Bad Philosophy

Kevin, Stephen, and Jacie discuss Stephen’s new YouTube direction and the video community in general.

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A Very Potter Musical, anthropology, Ashton Kutcher, ASL, Beyond Viral, Blue Moon, Community, Cory Williams, Cyber Bullying, DailyMotion, ethnography, Glee, Google, Halloween, Halo, Jacie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jomama Jones, Kevin, Kevin Nalty, Kevin Smith, Master Pancake, Mike Wesch, Miller High Life, Neil Simon, nerdfighteria, performance, Philip DeFranco, Project for Awesome, Red State, Seinfeld, songsigning, Starkid, Stephen, Stephen King, theatre, True Lies, Tyler Perry, Vimeo, Vlog Brothers, YouTube

Picture this. You’re at a swingin’ house party, it’s 1 AM, and you are royally plastered. A witty, well-styled person ambles up and you two have a fantastic conversation. As the person walks away, you realize you have no clue as to the person’s gender or name. In a drunken haze that miraculously still leaves […]

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America's Got Talent, AOL, beauty, Bible, Boing Boing, Breaking Bad, Chinesh, comics, Community, Dawkins, Dreamsnake, English, fan fiction, feminism, Freewebs, Fringe, Game of Thrones, gender, gender equality, gender neutral pronouns, Geocities, God, grammar, Greek, Hawaii Five-O, iPhone, Kevin, Kiki, language, linguistic, Mad Men, Matt, Netscape, philosophy of language, Prodigy.net, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Sesame Street, Spanish, Star Trek, Stephen, Super 8, Toddlers and Tiaras, Tripod, TV, UPS, Vonda MacIntyre

President Obama’s State of the Union address? Meh. Practicing all your life one of two classical instruments because your mother says so? Snore. Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes? F***ING AWESOME. Okay, so we couldn’t exactly hit the mediocrity hat trick. BUT on a week when Internets were down in Egypt and Chicago, sickness spread […]

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American exceptionalism, Amy Chua, AT&T, atheism, Barack Obama, Bill Corbett, CERN, China, Community, diversity, Egypt, electric cars, FermiLab, George W Bush, Golden Globes, JFK, Keith Olbermann, Kenny G, Kevin, Kevin Murphy, Kiki, Mark Zuckerberg, NASA, Neil DeGrass Tyson, parenting, piano, politics, religion, Ricky Gervais, Robert Heinlein, State of the Union, Stephen, Texas Tech University, They Might Be Giants, Twitter, Uverse, violin, Wall Street Journal, Weird Al Yankovic