Comedian/pundit Bill Maher’s anti-religion documentary Religulous topped $6.7M at the end of its second weekend of release, expanding from 502 screens to 568. (For those keeping score, Ben Stein’s creationist apologetic Expelled earned $7.7M in eight weeks on over 1,000 screens.)
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Maher’s Religulous Approaches $7M
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Podcast #18 – The Catholic Church
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
The Catholic Church – We provide an overview on the good, the bad and the crazy aspects of the Roman Catholic Church. Purgatory. Limbo. Whatever.
Ben Stein – The frontman for the anti-science documentary Expelled opens his mouth and removes all doubt. He appeared on Trinity Broadcasting Network on April 21, 2008 and made some outrageous statements.
Meanwhile, we stumbled across The Mortal Storm, a 1940 movie starring Jimmy Stewart that addresses, among other things, just how (un)scientific the Nazi outlook was. [Link]
Podcast #16 – Expelled
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Expelled – We discuss Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, the new crock-umentary starring Ben Stein. For a thorough critique of Expelled, visit Expelled Exposed.
Ben Stein loses NYT gig, grip on reality
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Ben “Bueller…Bueller…” Stein has been let go from his biweekly gig writing a financial column for the New York Times, ostensibly because of his commercial work for a website called FreeScore.com and the associated (perceived?) conflict of interest. Now, normally I wouldn’t cover something so non-freethoughtish here, but now Stein has written a lengthy self-defense for The American Spectator, in which he blames everyone but the Illuminati for his ouster.
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