Orson Welles on Hemingway

Utopia, you are standing in it!

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Is Philosophy Dead? – Peter Bowditch

Peter Bowditch holds a BA (Macquarie 1988), majoring in Cognitive Psychology, with other work in the areas of statistics, experimental design, psychological testing, linguistics, philosophy of science and epistemology. He is a past president of the Australian Skeptics Inc.

Jordan Peterson on postmodernism

Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance. He authored Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief in 1999. Recently he has been campaigning against the pernicious influence of postmodernism in academic life.

Joe Hildebrand on free speech

“This should make the blood run cold in any free-thinking, independent, intelligent person.” – Joe Hildebrand on Australia’s Grand Mufti’s calls to make it illegal to criticise Muslims about their religion.

 

Christopher Hitchens on free speech

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist. He contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, and Vanity Fair. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays, on a range of subjects, including politics, literature, and religion. A staple of talk shows and lecture circuits, his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded and controversial figure and public intellectual.

Maajid’s blunt message for Assange

Talking on his LBC show Maajid lambasted Assange for his singular obsession with transparency, which has lead to deaths and helped Donald Trump’s bid to be president.

“Not all leaks are equal, Mr Assange. In certain countries people are killed for things for far less than that because of your leaks.”

“You leaked information about counter extremist Muslims who are working in Afghanistan who are working with coalition forces against the Taliban and it directly led to their deaths because their names were released as collaborators and the Taliban hunted them down.”

“Back then nobody cared because if some poor brown Muslim guy in Afghanistan who was attempting to fight the Taliban and nobody cared that the consequences of your privileged first world Australian, male life didn’t have to think about causing the deaths of those vulnerable people in Afghanistan who are attempting to fight the Taliban.”

 “I’ve always despised what you’ve done since day one because I have seen the consequences of your actions against people like me and people like Iram at the top of this show brave Muslim voices who work within our communities to challenge extremism and you put them all at risk with your leaks and that’s what you’ve just done again because Donald Trump isn’t the most savoury of characters isn’t the nicest of people and yet you here you are again with your uncurated leaks effectively supporting Donald Trump’s campaign.”

CATcerto

 

Ken Burns eviscerates Donald Trump

 

Singing Pretty Songs – Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks

Trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso is on fire here.

Tina Fey returns to SNL as Sarah Palin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1VbK81tFMQ

Why Evolution Is True

I knew it! When I posted the hilariously stupid video of Sarah Palin endorsing Donald Trump in Iowa, I asked, “Where’s Tina Fey when we need her?”

She’s here! Here’s a bit from this week’s Saturday Night Live in which Tina Fey plays Sarah Palin endorsing Donald Trump (Darrell Hammond). Her imitation of Palin is one of the best bits of mockery in our time.

They didn’t get Trump’s hair quite right, though. . .

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