A Little Lovin'

No matter what your politics, we can all enjoy a little YouTube lovin' from will.i.am:


PS- For another reminder that the 1950s were not the apex of American culture, check out this quick Cadillac comparison over at mnp: YouTube video clash

Greatest generation my ass- give us another Hitler and we'll attack Iran so fast your head will spin.

Welcome to the Republican Mind

Described as "A father teaches his liberal, Democrat, college student daughter why she is really a Republican," this little gem caught my eye a while ago, but I had forgotten about it until recently. Featured on an Oregon Republican Party county page, I've also seen it posted various places around the internet.

I would love to see someone do an analysis of this. The paternalistic themes are overpowering, as well as the innate hatred of intellectualism and logic.

Enough babble, just dig:

"Welcome to the Republican Party"

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat and supported the distribution of all wealth. She felt deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican which she expressed openly. One day she was challenging her father on his beliefs and his opposition to higher taxes on the rich & the addition of more government welfare programs. Based on the lectures that she had participated in and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that for years her father had obviously harbored an evil, even selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He stopped her and asked her, point blank, how she was doing in school. She answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain. She studied all the time and never had time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend and didn't really have many college friends because of spending all her time studying because of her more difficult curriculum. Her father listened and then asked, "How is your good friend Mary doing?" "Mary is barely getting by," she replied. "She barely has a 2.0 GPA, and all she takes are easy classes and she never studies. But Mary is extremely popular on campus. College, for her, is a blast. She goes to all the parties all the time and very often doesn't even show up for classes because she is too hung over." Her father then asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your 4.0 GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0? That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA." The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be fair! I worked really hard for mine and Mary has done little or nothing! She played while I worked real hard!" The father slowly smiled, winked and said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

Funk NBC

NBC may have taken down "Iran So Far Away" due to it being, um, popular, and thus bad for SNL's image, but a few intrepid pirates are still sailing the internet, uh, tubes.



Enjoy Mahmoud's silly brown eyes and butter pecan thighs.

Live from New York, It's Barack Obama!

Obama makes a cameo to introduce SNL. Sweet!

Better Together

While normally an insufferably pompous jackass, Thomas Friedman has written a nice little piece about the importance of working together to change our leaders like some burnt-out light bulbs.

As Friedman points out, your hybrid car don't mean shit if you vote for politicians who believe that having a 70 degree day in summer proves that global warming is a farce.

Republicans have proven exceedingly good at picking up small constituencies of libertarian anti-environmentalists, Rush Limbaugh devotees, and violent anti-choicers and managing to roll them into a ball of voters large enough to defeat regular folks. Needless to say, the politicians elected by this mass of generally anti-social, I-got-mine people are hardly progressive, let alone common-sense types of leaders.

So in this case Friedman is right: we are better together than apart. We mustn't fall into the marketing trap that tries to convince us that our purchases can substitute for real organizing and activism.

Dumbledore's Sexuality Revealed!

For some reason, I thought that I had seen the end of Harry Potter news. Nope!

From that esteemed bastion of world news, the BBC: "JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay:

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay."

Somewhere in Wichita, a schoolmarm's head just exploded.

Militant Christian loonies have long been Potter-bashing due to its blatant promotion of witchcraft and wizardry, in addition to causing millions of adults to read 700-page children's fantasy novels instead of participating in society.

PS- A recent gem I stumbled upon from a Republican "Values" Conference:

Braaaaains!

As if America wasn't already at risk of all types of nasty infections from Topps burgers, we now have to worry about having our BRAINS EATEN.


















Jesus Christ Almighty, as if there weren't enough people reading US Weekly already...