There was also the throwaway scene in "The Shooting Star" shown here, where two Jewish stereotypes gloat about the money they'll save from the end of the world. But you can perhaps see this as just a casual use of ethnic jokes which were common at the time (look at this scene from Disney's 1933 "Three Little Pigs")…

Not having watched the episode, was the joke that Artie wanted to create an intentionally cheesy Christmas special so he tricked the clueless adult into thinking the Star Wars Holiday Special was actually good? Or is the joke that he actually really reveres the special? Because in the latter case he would have to be…

I can never tell to what extent conservapedia articles represent the real consensus of conservative editors on that site (or the views of the people in "authority" there since conservapedia may not be as into "consensus" as wikipedia), and to what extent they've been influenced by non-conservative editors…

Thanks, that was way more awesome

I would have liked it a lot better if I could understand what the voice was saying, I only managed to catch a few phrases. I understand if the guy doesn't have a good singing/rapping voice, but maybe a little less with the distortion?

what's the point of the other 90%? According to myth-busting site Snopes, it was television that made us dumber:

And also the "Christmas Infiltration Rap"

I also particularly liked "Baby Boomer Santa"

For anyone who missed it!

I think you're interpreting the definition too broadly, you can't necessarily rely on short dictionary definitions for a nuanced understanding of word meaning. If I tell my parents to be on the lookout for an email going round that has a virus, would you say that's "propaganda" since I'm spreading information that can…

I dunno, is any message warning us against destroying the environment "green propaganda"? What defines "propaganda", as opposed to just having a message/moral? And if you define green propaganda so broadly I think Terra Nova would have to qualify to, io9 has no problem trashing that either.

Ah, sorry, I confused his story with the one about the boy raised among birds.

Just FYI, those books are supposed to be kind of a more "adult" take on Narnia/Harry Potter, so they're about these jaded teenagers who are taking drugs and having sex and stuff in between cramming for magic school...I enjoyed them but the tone is not at all Narnia-like, even though the books do feature a parallel…

Apparently that was like a standard thing at the turn of the century! I have a picture of my (Jewish!) grandfather as a tot, he's got the same kind of long hair and dress-type thing on.

Maybe he'll announce something about it on his blog soon...he usually updates it once or twice a month.

I don't think the "Chronicles of Narnia" one about the origin of magic is quite right—The Magician's Nephew suggested it wasn't unique to Narnia, since the "magician" of the title had a grandmother with "fairy blood" who gave him a box he deduced was from Atlantis, and inside the box was some magic dust that he turned…

The link to publisher's marketplace doesn't work without a login, is there any other information besides that blurb? I'm curious whether this will be another mega-length biography like the 2-volume I am Providence, or if it'll be much shorter in text but more focused on images. BTW, for anyone interested in photos of…

He soon learned several social niceties, including the idea of sharing, suggesting that Traian will continue to make leaps toward rejoining human society.

We're *still* doing this, are we now? Even with the massive growth of greenhouse gases, the Earth hasn't been getting any warmer since before the turn of the century.