April 29, 2009

You're Gonna Love Vince Shlomi's Nuts...Or Else


This is particularly creepy considering Vince's recent, horrifying run-in with the law:



(via The Daily What)

April 27, 2009

I Believe The Children Are Our Future (well, duh)


New York City's PS22 5th Grade Chorus sings Bjork:



and performs with Crowded House:



Encore!



(via videogum's least cynical post ever)

"GOP Stripped Flu Pandemic Preparedness From Stimulus"


via The Huffington Post:
Remember way back in the day, President Obama delivered his Not Really The State Of The Union address, and the GOP trotted out Future Of The Republican Party Supra-Genius Bobbly Jindal to provide a rebuttal? Well, we all had some laughs, didn't we? Mainly because Jindal was all: "They want to spend stimulus money on volcano monitoring? Why everyone knows that the Hill Witch keeps tabs on our volcanoes by floating chicken bones in her own intestinal ichor!" And then Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted, suggesting there might be something to this "let's monitor volcanoes with government-funded science" idea.

Well, as it turns out, volcano monitoring wasn't the only worthwhile public safety program that was deemed extravagant in the stimulus package, funding for pandemic preparation was axed as well. And playing a critical role was Susan Collins -- for whom the necessity of obtaining her vote is in inverse proportion to the intelligence she shows in policy making...
And people wonder why I hate Republicans. Let's make sure none of them get their swine flu shots:

April 23, 2009

Auto-Tune the News


Mildly amusing; at times hilarious:



Yee Haw!


Go ahead Texas, secede:



(via AMERICAblog)

April 16, 2009

Guaranteed to Make You Smile


(especially if you're a Looney Tunes* fan)

Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" performed on harmonicas:

Sorry, But I Can't Get Enough of These Teabaggers


They truly are great patridiots:





Check out the entire Gin and Tacos photo essay here.

The Rude Pundit, Once Again, Knocks It Out of the Park

Yesterday, thousands of poor and middle-class people were manipulated into helping rich people keep more of their money. It's sort of like going to a Yankees game, but without the souvenirs.

(snip)

The whole day was filled with Fox-fanned falsehoods, starting with the whole acronym the protests adopted after "teabag" became the subject of mucho deserved mocking. "Taxed Enough Already" presupposes that taxes will be raised. And it seems that the tea partyers simply think that Barack Obama is lying to them when he says that the taxes for the vast, vast majority of Americans are lower under his plan. (On his radio show, Alan Colmes was screaming at callers who kept insisting that Obama was raising taxes for everyone.) The protests were against some fantasy administration, a sandwich of fascism on a socialism bun covered in a secret sauce of tyranny. It's like prayer: you can't really prove that it matters, but, hey, someone told you it was a good idea to do it, so down on your knees you go.
You can read the rest here (but you might be offended by some of the metaphors).

Well, That and the Tea




From a teabagging party in Houston. (h/t The Daily What)

April 15, 2009

Something That's Actually Not Stupid or Offensive


Presenting the You Tube Symphony Orchestra performing Internet Symphony No. 1 - Eroica:



and here's an interview with composer Tan Dun:

April 14, 2009

Our President Reads "Where The Wild Things Are"


Can you imagine W pulling this off? I still don't think he ever finished "My Pet Goat":



I'm sure the wingnuts are going to have something to say about this. Wild things?!?! Is this the Devil's book?

April 09, 2009

Talking Cat Videos Just Keep Getting Better and Better


The Argument Clinic Cat:



(h/t videogum...where else?)

Billy Bob Thornton Doesn't Know What You're Talking About


But he sure can reminisce about monster magazines:



Man, when did Billy Bob Thornton turn into such a lovely man.

April 08, 2009

Steve Does This To Wahoo All The Time




Fortunately, Wahoo doesn't do back flips (he's 11).

"I think you might be confusing tyranny with losing."


Last night's Daily Show and Colbert Report combined for one of the most entertaining yet informative hours in recent memory. Jon Stewart had a great interview with Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan Sadat, a wrap-up of President Obama's European adventure:

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and a blistering segment on whiney, rightwing losers who think Obama's a tyrant:

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Meanwhile, Colbert was knighted by Queen Noor of Jordan and ran one of his most flat-out hilarious segments of "Better Know a District":

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You can watch the full Daily Show episode here and the full Colbert Report here.

April 01, 2009

Ladies & Gentlemen, Academy Award Winning Actor Nicolas Cage




Seriously, this is his best work since Adaptation and Matchstick Men which he followed with two (two!) National Treasure movies, something called Lord of War, The Weather Man, World Trade Center, The Wicker Man remake (why oh why?), Ghost Rider (!), Next, Bangkok Dangerous and Knowing. Still to come within the next two years: Kick-Ass, G-Force, Astro Boy, the Bad Lieutenant remake (why oh why?!?), Season of the Witch and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

I think Nick is trying to set some sort of record for the number of bad movies made within a 5-6 year period.