Reading Time: 4 minutes If anyone thinks good speech will overcome the sewage of human intent now bubbling up in social media, they’ve got another think coming.
Posted inComedy
Local Atheist Happy Facebook’s Stock Took A Hit
Reading Time: 3 minutes A local atheist and comedian sips his morning coffee. He’s happy. It’s a weird feeling. He was happy yesterday for a few minutes and then forgot why a few minutes afterward. This morning is different. He’s not going to forget the reason why his heart two sizes too small is swelling. People call it shadenfreude. […]
Posted inGeneral
Funny Tweets About Mark Zuckerberg’s Testimony
Reading Time: 2 minutes I watched an hour of Mark Zuckerg’s testimony to the oligarchs in Washington DC yesterday. Even though it was only a small percentage of the time Mr. Zuckerberg had in the hot seat, it was enough for meto grasp the dismal hilarity of the situation. And much like others I took to Twitter to express […]
Posted inReligion
No Low is Too Low: #MeToo Edition
Reading Time: 12 minutes This time the guy digging frantically for an even lower spot in my estimation of Christians is Gus Eli Reinhardt, who wrote an absolutely shocking post trying to piggyback on the #MeToo movement by comparing a standard Reformed doctrine to a violent rape. Worse, he’s depicting this spiritual violation as a good thing. Here’s why Christians keep doing this, and why it backfired this time.
Posted inCartoons, General
So I’m really into interdimensional feminism right now
Reading Time: < 1 minute I think my favorite thing about this one is that Blinky is still technically in it.
Posted inEducation, Ethics and Morality, Politics, Psychology, Science
Your Free Will has been compromised
Reading Time: 8 minutes How conservative campaigners are using psychometrics and social media date to manipulate their target voters. Facebook “Likes” allow companies to know you better than your own family. These are truly scary times.
Posted inGeneral
On ATP and Facebook…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some of the more astute readers may have noticed a linked image below each post where you can like ATP on facebook. It looks like this: Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher I would be grateful if you liked ATP (it doesn’t make you leave the page, either!), but […]
Posted inCulture, General, History, Politics
On the Futility of Using Jesus to Make People Care
Reading Time: 6 minutes This week my social media feeds have been utterly consumed by one single topic: What should be the American response to the Syrian refugee crisis? Of course, Syria isn’t the only country producing refugees, but the story being told is that it was Syrian refugees who unwittingly provided cover for a handful of violent terrorists […]
Posted inReligion
… And Now We Learn About Josh Duggar’s Secret Facebook Account.
Reading Time: 6 minutes I need to be really careful about what I say. Last time we talked, I was saying that I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop about Josh Duggar. I clearly used up my allotment of “I CAN’T EVEN” statements way too early on this whole thing.
Posted inReligion
Josh Duggar: Excusing the inexcusable
Reading Time: 12 minutes The scandal around Josh Duggar has had a few days to ferment. News sites that previously hadn’t even breathed a word about the scandal are now tiptoeing into the waters with super-carefully-worded pieces about what he did, now that it’s painfully obvious that Christians as a group are talking about it. Mainly, unfortunately, they’re largely defending it.