http://brain-terminal.com/posts Edited by Evan Coyne Maloney Sat, 10 May 2008 15:44:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Politicians sometimes misspeak. George W. Bush is well-known for it. And if it had been the current president who claimed to have visited 57 states--with one more to go--you'd probably have heard a few dozen jokes about it by now. Perhaps Obama is planning an imperialist presidency, and he accidentally let ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/05/10/the-58-states-of-barack-obama The Associated Press reports: A Malaysian Islamic court allowed a Muslim convert Thursday to return to her original faith of Buddhism, setting a precedent that could ease religious minorities' worries about their legal rights. Lawyers said the Shariah High Court's verdict in the northern state of Penang was the first time in ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/05/08/a-small-step-for-freedom-of-conscience While food costs continue rise, the role of government is getting more attention: With high food prices prompting grocery-store apologies to customers and raising fears of starvation in impoverished countries, Congress suddenly faces renewed pressure to cut subsidies to the wealthiest farmers and incentives for ethanol production. The American farmer, long an ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/05/05/your-tax-dollars-at-work Get ready to start surrendering more of your rights to government. You knew the Nannycrats wouldn't stop at smoking, fast food and foie gras. Now they've got their crosshairs zeroed in on that modern-day horror, the thing most of us dread and fear... you guessed it... Plastic bags: [Baltimore City Councilman James ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/05/01/plastic-bags-the-next-smoking Senator Barack Obama's "spiritual advisor" and pastor of 20 years is the gift that keeps on giving... to the Senator's opponents: We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing al-Qaeda is doing under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/27/quote-of-the-day-4 Fellow Bucknell alumnus Michael Malice, a founder of the popular Overhead in New York website, more recently the subject of a book-length profile by American Splendor icon Harvey Pekar, has launched a new online venture. Called "Worst Email Ever: The Internet's Inbox," what the site chronicles is fairly obvious. Had I known ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/24/a-sampling-of-my-hate-mail Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago is famous for its political history in which the dead rise from the grave to show up on election day and cast votes for Democrats. But, perhaps thanks to the messianic effect Senator Obama seems to have on some voters, his dead supporters go a step ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/23/dead-can-donate Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri seems upset that conspiracy theorists are robbing his terrorist network of the recognition it deserves. CNN reports: Al-Zawahiri also denied a conspiracy theory that Israel carried out the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., and he blamed Iran and Shiite Hezbollah for spreading the idea to ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/22/zawahiri-truthers In the New York Sun, John McWhorter, the former Berkeley professor and current Manhattan Institute Scholar who appears in Indoctrinate U, has some thoughts on the type of groupthink documented in the film: I've just attended a showing of Evan Coyne Maloney's fine documentary about political correctness on college campuses, "Indoctrinate ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/19/campus-tolerance-in-our-time The only thing that can be more gratifying to a filmmaker than having a packed house is having the house packed with a lively audience that responds enthusiastically. Thanks to everyone who made it to last night's New York City premiere of Indoctrinate U. It was truly a special night, and it ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/15/a-great-night Reminder: The New York City premiere of Indoctrinate U is this evening at 6:30PM. For more information, visit the Indoctrinate U website. Also, I'm scheduled to discuss the film and the premiere on Fox & Friends tomorrow morning at 7:40AM (Eastern time). http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/14/nyc-indoctrinate-u-premiere-tonight A lack of action in Iraq leads to a pretty funny conversation in this video. (Hat tip: Peter Mertz.) http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/13/marine-humor In an apparent change of corporate policy, Starbucks is being a little more laissez faire about what it allows to be printed on its customizable Starbucks cards. After the Wall Street Journal ran a piece on Monday in which Starbucks was accused of repeatedly rejecting the phrase laissez faire--apparently for ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/11/starbucks-eases-up-on-laissez-faire In response to this post, Jason of Shock & Blog e-mails: How is it that when Christian parents complain about such books, they are at best politely dismissed and at worst attacked as intolerant bigots, but when Muslim parents complain, schools can't bend over backwards fast enough to accommodate them? ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/10/selective-accommodation I'm happy to announce that the DVD of Indoctrinate U is now available for purchase. If you'd like to buy a copy of the DVD, head on over to the Indoctrinate U Store and you can have one in your hands in just a few days. Unlike the downloadable Virtual DVD (which ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/09/indoctrinate-u_dvd In the 1980s and '90s, many schools began adding children's books to the curriculum that portrayed gay relationships. At the time, some people objected, but the people who objected did not outrank gays in the Multicultural Hierarchy, so the books stayed in the classroom. But because multiculturalism depends more on faddish ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/08/gays-vs-sharia For some reason, the term laissez faire is verboten at Starbucks: Laissez-faire. It's a policy that made Starbucks vastly successful. But don't try to put that phrase on a customized Starbucks Card. The cards are supposed be personalized to reflect customers' tastes and uniqueness. They are available in a range of colors, ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/07/starbucks-vs-laissez-faire Apparently, if vodka maker Absolut had its way, Texas, California and much of the southwest United States would be given to Mexico. At least, that's the only conclusion one could reach after looking at an ad campaign Absolut is running in Mexico. The ads, with the bold caption "IN AN ABSOLUT WORLD" ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/04/absoluts-america-bashing-ad Spam blogs, sometimes called "splogs," are phony blogs set up to earn money by displaying ads. Splogs steal content from other sites so that they appear to the untrained eye as genuine blogs. When people conduct web searches, that stolen content drives traffic to the site, raising the revenue from ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/04/03/an-odd-discovery Indoctrinate U will be shown on Monday, April 14th at the Director's Guild of America Theater on West 57th Street in midtown Manhattan. The screening, which starts at 6:30PM, is free and open to the public. However, you must RSVP if you would like to attend. Space is limited and expected ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/03/28/indoctrinate-u-nyc The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is undergoing an assault in an all-out wikifight. Recently, FIRE's Wikipedia page and that of the organization's president, Greg Lukianoff, have been repeatedly modified to insert bogus claims trying to paint the organization as some sort of right-wing front group. It's ironic that FIRE finds ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/03/25/wikifight In my last exchange with John K. Wilson, he tried making the case that Indoctrinate U suffers from "biases, distortions, and omissions" and that I am only a fair-weather friend of free speech. My response pointed out the various ways in which Wilson makes off-base assumptions about my views. It seems ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/03/21/wilson-response We've added two new videos over at the Indoctrinate U website. The first is a deleted scene, Thoughtcrime at LeMoyne College: the Case of Scott McConnell, an astounding case that we weren't able to include in the film because we didn't get all the footage we wanted to tell the story. The ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/03/20/more-indoctrinate-u-unused-footage The Associated Press reports on the latest attempt to impose Sharia standards on Western civilization: The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots. Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world's Muslim nations ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/03/15/sharia-law-western-courts In addition to the burnable Virtual DVD and the MPEG-4 version, Indoctrinate U is also now available as a Windows Media Player file. Visit the Indoctrinate U Store for more information. Also, we will (finally!) have actual, physical DVDs available within a few weeks. I'll post an update once the DVDs ... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2008/03/14/latest-indoctrinate-u-news