Bad Philosophy

I know, I know… I was horribly late with the editing on this one, but I swear that two weeks ago we recorded a new BF on the first day of the new decade! This one was a pretty straightforward retrospective, but the first time we actually had an episode one year ago that we […]

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2010, 2012, Apple, AT&T, automated cars, bittorrent, cloud computing, Cory Doctorow, Dollhouse, economy, Facebook, Flickr, Ford SYNC, Foursquare, Google, Gowalla, GPS, Hulu, iGuide, iPhone, IPTV, Iraq, iRobot, iSlate, iTunes, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Korea, Large Hadron Collider, Matt, Microsoft, Mike Leach, Milk, Minority Report, MySpace, New York City, recession, RFID, Rotten Tomatoes, SkyNet, social media, Stephen, tablet, Terminator, Texas Tech University, texting, The Jetsons, The Pirate Bay, Total Recall, Twitter, underwear, VH1, Windows 7, Wolverine, Yahoo!, year

Since the dawn of time, man has peered out humbly at the world through his eyeballs and tried to make sense of it all in some systematic fashion. Aristotle famously set this ship of science on its way when he remarked casually one fine Grecian day, “You know, studies show that women have fewer teeth than men.” Of course, he was full of s***, but that’s beside the point! The A-man set a precedent of discourse that has continued to this very day, according to some experts.

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aerogel, Aristotle, Bill Nye, Brave New World, chemical, common sense, David Hume, desiccants, Dogpile, double pendulum, education, elementary school, Eric, grits, high school, Hulu, job, Jonathan Coulton, Justin.tv, Kevin, laser tag, meta, motivation, MythBusters, Pavlovian, physics, pi, Pluto, positive reinforcement, potatoes, pragmatism, psychology, radiation, science, Shakespeare, silica, sociology, South Plains Regional Science and Engineering Fair, special relatively, Stephen, Stickam, tracking, turkeys, TV, unions

Stay calm. You’re not imagining things. That “b” is real, and we have a good explanation for it… sort of. As you well know, we here at Bad Philosophy have had our [some might say disproportionate] share of unsavory experiences with audio equipment. Trying new things tends to get us in trouble, and well… we […]

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2008 election, advising, Alec Baldwin, Alex Albrecht, anarchy, Animal Planet, Arizona Cardinals, authoritarianism, Barack Obama, Benito Mussolini, bias, Bill Clinton, Blackberry, Bridgestone, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Budweiser, Canada, Captain Kirk, CareerBuilder, cats, Cinncinnatus, commercials, communism, conservatism, corporations, crack, Doritos, EULA, existentialism, fascism, football, FOX News, Frank Caliendo, Frank Zappa, Franklin Roosevelt, Franz Kafka, free will, Galaxy Quest, GE, Godwin's Law, government, Great Depression, hash tags, Herbert Hoover, Heroes, Hollywood, horses, Hot Wheels, Hulu, iLife, iPhone, Jackass, Janet Jackson, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jediah, John Elway, John Madden, Justin Timberlake, Kevin, Kevin Rose, koalas, Levar Burton, Liberal Fascism, libertarianism, love, Lutheran, MacGruber, Mad TV, MasterCard, MC Hammer, McDonald's, Mercury, Michael H, Mickey Mouse Club, Mike Leach, Miller, Murray Hall, nationalism, Nazi, NBC, nipplegate, parliamentary liberalism, parody, Pepsi, philosophy of language, Pittsburgh Steelers, Playboy, Pluto, politics, porn, puppies, Puppy Bowl, republicanism, Richard Dean Anderson, Richard Nixon, Rome, Sartre, satire, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Saturday Night Live, Soren Kierkegaard, squirrels, Star Trek, Starbucks, statism, Stephen, Stickam, Super Bowl, T9, Texas A&M, Texas Tech University, texting, The Internet, The Talking Heads, Tim Allen, Tom Petty, TWiT, Twitter, Weird Al Yankovic, Wikipedia, William Shatner

As we enter 2009, the last year of the Noughties, we here at BF decided to do a little retrospective on the previous year, highlighting some things that piqued our interest in 2008. Not only that, we decided to make some outlandish predictions as well. If you’re still hungover from last night’s revelry, we forgive you. If not, join me, Kevin, and Jed for some laid-back BF action. We even created a resolution for once-again-absent Matt Legler, who was stuck in the middle of nowhere unfortunately. Oh, and as a New Year’s bonus, I cooked up a brand new intro. Bon appetit!

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2008 election, 2012: The Movie, AIM, alcohol, Andromeda Strain, Apple, AT&T, Austin, Azure, Barack Obama, Batman, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill Clinton, black holes, British Parliament, C-SPAN, California, cell phones, CNN, Colorado, computers, Digital TV Transition, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog, Dungeons and Dragons, Economic Crisis of 2008, economics, entropy, filibuster, Firefly, Flickr, FOX News, genetic engineering, George Bush, Germany, gold standard, Google, government, Gregorian calendar, Halo, Halo: Landfall, HEB, Hulu, inflation, iPhone 3G, Iraq War, Japan, Jayne hat, Jediah, Joss Whedon, juggling, Jurassic Park, Kevin, Lake Malta, Large Hadron Collider, larping, Leo Laporte, Lubbock, MacRumors, mainstream media, Mayans, Michael Crichton, Microsoft, Nathan Fillion, Neil Patrick Harris, pantheism, Poland, Prey, RadioShack, RaiderVille, reality distortion field, Robert's Rules of Order, Ron Paul, rowing, RSS, SkyNet, Skype, speculative fiction, Sprint, State of Fear, Stephen, Steve Jobs, Terminal Man, Terminator, Texas, Texas Tech University, text messaging, The Dark Knight, the end of the world, The Internet, The Machine Girl, TV, TWiT Live, University of Texas, Verizon, VoIP, Writer's Strike, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Pipes, Yoakum