Pop Culture

Trading Spouses: Christians Vs. Woo Edition

May 30, 2010 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

Passive aggressive condemnation does not come much rawer than this: Your Thoughts?

Filed Under: Pop Culture, Religion, TV Tagged With: Trading Spouses Leave a Comment

Teen Werewolves

May 26, 2010 By Daniel Fincke 1 Comment

Am I just getting older or are teens really becoming a whole lot less distinguishable from children? The wisdom of a teen werewolf: I don’t believe any one is just human. Everyone’s got something else mixed in with them, just they’ve got to actually look inside themselves to see what it is. Thanks to Brandy [...]

Filed Under: News, News Discussion, Pop Culture, Social Psychology, Videos Tagged With: John Marshall High School, San Antonio, Teen Werewolves, Teenager 1 Comment

The Simpsons On South Park’s Mohammed Depiction Problem

April 26, 2010 By Daniel Fincke 2 Comments

via Your Thoughts?

Filed Under: Free Speech, Islam, Pop Culture, Religious Extremism Tagged With: Depictions of Mohammed, Mohammed, Simpsons Chalkboard, South Park, The Simpsons 2 Comments

25 Years Of Oprah Screaming Celebrities’ Names

November 23, 2009 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

via Jezebel: Your ThOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUGHTS?

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Judge This: NYC’s Anti-Fattening Drinks Ad Campaign

November 11, 2009 By Daniel Fincke 5 Comments

Saturday on the subway I was enjoying the above poster, as I have numerous times throughout the semester. And in fact, I haven’t just been seeing it on the subways but in my mind whenever I think of sodas now. In fact I’ve had this image in my head since before I saw the ad [...]

Filed Under: Biology, Culture, Cutural Criticism, Featured, Pop Culture, Psychology Tagged With: Ads, Health, NYC, Paternalism, Shock Advertising, Soda, Subway Ads 5 Comments

Do You Believe In Satan?

November 10, 2009 By Daniel Fincke 2 Comments

The theologians at The View weighed in on this question last March… I’d like to ask my Christian readers especially—do you believe in Satan? And if so, what do you think Satan is like exactly? And why do you think what you think? Your Thoughts?

Filed Under: Christianity, Pop Culture, Religulous, TV, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tagged With: Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Hasselback, Satan, Sherri Shepherd, The View, Whoopi Goldberg 2 Comments

“Holiday Co-options”, Or “What Exactly Did We Celebrate Saturday?”

November 2, 2009 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

Richard Wade on the evolution of a holiday: Last night, we celebrated Celtic Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of the Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Pagan Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of he Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Catholic All Saints Vigil/Feast Co-opted to Capitalist Subconscious Psycho-Sexual Sado-Masochistic Eros-Thanatos Paravestite Fetish Fantasy Catharsis and Candy [...]

Filed Under: Cutural Criticism, Pop Culture Tagged With: Halloween, History, Holidays Leave a Comment

The “#No God” Twitter Trend FAIL

October 20, 2009 By Daniel Fincke 2 Comments

The de-Convert passes along the story of an amusing atheist twitter “victory”: In a classic case of irony, Christians tried to get the statement “No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace” to trend today on Twitter. The result of this was the phrase “No God” became the #1 trending topic. Please understand that atheists [...]