Hurrah for Dr. Madden!

March 8, 2011

Last night, when Eve brought this article to my attention, she asked, “Do you remember Tom Madden?”

I imagined John Madden. “Yeah.”

“You know he’s an expert on the Crusades?”

How nice for John Madden, I thought. “No.”

Sensing that something was wrong with my brain, Eve said, “Thomas Madden, from the SLU history department?”

“Oh, yeah, yeah.” I said. I think I covered myself pretty well.

Turns out a few years ago Dr. Madden wrote an article that appeared in the National Review, called “Not Dead Yet,” about the Naked Archaeologist’s The Lost Tomb of Jesus. Calling Simcha Jacobovici a “Naked Archaeologist,” mind you, is like calling me a “Bejeweled Pro Wrestler”–he is neither an archaeologist nor is he naked. “Fully Clothed Failure” seems more apt.

Regardless, it was published in March 2008 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the release of the  Discovery Channel’s misguided airing of James Cameron’s goofy documentary, and it seems to fit within the scope of this site.

Enjoy!

RJB

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Dr. Hovind, Meet Dr. Whitey-Cat

March 3, 2011

It’s a happy day here at Skeptical Humanities. You see, my cat Jesse has received his doctorate from the prestigious Thunderwood College.

Jesse’s qualifications were so impressive that Thunderwood gave him the degree without even requesting that he write a dissertation. Jesse, being a conscientious cat, decided to produce one anyway:

Thunderwood College

Dissertashun for Doktor of Sciences In Baraminology

A Project Submitted to Chancellor Brian Dunning

Baraminology: Catkind is teh Best Kind And It’s All Kind of Crap

Submitted by Jesse in Parshul Fulfillment of Stuff

February 27, 2011

Dedicashun

i dedicate dis diss to me. O, and also Ceiling Cat i guess.

Acknowledgings

i wish to thank absolutely no one. No one helpded me. i did it all maiself. Tho I did get the inspirations from kent hovind. If he can haz doctorate, I can haz doctorate pls. kthxbai.

Introduckshun

Oh hai, i iz Jesse. I iz a kitteh evangelist. I live in mai house. I haz bin teeching kitteh wisdom to mai kitteh frends Mina an Gavin (aka teh stripey bastard) for a long time. As a evangelist, Ceiling Cat lieks me best an dont even mind wen I makes the misplaced modifiers.

Teh baraminses or kindses iz used to splain how so many critters cud fit on a boat. See, dere waznt a dog an a fox an a wolf an a poodul an a shitzu. Der waz just 2 goggies representing goggy-kind (or maybe it waz 7 or maybe 14). Which is 2 or 7 or 14 too mani.

Teh kitteh-kind eated most of teh udder kinds. Dats y u don’t see mouses or burds or skwirlz or gazelles or deers anymoar.

Table of Contentedness

Dedicashun, Acknowledgings & Introduckshun………………………………………..i

Teh Kitteh Baramin……………………………………………………………………………..1

Teh Udder Baraminses……………………………………………………………………..250

Bibbleleografy…………………………………………………………………………………251

Bibbleleografy

Teh Bibul.

Ceiling Cat. Personal interview.

Then he got tired and decided to take a nap in a box that is too small for him.

I’m sure he’ll get around to the rest of it eventually.

ES

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Why do liberal-fascist academic elites want to homosexually abort your children’s minds with drugs?

March 1, 2011

Well, perhaps they really don’t.

Notice this picture is on the left.

At some point between the 1950s and 1960s (1:13AM on Tuesday, July 12, 1963, to be exact), the idea of the “egghead” academic developed into the “commmie-red pothead” character. A brief article from the Washington Post indicates that the real state of academia challenges the facile caricature of university and college teachers.

RJB (Solidarity, comrades!)

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A write-up on the TruthCon

February 28, 2011

A few weeks ago, I attended a UFO/truth conference in Atlanta. One of my colleagues, Tom Lolis, who is also interested in conspiracy, also attended and has written up a piece for the Brittain Fellows website, TECHStyle. I haven’t yet been able to write about it here because I am under contract, as it were, for someone else. But I can pimp his experiences just fine.

It’s called, “TruthCon 2011: I Come in Peace.” Click on the link today, won’t you?

RJB

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A real controlled demolition…

February 27, 2011

We saw one this morning just across from Georgia Tech’s campus. It was loud. And sudden. There was no warning, as far as I could tell. Eve and I were about a block away from it. Here is her video. The audio is messed up because of compression or something (that sounded like I knew what I was talking about, didn’t it?):

Here is the reverse angle, from the perspective of those buildings in the background:

And another angle:

Finally, a shot from the official observation area:

RJB

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