding corporal punishment for school children. He's either suggesting that religion caused this behavior, or that to defend the behavior, advocates point to religion. I think neither of these are true. I've talked to several conservatives about spanking children and their rationale is that without it their children wouldn't be disciplined enough to succeed in life. I don't agree with them, but it's certainly different than saying "The bible says so."

It seems like he's talking about inventing a new culture with solid moral rules, a transition from "anything goes" secularism to a rules-based secularism. However, culture exists to prepare us for our environment, and there are incompatibilities between certain cultures and certain environments. I would rather we look at it solely based on environment, because that's guaranteed to yield results. When rural or impoverished areas of the Middle East are economically stable and politically stable, it's guaranteed that their Dark Age practices will diminish and disappear in a relatively short amount of time.

Doesn't this talk go against the idea that you don't need a moral rulebook to be morally just? Sam Harris isn't the first guy in the world to get the great idea of making a morality rulebook for everyone to follow. I still think morality is relative, and any attempt to pin it down will be thwarted by time and changes to our environment. It's always worked out that way in the past.

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions

Lodurr says...

The basis of corporal punishment for children isn't explicitly religious/Christian because it exists (or existed) in pretty much every culture around the world. It's more a sign of how advanced a culture is, or how easy life is in that part of the world. The nature of parenting is to expose your offspring to the kind of life that you experienced. That's why first-generation immigrants to America raise their kids in a much more strict manner than second or third-generation immigrants.

It's counterproductive to scapegoat religion instead of look to the source of the issue. Telling third-world cultures to stop using third-world ideologies is like telling obese kids to stop eating too much. The underlying cause of the behavior has yet to be addressed.

B747-200 Takeoff And Landing From The Nose Wheel Perspective

Lodurr says...

Ah the A380 was just in the background under the left wing. I should've known, I used to be a "pushback dude" at my airport job and pushed plenty of 747s. I'm just not used to seeing one so clean.

1st iPad ad airs during Oscars 2010

Parks and Recreation - April the Intern

Loudness War Educational Video

Lodurr says...

This is really sad, I remember in '93 I could hear every instrument on a song on a CD and it was amazing. Over time, the listening experience has gotten less and less rewarding. I used to blame my ears but I'm glad to see it's not always my fault.

This is yet another example of the music industry shooting itself in the foot.

Valhalla Rising - Trailer

Epic Beard Man and Ambalamps (Michael) agree to REMATCH!!!

Plane attack victim's son speaks

Lodurr says...

>> ^Raaagh:
>> ^Lodurr:
What kind of activist is he if he never publicly shared his grievances? He's not an activist or a hero, he's a terrorist and a murderer.

Read the manifesto, he did a fair bit of stuff.


I found it hard to not skip around while reading it before, I didn't want to imbibe pure crazy.

So he did get pretty active in 1987 in response to a 1986 tax law, the ramifications of which I still don't quite understand. He spent $5,000 on a letter campaign and seemed to expect quick results from that investment, which proves he was already looney long before his kamikaze flight. But in the years leading up to his attack it sounds like he kept well to himself. In a democratic system, just the act of venting your grievances and exercising your voting rights relieves some of that weight on your conscience.

I don't mind people agreeing with Stack's sentiments or statements--I certainly agree with some--it was his methods that were inexcusable. The fact that I agree with him is pure coincidence, like if I found out he drives the same model car I do.

His real grievance, just like the gym shooter from last year, and the Korean American student a few years ago, was that he felt like a victimized social outcast and couldn't empathize with people. It's normal to feel some pity for these guys, but this case frustrates me because there are already people salvaging political momentum out of an innocent person's charred remains.

Plane attack victim's son speaks

Lodurr says...

Ken is amazingly composed for having just lost his dad. His dad sounds like a great guy who raised an even-tempered, well-adjusted son.

Regarding Stack, fuck that fucking cunt. Everyone who knew him said he never talked about the stuff in his manifesto. What kind of activist is he if he never publicly shared his grievances? He's not an activist or a hero, he's a terrorist and a murderer.

67 year old White Dude Told Him not to Fuck with Him

Lodurr says...

It should be okay to hate gang-banger culture. When you tie that culture directly to race, then you find you're unable to hate it without being racist, and thus it lives on longer than it should. Culture and race are not inseparable, the only people that believe they are inseparable are racists.

67 year old White Dude Told Him not to Fuck with Him

Lodurr says...

>> ^aspartam:
I can also notice the signs of roid rage when I see them. He is clearly raging in the second video.


No way you can call 'roids here. That looks like the effects of adrenaline to me. He still feels threatened because the guy that tried to fight him is nearby. I've experienced it before, the one or two times I've been in life-threatening situations I've had jitters long after it was over.

Now, I must track down Epic Beard Man and apprentice in the ways of beardzerking.



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