Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Normally we select songs that are obscure, or at least not very familiar, as opposed to mass-marketed ones. I’m going to make an exception tonight; in light of the protesters who keep showing up at G.W. Bush’s Canadian speaking engagements, this one’s just too appropriate to pass up.
Here it is, then: comedian Andy Samberg, portraying a one man army of righteous political dissent, works himself into a lather with a musical denunciation of the “system” entitled I Threw It On The Ground.
Feel free to throw down your Reader Tips in the comments.
Here’s a tip:
What do the following MP’s all have in common?
Scott Andrews, Kirsty Duncan, Andrew Kania, Dominic LeBlanc, Keith Martin, Alexandra Mendes, Shawn Murphy, Anita Neville, Robert Oliphant, Glen Pearson, Mario Silva, Michelle Simson, Alan Tonks, Frank Valeriote.
These are the MP’s supporting Justin Trudeau for leader.
I think Justin has an uncanny look of a young Mick Jagger.
Jaggers looks and his mothers brains. yeah lead on, Dion , Iggy , Trudeau II,
three in a row. even the CBCpravda cheerleading group that got all tingly with his eulogy for his father would throw up a little in their own mouths with him now. He,like Obama, hasn’t run an icecream stand with two flavours.
heres one for the Greens
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/scitech/2009/10/22/navy-unveils-hybrid-warship?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r4:c0.082961:b28459635:z10
then check out the 850 mile long golf course. only driver accessible.
hard to explain how Quebec got 25% of the money with almost nada Tories.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/10/22/stimulus-spending.html
CBCpravda at it again, no numbers to back up anything.
CBCpravda All Liberal All The Time.
I’m going to have to take issue with you this time, batb.
batb: “Kant and the rabbi, and Christians, believe that each person is a steward of their body, not the owner (did each person, after all, create their own body?)”
I’m not a Christian. I believe I own my body, and that I have the right to make decisions over it. I didn’t create my body; it arose from a process of nature.
That doesn’t mean I can do anything I want with it (say, drink too much) and escape any possible consequences; after all, we’re beings of a specific nature with specific requirements for survival (which, crucially, holds true whether God exists or not, and this is why a proper moral code for human beings is not based on religion). But it has to be my call, unless one believes in slavery.
batb: “Being promiscuous with our bodies — and I don’t just mean sexually promiscuous — leads to a degradation of our human dignity. What’s ‘evil’ about that?”
What exactly is “human dignity”? Why do you deign to tell other people what constitutes their “human dignity”? What other activities would you ban in its name? This is an anti-concept from Kant, i.e., a term that sounds like it means something but actually is rationally unusable.
batb: “Desecrating any human body just shouldn’t happen, whether it involves murder, abortion, genocide, or sporting dead human bodies in scientific displays for monetary gain.”
Is the “monetary gain” phrase an important part of this?
nv53: “Is the “monetary gain” phrase an important part of this?”
Not really.
After I clicked on Post, I realized that “sporting dead human bodies in scientific displays” is wrong whether or not it’s in the service of monetary gain. ‘Thing is, I’m not aware of any displays like this that aren’t in the money-making business. People will always pay to see gorey, creepy, horror-related phenomena.
It’s hard to argue, nv53, when we are beginning with completely different propositions: You maintain that you own your body and I maintain that I am a created being whose body is “on loan” for the time I’m on earth. Being a steward, not the owner, of my body, however, doesn’t absolve me from making decisions about it, as you put it. It’s incumbent upon me, as my body’s caregiver, to make healthy and prudent decisions so as not to harm it — and, when caring for others such as my children or my elderly parents, not doing any harm to their bodies, either. As far as it being “my call,” it IS my call. I simply believe that I have some spiritual guidelines to follow which, given humanity’s propensity for self-delusion, I am very grateful for. I can choose to follow these spiritual guidelines, aka my G*d-given conscience, or not. So, I am not a slave. I have been given the gift of free will and, I assure you, I exercise it frequently every day.
Not doing my body or others’ harm, treating my body and others’ with care, constitutes “human dignity.”
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one, nv53. That’s OK!