Christopher Hitchens v. Sean Hannity

Doing the tour of the talk shows, flogging his book, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Hitchens shows Hannity to be a fool.

[In response to what he says a time mark 0:57 - The Engineer]




Something we're going to be talking about in Episode 7

Episode 006

This is Episode 006 of our podcast, titled "We are All Fucking Immigrants"

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This weeks interview is with Melanie the Library.

Born and raised in Alberta, Melanie obtained a Bachelors Degree at the University of Calgary in Philosophy. She then proceeded to obtain a Masters in Library Sciences at McGill University in Montreal. Currently Melanie is working as a consultant for an information technology firm in the Ottawa-Gatineau area. There she works with a diverse set of clients, helping them with their information organization need. Apparently, not everything is sorted by the Dewey Decimal system, or so she says.

Melanie doesn't have a blog or website for us to link to yet, so we will display this XKCD comic about librarians instead.

The following list of links are our works-cited or additional reading related to this episode.

• The Onion:Immigration: The Human Cost
• Calque on Wiktionary
• Blag Hag: Review of The Professor And the Dominatrix
• Law is Cool: The Honorable Jason "Pork chop" Kenney Blames the Immigrants
• YouTube: Republican's "Diversity" Convention
• YouTube profile: JasonKenneyMP
• Law Is Cool: Defunct Reform Party's Immigration Platform
• Enough of the Multiculturalism, Bring on the Melting Pot
• Joe.My.Blog:XenoPhoboQuotable - Rep. Betty Brown
• The Onion: Most Popular U.S. Baby Names
• Cyberpresse: De nouvelles obligations pour les immigrants >> [ENGLISH]
• Immigrer:Un nouveau contrat d’intégration pour les immigrants>>[ENGLISH]
• Canoe: Un «contrat» pour les immigrants>>[ENGLISH]
• Straight.com: Stephen Harper's Hidden Agenda
• Family Guy Quotes: We've been Cancelled
• [Petition]: Tell Parliament to Restore the CBC via rabble.ca

Most Popular US Baby Names as Presented by the Onion

I mentioned this in Episode 6: We're all fucking immigrants. Well Mostly as a counter to the xenophobic screed of Texas State Representative Betty-I Can’t think of an Ad Hominem Right Now–Brown:

"Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here. Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?” - Texas state Rep. Betty Brown, speaking to a member of the Organization Of Chinese-Americans. She refuses to apologize.

When I read that quote posted in Joe.My.God, I was reminded THE ONION "content node" which you see to above. Having lived and worked in Asia, I can attest that the adoption of insipid “English” names for the simplicity of dealing with the West is really, really common. It appears the fact that Chinese-Americans would have the gall to retain some of their ethnicity and heritage with Chinese surnames clearly bothers the fuck out of Representative Betty-I Can’t think of an Ad Hominem Right Now–Brown.

How dare they?