Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals “Think” was a March 7, 2007 address to the Heritage Foundation by Hollywood writer Evan Sayet (Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Win Ben Stein’s Money).

During this excellent lecture, Sayet synthesizes the critical flaws in modern leftist thinking and provides a completely new way to explain those motivations in post 9/11 America.

Again, I’m rare with the political video on Merchantprince, but I heartily recommend this one:

How did I miss this? Man, I would have been geeked out enough to drive across the country to hang out with the old gang…

Friday, March 21, 2008

 

LOS ANGELES —

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was resurrected for one night only. The cast of the popular supernatural series, which ran from 1997 to 2003 on The WB and then UPN, were in good spirits Thursday while reuniting for a panel discussion at the William S. Paley Television Festival. That doesn’t mean fans should expect the gang to get back together on screen.

“So many stars would have to align,” creator Joss Whedon said about the possibility of a new “Buffy” project.

For seven seasons, the slayer and company battled vampires, demons, werewolves, high school and other forces of darkness with tongue planted firmly in cheek. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” based on the movie of the same name, was never lauded with many awards, but it has been cited by many critics as being one of the most influential shows in TV history.

Sarah Michelle Gellar said she was surprised to find out moments before the reunion that her character recently had her first sexual tryst with a woman in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight,” a comic book series that picks up where the show ended. Gellar also reminisced about auditioning 11 times before landing the role of Buffy Summers.

“All my friends felt sorry for me because I was on a midseason replacement on a network no one had heard of on a show based on a movie that wasn’t all that,” the 30-year-old actress said.

Before the panel, audience members watched the fifth-season musical episode “Once More, With Feeling.” Other cast members at the reunion were Amber Benson, Nicholas Brendon, Emma Caulfield, Seth Green, James Marsters and Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Buffy’s surprise sister Dawn and will join the cast of The CW’s “Gossip Girl” this fall.

More coverage of the event:

Listen to the entire event here. (It starts after a musical intro of almost two minutes.)

Read a recap from TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello here.

The “Pink Is The New Blog” website has several photos here, along with some backstage notes.

E!’s Wanda Two Saints conducts backstage video interviews with Gellar, Charisma Carpenter, Seth Green and Michelle Tractenberg here.

Yeah, this song has been out for awhile now and everyone has heard it on the radio. I think it stands up well, though, seeing as I still enjoy listening to it almost every day.

In a sea of faux punk bands and other such manipulative drek in the top 40 charts, this little song stands out as sincere and pure.

Here’s a pleasant diversion for your weekend. Take a simple 3 minute test to determine which type of American English you speak.

Click Here to take the test. Feel free to comment below your results.

My Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

0% Upper Midwestern

Which makes sense. I’ve never lived in the Midwest and grew up for part of my childhood in Texas, but have lived in Pennsylvania most of my life (sadly).

The trailer for Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull has finally been released and it looks absolutely amazing! It’s filled with everything you remember and loved about Indiana Jones; great action, the famous score, fistfights, lost cities, pulp villains, fedora hats, funny one-liners, and Indiana Jones looks just as cool as he did back in the day. I can’t wait for May 22nd! By the way, at 1:25 into the trailer, you get a hint at what the movie is going to be about, which I think is brilliant.

Click here to see the Trailer

Click here to go see the HQ Version

article courtesy of Popoholic

The Vampire Name Generator is designed to be used for gothic role playing games like White Wolf’s Vampire: The Requiem, and Vampire: The Masquerade, and also the Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG. I put Yours Truly into the machine and got back…

The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity:
Uriel Deshoulières

Known in some parts of the world as:
Attila of The Steely Moon

The Great Archives Record:
A child of the Moon Goddess - Cold, determined, but of the light in the night.

So from now on I will only answer to the name Uriel or Attila.

But then, I’ve pretty much always answered to Attila.

So I have been pretty busy lately, what with getting into the car business and playing EVE like some kind of lunatic. Been having a blast and I hope my finances are finally taking a turn for the better.

I’ve also been working on the redesign for this site and am still not sure I’m happy with the look. I also want to get the advertising going again, so there will be more changes to come.

In the meantime, Conan has an answer for you:

I saw this remarkable video about a month ago and have been trying to get a good quality copy uploaded here to Merchantprince. An inventor from Erie, PA has stumbled onto something which lead to extraordinary scientific breakthroughs.

John Kanzius has found a way to burn salt water with the same radio wave machine he is using to kill cancer cells.

Kanzius was testing his external radio-wave generator to see if it could desalinate salt water, and the water ignited. A university chemist determined that the process is generating hydrogen, which can be burned as fuel.

Here is a local news story on the saltwater fuel demonstration. Unfortunately, this was the best copy I could come up with. There is some off-synching with the voices, but it’s worth watching:

Now, recent updates have made this story even more incredible. It seems that preliminary testing on Kanzius’ process has begin curing cancer in laboratory rats. From Wikipedia:

Kanzius treatment kills cancer cells in rabbits - John Kanzius, sorely weakened by leukemia treatments, drew on his lifetime of working with radio waves to devise a machine that targets cancer cells. The miracle: It works. (LA Times; Nov. 2, 2007)

Sending his cancer a signal - Hard evidence that researchers using John Kanzius’ radio-wave generator are successfully killing cancer cells has been published by the American Cancer Society. (Go Erie; October 31. 2007)

How amazing would it be if this could be a reality?

Read this on FOX News about a week ago and really thought it hit all the nails on their respective heads, regarding the recent attempts by the Federal government to ban online gambling. Regardless of your opinion on the subject (or even if you don’t know the details of the story at all), this is a good read.

There are likely many people whose reaction to all of this is “so what?” It’s tough to get too worked up over a ban on something as seemingly niche and targeted as a ban on Internet gambling. Who other than Internet gamblers should care?

Part of the problem is the mentality that comes with this kind of legislation. The gambling ban seems to have been supported by two similar approaches to governance that, although they come from opposite sides of the political spectrum, are generally quite similar.

From the right, many feel that if they’re personally morally opposed to a particular consensual activity, it ought to be banned for everyone. From the left, it’s the mentality that because some people can’t engage in a particular activity responsibly and without harming themselves, that activity ought to be banned for everyone. One is moral paternalism. The other is Nanny State paternalism. But the result is the same. The government makes your decisions for you.

For the full article, Click Here.

An atheist blog recently listed the best atheist-positive anecdotes that have been seen either on a bumper sticker or a t-shirt. Of course, they are accurate as well as hilarious. Which ones are your favorites?

Top 40 Atheist T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker Aphorisms

1. Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers
2. Honk If Your Religious Beliefs Make You An Asshole
3. Intelligent Design Makes My Monkey Cry
4. Too Stupid to Understand Science? Try Religion.
5. There’s A REASON Why Atheists Don’t Fly Planes Into Buildings
6. “Worship Me or I Will Torture You Forever. Have a Nice Day.”­ ~ God
7. God Doesn’t Kill People. People Who Believe in God Kill People.
8. If There is No God, Then What Makes the Next Kleenex Pop Up?
9. He’s Dead.
   It’s Been 2,000 years.
   He’s Not Coming Back.
   Get OVER It Already!
10. All religion is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ~ Edgar Allen Poe
11. Viva La Evolución!
12. Actually, If You Look It Up, The Winter Solstice Is The Reason For The Season
13. I Wouldn’t Trust Your God Even If He Did Exist
14. Cheeses Is Lard. Argue With THAT If You Can.
15. People Who Don’t Want Their Beliefs Laughed at Shouldn’t Have Such Funny Beliefs
16. Threatening Children With Hell Is FUN!
17. What Schools Need Is a Moment of Science.
18. God Doesn’t Exist. So, I Guess That Means No One Loves You.
19. When the Rapture Comes, We’ll Get Our Country Back!
20. You Say “Heretic” Like It Was a BAD Thing
21. Science: It Works, Bitches.
22. “Intelligent Design” Helping Stupid People Feel Smart Since 1987
23. I Gave Up Superstitious Mumbo Jumbo For Lent
24. My Flying Monkey Can Beat Up Your Guardian Angel
25. If God Wanted People to Believe in Him, Then Why Did He Invent Logic?
26. Praying Is Politically Correct Schizophrenia
27. I Forget - Which Day Did God Make All The Fossils?
28. Don’t pray in my school, and I won’t think in your church.
29. I Was An Atheist Until The Hindus Convinced Me That I Was God
30. The Spanish Inquisition: The Original Faith-based Initiative
31. If we were made in his image, when why aren’t humans invisible too?
32. JESUS SAVES….You From Thinking For Yourself
33. How Can You Disbelieve in Evolution If You Can’t Even Define It?
34. Q. How Can You Tell That Your God is Man-made?
    A. If He Hates All the Same People You Do.
35. Every Time You See a Rainbow, God is Having Gay Sex
36. I Went to Public School in Kansas and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt and a Poor Understanding of the Scientific Method.
37. The Family That Prays Together is Brainwashing the Children
38. Another Godless Atheist for Peace and World Harmony
39. God is Unavailable Right Now. Can I Help You?
40. When Lip Service to Some Mysterious Deity Permits Bestiality on
    Wednesday and Absolution on Sundays, Cash Me Out. ~ Frank Sinatra