Dan Hagen

It’s hard to believe CNN would send some rookie college newspaper reporter out to interview the founder of Wikileaks. What were they thinking? The reporter was warned, repeatedly. In her defense, it looks like she has a pre-established line of questioning that she’s being forced to stick to, but a decent journalist would stop prying and at least get some material, rather than just ruining the interview. She’s probably in much bigger trouble now than she would’ve been if she had just gone off script.

The interview is supposed to be about the ~100,000 unreported deaths in Iraq revealed by the documents that Wikileaks posted on Friday, not about Assange’s own issues.

Also, fuck terrible lighting. The reporter has a bright white aura around her, and Julian Assange is put into a garish red hue like they’re trying to make him look like the devil. This whole interview stinks.

Poor guy. He seems tired and stressed.

If you need rules, laws, or religion to make up for your own lack of an inner moral compass, congratulations, you’re a psychopath.

There is no objective morality.

In some societies it was perfectly acceptable to eat people.

Slavery was a matter of economics, and morality wasn’t something even considered until there was an effective means replacing human labor.

It is honorable to murder in certain contexts.

The theist may say that God gives reality to morals, but in that case it’s a code of ethics which God would insist we obey. They aren’t “real”.

Likewise an atheistic view would be the same, but substituting societal consensus for God.

Morals are still a construct.

It isn’t.

It is a very sad state of affairs that human body parts can be age-inappropriate. Everyone has body parts, but we’re creating a culture of intolerance and ignorance by hiding natural human biology from kids. Knowledge and acceptance is what we should be instilling in the minds of children. A naked body isn’t something to be ashamed of (or gawked at).

• Coldplay is Radiohead for people who don’t like Radiohead.
• Johnny Cash is folk/country for folks who don’t like folk/country.
• Gorillaz is hip-hop for people who don’t like hip-hop.
• Owl City is catnip for 14 year old girls who don’t like making decisions.
• Smashing Pumpkins is fecal matter for people who don’t like excrement.

And last, but not least,

• Nickleback is ‘music’ for people that don’t like music.

Ripped from this reddit thread.

Here are all of the video games that I’ve accumulated through Steam over the past few years, but have not finished yet:

• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
• Bioshock
• Borderlands
• Braid
• Call of Duty
• Call of Duty 2
• Call of Duty: United Offensive
• Call of Duty: World at War
• Dead Space
• Deus Ex
• DiRT
• Doom 3
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point
• F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate
• Fallout 3
• Grand Theft Auto III
• Grand Theft Auto IV
• Half Life 2
• Just Cause 2
• Manhunt
• Metro 2033
• Painkiller
• Real Myst
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
• Silent Hill: Homecoming
• Thief: Deadly Shadows
• Wolfenstein 3D
• World of Goo

That is way too many games. There are a handful I’m playing right now, and will likely be finished soon. There are some that I got a long time ago and I started playing, but forgot about. Don’t make fun of me because I never finished Half Life 2. I got really damn far – really far- until I wiped my computer’s hard drive sometime in 2008 and I never bothered to start a new save file. Granted though, I started another one and will be finished sooner or later.