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Losing Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens is gone. A man so well spoken, so outspoken, speaks no more.
I had been following Mr. Hitchens' illness for the last few months, terrible as it was to watch a man's body decay before your eyes. Yet I was encouraged by the retention of his character and intellect, by his undiminished desire to speak clearly to the world. I did not always agree with Hitchens, but stood in awe of his ability to slice through fuzzy thinking and bad argument with the sharpest of scalpels. He was sort of a school-yard scrapping version of Dawkins, willing to take debate to the most directly confrontational, and sometimes uncomfortable places, just so long as they made his point most accurately.
Death, Taxes, and Gravity
I'll admit it, I'm stoked about sharing this one. What a cute little idea for a short. Somehow the animators end up getting a lot of emotional pull out of a falling piece of rock.
Their credits, with the video below.
Enjoy!
A little meteor learns the biggest lesson of life on it's way down to earth.Realized by Wolfram Kampffmeyer and Sascha Geddert.Compositing by Sebastian Nozon.Music and sound design by David Christiansen.Produced by Stina McNicholas at Filmakademie Baden Württemberg.
Death is Awesome
By Not Living Long, We Prosper
Allow me to tell you a story, one in which you never die. Sounds fun, right?
There you are, happily getting your forever on. Yes, you're forced to witness all your friends die, but you have all kinds of time available in which to make new friends. You never get sick, never feel pain, and get senior's discounts for the duration of the planet's existence.
But what happens when the planet no longer exists, at least in any habitable way? What do you have planned for a few billion years from now when the earth is burned to a cinder?
Say you escape our barbecued planet on a spacecraft of some sort. Well, if we're talking about an infinite amount of time here, then that spacecraft will eventually, MUST eventually, collide with an asteroid. What is there to look forward to after that? Well, you'd then experience an eternity of drifting through the cosmos with nothing but a spacesuit surrounding you - lonely, cold, and incapable of ending it all.
Yeah, I think I'll take death.
Kill the Dumb
In deciding whom I don't mind being murdered, I suppose I'll have to base it on intelligence. Yup, haven't thought about in depth but it sounds like a good policy; I propose that if killing is to happen on this fair green earth, we start with the stupid.
Relax, the following post is by no means an endorsement for social Darwinism or any other tenet of Nazi Germany. In fact, I'm not talking about people at all. By the end of this article I hope to convince you of nothing more than the following earth-shattering, albeit subjective, nugget of wisdom; that whales are better than mosquitos.
In listening to a favourite podcast today I heard a story about a controversy brewing in the northern atlantic, where indigenous peoples are coming under fire for their inhumane methods of dispatching Minke whales. Exposed in the light of the issue is Greenland's recent application for an increase in their annual whale quota to the international body governing such questions.
