Mike Tidmus

Qi highlight – The Miracle of the Herrings (video: Katanalikeskittens at YouTube)

Hitchens and Fry vs. Ann Widdecombe on the Ten Commandments (video: Atheist Media Blog at YouTube) In 1993, crazed conservative, faith-biased anti-gay and Member of the British Parliament, Ann Widdicombe left the Church of England over its decision to ordain women as priests. She became a Roman Catholic. The Conservative MP for Maidstone and the [...]

From Big Think, Stephen Fry (video: Big Think) From comedian, author and non-believer Stephen Fry: You know if we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps [...]

The Intelligence Squared Debate (video: BBC, via iqsquared) This multi-section video program from the BBC posits the question: Is the Catholic Church a force for good in the world? That would be the same Catholic Church that opposes the use of condoms to fight AIDS, opposed civil marriages for LGBT Mainers and Californians, and is [...]

Stephen Fry (photo: Steve Forrest/Rex Features) My friend Andy Harley, at UK Gay News, points to this must-read (there I go again!) essay by noted British humorist, author, actor, director, television presenter, non-believer, openly gay man and revered polymath Stephen Fry: Stephen Fry’s letter to himself: Dearest absurd child Just who was the young, arrogant [...]

In the glossary of his lovely, lovely book, The Ode Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within, the equally lovely Stephen Fry defines the limerick thusly: Limerick: You know perfectly well. Apparently certain people don’t know perfectly well. Here are three limericks in response. Save the limerick! by Mike Tidmus In LaBarbera’s attempts at verse, To [...]

Stephen Fry atop Mount Washington (Photo: Telegraph.co.uk) Who knew British author, filmmaker, bon vivant, gadget guru, openly gay man, and wit, Stephen Fry was nearly born an American? His father was offered a job at Princeton University, but decided that he’d prefer his children be raised in Britain. With his book, Stephen Fry in America, now in [...]

The versatile Mr Fry has graciously recorded and released his very own series of podcasts. The Times Online calls our attention to his most recent efforts. From the TimesOnline: Podcast of the week: Stephen Fry’s elegant rambles By Chris Campling Here’s a good aphorism: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote,” said Dr Johnson, “except for money.” [...]

Charles Prentiss (to Alan Boardman) : “How many times do I have to tell you? Nobody gives a fuck about the truth; that is why you employ me.”  (Image: BBC) Any misconception the viewer might hold that the world, as we know it, turns on the machinations of cunning politicians or their media minions is quickly jettisoned with a single [...]