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Bob Jacobs: "I'm a university professor with a Ph.D. and a lot of years of good, respectful research... In 1964 you [Bill Nye] were trying to figure out what girls were; I was in the service, in a scientific capacity..."

"You're [Bill Nye] the one who's making ad hominem attacks and saying, 'Tha...

In a similar vein, US Senators have only been directly elected to Congress since 1913. Before that state legislatures appointed them, as stipulated by the Constitution (Article I, Section 3). Cheers!

"So Amy, what do you think about this potentially explosive statement about the Clinton family by Michelle Obama?"

"Well, let me just do your job for you and quote Mrs. Obama's next spoken sentence, which clearly shows she was talking about her own family. Needless to say, this is an idiotic con...

In Soviet Russia, you scratch cat?

"Net Neutrality" is a leftist plan to inhibit the free speech of conservatives online? Seriously? I suppose I could use these remaining 361 characters to explain why that's the most idiotic thing I've heard in the past month, but I realize that anyone who would say that (or take it seriously) is...

1:46:02 - "You shouldn't believe me. You should certainly not believe a word I said. That's why I was giving sources, look them up."

And that is why Noam Chomsky is a boss.

6:22 - "All right, let's talk first about whether there are any good arguments to think that atheism is true." WTF?! Did Hitchens not just spend considerable time explaining that atheism is not an ideology one believes in? That it is a stance of unbelief, philosophically equivalent to unbelief in...

William Lane Craig truly blows my mind. The intellectual obstacles this man must surpass and the philosophical hoops he must jump through to justify his belief - not just in some abstract deistic faith but in Bible-revealed theism - is astounding. Any other apologist would have changed the subjec...

0:06 - "There must have been a cause which brought the universe into being. Now, as the cause of space and time this being must be an un-caused, timeless, space-less, immaterial being..." Holy Hitchens! Did you catch that? WLC used "being" as a homonym and equated it with the cause of the big ban...

"49 percent of the country doesn't pay taxes"? I think you mean 49% of the country doesn't pay federal income taxes. Specifically, they can push their effective tax rate down to 0 with exemptions for stuff like, you know, having kids to feed. They do, however, still pay payroll taxes like SS and ...

Thank you, StumbleUpon.

2:51 - I just realized he had to ad lib this entire part backwards.

0:44 - I've read "A Brief History of Time." Does that make me a nerd?

2:02

WTF is this, the 1940s?

2:03

WTF is this, the 1940s?

I'm a huge fan of Rage.

And I laughed my ass off at this video.

What little respect I had for Steve Harvey is gone. Way to perpetuate that ridiculous stigma, Steve.

"Don't smoke marijuana, kids, or you'll go straight to hell!"

It gets more awesome every time I watch it! How!?

fatouche99 hit the nail on the head. While I think intelligence (along with education) certainly helps, the greater impact on religiosity comes from one's ability to separate their thoughts from those of the proverbial tribe. Mental independence is much more important than mental capacity.

"All right, Jon Stuart, buy his book, here he is..."

That was probably the most unenthusiastic plug I've ever heard.

A few months ago I flew for the first time in over a decade - the last time I was nine or ten, didn't think much of it at the time - and as the plane parted with the earth and I watched the ground shrink away I thought: "How the fuck is this even possible? We're in a giant metal tube that weighs ...

How strange...

No I cannot! The objective investigation of history by Lee Strobel, converted Christian and journalist extraordinaire, has convinced me that God exists and Jesus is his son. No other explanation can account for the writings in the New Testament, even though they were written decades after the dea...

Of course you're correct, which is why scientists always account for a "margin of error" in their observations. What I really should have said is that geologists have definitively determined the age of the Earth to within less than 1%. As for Goldie450: according the US Geological Survey, Earth h...

I love how everyone on here arguing against socialized medicine is using the standard capitalist talking points, as if they're reading out of an economics textbook. Like any economics model, capitalism works fantastically in theory. But if you take a moment to study the real world, to move beyond...

Clearly our current for-profit, free market model of health insurance should be maintained and strengthened. If corporations want to exploit loop holes, deny coverage, drop customers, and hike premiums all while awarding massive CEO bonuses, that's their prerogative. The Invisible Hand is never w...

If I remember correctly, the estate tax affects something like .02% of the population. Never ceases to amaze me how Republicans with simplistic talking points recycled over and over again can persuade half the nation to side with that .02%, not just on estate taxes but on virtually every other ec...

Are you a necromancer? 'Cause you just made Carl Sagan roll in his grave.

"So what you're saying is he was written down in many different books." Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Those different books are called the Gospels, and they accompany the writings of Paul in the New Testament. And if you think they all offer a perfectly symmetrical portrayal of Jesus' life...

"I took a little nap where the roots all twist

squished a rotten peach in my fist

and dreamed about you

WOMAN!!!!"

At least Gore (probably) wouldn't have started two neo-colonial resource wars based on lies.

Drugs: simple light refraction has never been so awesome.

With the number of people that actually pay attention to Palin, with the number of people that think Republicans care about anyone besides the top 1%, with the number that base their political opinions on distorted facts and talking points... I fear for the future of this country. I hope Palin ge...