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Today Show Anchors Applaud Elementary School Students Pledging Allegiance to God

May 10, 2013 By Hemant Mehta 117 Comments

This morning on NBC’s Today, weatherman Al Roker visited Silver Spring, Maryland’s Forest Knolls Elementary School as part of his “Wake Up With Al” tour.

It starts off all well and good and cute. Roker even helps with the morning announcements. Then, at the 1:37 mark, they all say the Pledge of Allegiance together — even the Today show anchors join in via satellite:

That by itself wouldn’t bother me. Most schools say the Pledge and that’s really not the point of the segment.

But then they discussed what just happened and things got weird:

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Jeopardy Contestants, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

May 9, 2013 By Hemant Mehta 30 Comments

In case you missed yesterday’s episode of the Jeopardy! College Championship, you missed a great Final Jeopardy clue:

OHMYGOD! 200 years old! Apology from the Church of England! It’s Charles Darwin!

Who’s gonna win all the money?!

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A Brief Summary of History Channel’s ‘The Bible’… Part Three

May 6, 2013 By Hemant Mehta 20 Comments

You saw Part One and Part Two. Now, Dusty continues his epic summary of History Channel’s “The Bible” by tackling episodes 5 and 6 (with tons of NSFW language):

(via Cult of Dusty)

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Is Richard Dawkins Charming Enough?

May 3, 2013 By Hemant Mehta 38 Comments

I know we’ve seen more than enough interviews with Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins about their movie The Unbelievers, but this segment on Ontario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin is worth a listen if for no other reason than Paikin (a gracious host who isn’t trying to pick a fight) questions Dawkins’ “charm” in the film (around the 4:50 mark):