Penn & Teller on Marriage Equality

As I have mentioned, Isaac and I do not have our finger on the pulse of American popular culture, in large part because we don't have cable television because we never watch television anyway. Thus, I didn't know that Penn & Teller have a series on Showtime called "Bullshit!".

They do and I know it now, thanks to Good As You ("Video: It's bad when Penn & Teller use less smoke & mirrors than WaPo"). In two ten-minute parts they provide some amusement that happens to be relevant to the ongoing social "debate" in our country about marriage equality.

They also use facts and analysis to dispel a lot of fog puffed out by proponents of so-called "traditional marriage", calling "bullshit!" on the notion that marriage equality will somehow be the end of civilization. There is indeed some salty language, but I takes my scienticity where I finds it. To say more might give away the jokes.

Part I

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Part II

[YouTube link for those who don't see the embedded player.]

Posted on August 31, 2009 at 11.50 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Current Events, Laughing Matters

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