Justin pointed me toward a plugin to make embedding YouTube videos easer. It’s called EasyTube, and now that I’ve installed it, all you have to do to embed a video is type a tag like this:

[y0utube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOqXlbWf9Io] except change that zero to an ‘o’, and this is what you’ll get:

The same tag format works for Google Videos by substituting ‘googlevideo’ instead of ‘youtube’
e.g. [g0oglevideo:URL]

And if you want to, you can resize it like this… [y0utube:URL WIDTH HEIGHT]

So this… [y0utube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=uR88nKyKj3U 250 166]

Becomes this (click, plz):^*

*Been Rick Astley’d Lately?

More information about EasyTube may be found here.

This sight is… well… damn interesting.  Check it out.

Greetings, everyone. First post, short-time lurker around these parts. I sing with David, and he (in the middle of pimping Ron Paul to me the other day) invited me to come around. So that’s that.

I want to make a comment on the uproariously funny atheism video posted by Geoff. The debate of religion/faith/mythology, and their place in the socio-politics of America is something I really get a thrill from. So congrats, you hit a nerve.

I want to call your attention to an old blog post by a really tremendous writer & media theorist named Douglas Rushkoff. He’s also a tremendously progressive Jewish thinker, and has made a lot of people in a lot of religious institutions very angry with his writings. I’ll likely be posting more stuff referring to his work in the future, but this will do for now.

The post is Faith = Illness. Why I’ve had it with religious tolerance. Excerpt:

I think it’s time to get serious about the role God plays in human affairs, and evaluate whether it’s appropriate to let everyone in on the bad news: God doesn’t exist, never did, and the closest thing we’ll ever see to God will emerge from our own collective efforts at making meaning.

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Right now, America’s true believers are locking down its laws along with its Bible. They are fighting the science of evolution because it accepts that things change over time - and such change is incompatible with static, everlasting truths. They are doing to today’s progressives the very same thing that the Bible’s Egyptians were doing to the Israelites. And they’re doing it in the name of a God who they believe they’ll meet when they die. This is the very mindset and behavior the Bible was written to stop.

It goes on, but I can’t really just post the entire thing here, can I?  I’d love to solicit comments/debate on it, especially from anyone who finds it offensive.

Look out Atheists… you just got so served. Thank you Rube, for sharing your insanity with us. We are all now dumber for having listened.

Of course, George Carlin doesn’t agree. He has some issues with both God and the Ten Commandments.

And yes Beowulf, I ripped that link off of your Flog. I had to… it was too damn funny.

I don’t have too much of a problem with Canada and the USA integrating.  After all, they do have a lot of Beaver.  They even score it.   I suppose to get ready we should all brush up on the finer points of Hockey.

Mexico however… well, that is another story.

 Oh, and check out some more of those Molson commercials.  Best beer commercials ever.