Best metaphor for the Democratic Party ever.
I love Jon Stewart.*
*In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as the General would say.
Category: Funny
Jon Stewart on Religious Tolerance
Well really, it’s less about tolerance than it is an equal opportunity slam at the extremists in general, noting that when you take the Tanakh, Christian Bible, or Koran literally, you see violence, and hatred, and perhaps the problem is that taking the text literally.
There is also the prize line, “Who’s funding these radical Christian clerics?”
It Looks Like a Commenter on the Blog Will Become Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors
Austan Goolsbee, who I’ve posted about a dozen times or so, objected to a post of mine, and I (with permission) posted his response to my blog.
Well, Goolsbee has written extensively suggesting that things like Obama’s proposed R&D tax cut don’t offer a whole bunch of bang for the buck, though he has argued that he thinks the current situation **cough** incipient deflationary spiral **cough** create a somewhat different dynamic.
Well, the scuttlebutt is that Dr. Gooolsbee is going to replace Christina Romer as the chairman of the President’s CEA, and J.W. Mason has the best line that I’ve heard in a while about this:
Looks like Goolsbee is the perfect pick to succeed Romer — his advice is already being ignored even before he’s been hired.
It’s a reference to the fact that Romer’s thoughts on the stimulus were not even passed on to Barack Obama for review, and the point being made is that in a choice between economists and the economy (Goolsbee, Volker), and shills for finance and the finance industry (Summers, Geithner), that Obama will go with the latter unless absolutely forced to do so.
It’s a great line.
Dummies on 51 Park and Religious Tolerance
Not The Daily Show, but close.
It had to be put up on September 11.
BTW, watch the entire thing. There is this bit at the end that is prize.
I am Forced to Admit That a Mime Can Serve a Constructive Function:
It makes Natalie Imbruglia tolerable.
H/t Salamir Abulamahalamatandra Slitskins.
If This Were Any Cuter, It Would Be Banned in Boston
So now we know that the big cats like catnip too:
H/t Cogitamus.
Your Friday of Muppets
This is so wrong:
The Completely Honest Job Interview
I’m so going to do this one day:
This is a Great Musical F%$# You
And completely not safe for work.
I guess you would call what Cee Lo Green is doing here R&B, and while I am not an avid follower of the genre, I rather like this.
Deep Thought
If you are a, “whacko, my parents are first cousins, X-Files wannabe, black helicopter, tinfoil hat wearing, stupid, dim-witted, thinks pro wrestling is real,” lunatic,* as well as a raving bigot, it’s probably not a good idea to allow yourself to be interviewed by a The Daily Show correspondent:
*Sorry, I think that I just channeled the comedian Denis Leary.
The Definitive Word on Dr. Laura
Courtesy of The Daily Show:
Funniest screen crawl ever!
How To Scare White People…
Do not have anything in your mouth when you click play. (Marginally SFW)
Black people brunch Hard, son: (5:15)
In the Navy……
I am left speechless.
I am also far less concerned about a remilitarized Japan:
One of Life’s Deeper Questions
Are they Nazi zombies, or zombies who were formerly Nazis?
The Circle of Life
Heal the Bay has produced a video describing the migration of the common plastic bag.
And yes, that is Jeremy Irons narrating.
For the Sci-Fi Geek in All of Us
So completely not safe for work, except, perhaps if you work in a library.
Is Fox News a Terrorist Command Center?
National treasure Jon Stewart wants to know:
Brilliant!
I think that I injured myself laughing:
Outrage Over Plans To Build Library Next To Sarah Palin
PLANS to build a state-of-the-art library next to Republican catastrophe Sarah Palin are causing outrage across mainstream America.…………
Meanwhile President Obama has caused unease within his own Democratic party by endorsing the library and claiming that not everyone who reads books is responsible for calling Mrs Palin a f%$wit nutjob nightmare of a human being.
But Bill McKay, a leading member of the right-wing Teapot movement, said: “Sarah Palin is a hallowed place for Americans who can’t read.“How is she going to feel knowing that every day there are people going inside a building to find things out for themselves and have thoughts, right in the very shadow of her amazing nipples.”
(%$# mine)
No go read the whole thing. It’s pretty short.
Stewart Does Beck
Damn, he is good!
Gr8 Practical Joke
A few years back, some people in and around San Diego commissioned a sculpture of a surfer called the “Magic Carpet Ride”.
It’s been rather controversial amongst the surfers, who felt that the statue, “short of the macho image they thought their sport should project.”
As a result of this, it has been a target of of some pranks since it was unveiled in 2007.
This is, of course not particularly surprising, when you juxtapose a statue and a sub-culture that prides itself on being unconventional:
Ever since, the statue, known locally — and derisively — by local surfers as the “Cardiff Kook,” has routinely been dressed in different costumes by snarky locals. At various times, the statue of a young male surfer has been adorned with a ballerina’s tutu and luche libre wrestler’s mask, a woman’s bikini and other costumes, most recently a tennis outfit with racket.
That being said, about a month ago, some prankster has entered realm of the masters of the art.
He, and his minions, got jiggy late one night with some serious paper mâché. They encased the statue in the maw of a large Great White Shark,* creating the illusion of his being swallowed up by a gargantuan selachian.
This is up there in the “one for the ages” category, up there with Davidson HS senior Kyle Garchar, who got the fans from Darby high school to spell out “we suck” at the Darby-Davidson football game.
Brilliant, just brilliant.
*Actually, it might be big enough for C. Megalodon. That’s one big mofo.