Haha, I thought about upping it to 5, but then my fingers fell off. So I didn't. (I'm typing right now with the aid of an incredibly helpful horse I met on the way to Cornwall. His hooves may not be delicate, but by God they're efficient.)
...Believe it or not, I actually started that paragraph with the intention of making myself seem less certifiably insane than implied by my increasingly hysterical VMs the other day. Oh, this is going so well already. :P Never mind! Onwards!
'omfg lmao. Best thing EVER.' OMG I KNOW RIGHT. :D It's the first thing I've read in ages that's made me itch to get the keyboard out and do my own. (Not about JONAS, you understand. I've never seen it, nor do I have any particular inclinations in that direction. But about SOMETHING.)
'If I can find it I'll show it to you!' Yes! Totally do! Or write something new and wonderful and sparkling and present it to me in a gold-leaf box with tissue paper and glitter! (Or, you know, just via PM. But gold-leaf is always appreciated.)
'I've read Christopher's book God Is Not Great, may he rest in peace.' YOU HAVE NOT! I totally want to read it, just never had time :( I love him in debates though. He's so... articulate. And frighteningly clever. RIP.
As for Penn... that video is basically just to show how nice he is, haha. He's like Hitch with impeccable manners and a genuine wish to listen to people and understand them. Before I go, here's my favourite exchange from that video:
Morgan: You must be terrified of death, because that's it, right?
Jillette: Not at all! Not even slightly!
Morgan: But what do you think happens to you?
Jillette: How scared are you of 1890? Does 1890 terrify you?
Morgan: 1890? What are you on about?
Jillette: You weren't alive, then, right? You didn't exist in any way. Is that a horror to you?
Morgan: No.
Jillette: So why is 2090 any worse than that?
I would NEVER have thought of that. And it's such a clever response to the 'aren't you scared?' line of argument (which sucks on a whole other level, because believing something because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate is just daft... but let's not get into that). It's just this amazing reminder that non-existence has already happened for all of us. It's not some alien and terrifying concept.
But yes yes watch it and tell me bits you like or hate and yay we can have chuckles together :D