tom sarbeck

Robin Williams on Craig Ferguson (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013)

(Craig’s one of the few comedians who could keep up with Robin.)

This is longer than an hour. The most I felt comfortable skipping over for you is 12 minutes.

So how do we know that time is not already reversed? Or better question, why would one call either direction forward or reverse?

I’m trying to imagine how (say) science would work in reverse. Instead of making new observations and making discoveries, would scientists be working towards undiscovery? Or perhaps consciousness would disappear while…[Read more]

Norm MacDonald has had some moments. But his comedy just doesn’t reach the level that someone like say, George Carlin does. The “everything is stupid” and “stuff sucks” thing can only work so long. He certainly was the best news anchor on SNL. Even amongst Canadians he isn’t particularly celebrated…nothing like Jim Carey, Mike Myers, Leslie…[Read more]

Another thing, the biggest enemy of minorities and marginalized having  affordable and plentiful housing have been government social engineers at all levels of government.

That’s such bullshit Enco. You really come across as a neo-capitalist ideologue sometimes. Even if the government gets it wrong sometimes, they usually get it right. Offering…[Read more]

It is imperative that we have some grasp on how it is humans are so easily manipulated,

Well I would say that the corporate world has had the art of manipulating consumers down to an absolute science for decades. It’s just…the government doesn’t think they should be in the business of counteracting this phenomena in any way…even though they…[Read more]

That is the deal these days. Targeted massive ideological pleading, just a mouse click away.

Good point. After having to moderate social media comments for years and having witnessed how easy it was to almost instantly setback things like vaccination rates and spread even the most outlandish conspiracy theories…I believe the world would be an…[Read more]

We become so damn glued to our positions that it is not easy to move the needle.

Indeed Jake. Any good philosophy program or institute will try to instil deep into the student the urge to challenge their own ideas and be willing to change them when your premises or the soundness of your argument is reasonably challenged or when new evidence…[Read more]

That seems to be a thing sometimes as well.

That is your concrete example. A bad taste joke which the person apologised for afterwards? It seems you’ve really drunken the JP coolaid. I don’t know in what alternative universe you live in where straight white males are being systemically pitted against everyone else. If anything I see the o…[Read more]

I mean that it separates people off into groups, and appears to pit some of them against each other.

Could you give a concrete example?

Do you not find identity politics divisive?  I do.

You are overgeneralising again. Identity politics are unconstructively divisive when they are being pointlessly divisive. Not when they aren’t. You are likely focusing on examples which you have read in the media or on social media which seem excessive. It’s like a camera focusing on ten violent…[Read more]

Enco, rationalwiki says it best when referring to JP:

His statements are notoriously incoherent, vague, jargon-laden, and ambiguous, which allows him to hand-wave criticism as mere misrepresentations of his babbling gibberish.