Hard-Hitting Political Interview

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama

Zach, he's not our ambassador.

The election Will Be Won On The Beer Aisle

Apparently all this hubub over who will be the next president is just a waste of time. Well, we already knew that, but now we know how to figure out who will win based on beer. If they would have listened to me, I coulda told them this a long time ago...

I prefer Amstel, Stella, and Yazoo microbrew from here in Nashville. I guess that means 4 more years, but with fewer taxes, and gay marriage rights with every gun purchase. Stay thirsty my Bastards...

This Could Be Fun

Notice I didn't say good. Tim Burton producing, Timur Bekmambetov directing! Based on the Seth Grahame-Smith book from a couple summers ago.

Decision 2012

Finally, someone explains the Presidential candidate choices in a way I can understand. 

Let Me See Your Surprised Look

From The New York Times:

When talking about the Tea Party movement, the largest number of respondents said that the movement’s goal should be reducing the size of government, more than cutting the budget deficit or lowering taxes.

And nearly three-quarters of those who favor smaller government said they would prefer it even if it meant spending on domestic programs would be cut.

But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security — the biggest domestic programs, suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”

Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.

Others could not explain the contradiction.

“That’s a conundrum, isn’t it?” asked Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif. “I don’t know what to say. Maybe I don’t want smaller government. I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security.” She added, “I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need. I think I’ve changed my mind.”

Colbert vs. The Commercial Appeal

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The Word - Locked and Loathed

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NASA Name Contest

Hot news item around here, but didn't know the attention would spread to Comedy Central.

New Yorker endorsement gets it right, I think

In what amounts to mostly preaching to the choir, I recommend you read this well-written, comprehensive, and thoughtful endorsement of Obama by the New Yorker. It does a very good job of encapsulating most of the lucid and legit arguments in favor of an Obama presidency, with relatively little knee-jerk quotient.

So I Guess They Have His Gun Now ...

Last week's news, but Moses has left the building.

Warrantless Wiretapping Explained..

Hope you're all having safe and snugly weekends.

Bring On the Swift Boats

Yikes.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican Mike Huckabee said Sunday he would not back down from a 1998 statement in which he said he hoped Baptists would "answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."

I'm not sure which is scarier, the fact that this could be our next president, or that most of my family and co-workers would vote for him. Or that he's probably a less scary Republican candidate than anyone other than McCain.

Andy's Top 15 - Thumbs Up!

Now that I've had time to digest Andy's list, I have to say it kicks bloody ass! I'm loving the Libertines, thanks (you don't happen to have "Up the Bracket" do you?). I hope you will update your blogger profile soon, with totally fallacious, but cleverly self-revelatory personal data. And get a better avatar. Delighted you're on board! Best addition we've had since Lurker Mike!

Adios, Pendejo

Another case of what is probably a decent person brought down through his loyalty to assholes.

Bushfoot: Man or Beast?

I've long felt that the sentence-commuter-in-chief had a primitive brain, but he's even starting to look like the old wookie of the Pacific northwest. Spooky, huh?

As if we didn't already have enough worries with North Korea and Iran

Liechtenstein Successfully Tests Teeny Tiny Nuclear Bomb

Well this is a little scary..

Mr. Becker Goes to Washington

So last week I was one of the chaperones for a trip to Washington D.C. Twenty of our juniors were invited by the Governor of N.C., Mike Easley, to attend the National Summit on the Silent Epidemic (which refers to the astronomical dropout rate in the U.S.- about 30%). We were in a pretty small conference with some big hitters: Tim Russert, Frank Sesno, David Broder, some Senator from New Mexico, the governors of Rhode Island, North Carolina, and New Hampshire, Secretary of Education Stallings and First Lady Laura Bush. We met most of the above, with the exception of the First Lady, and the kids got a guided tour of the Capitol and attended the world premiere of a new MTV/Gates Foundation documentary, "The Dropout Chronicles". The premiere was a swanky cocktail party (sodas only for the kids and chaperones!) and was hosted by Sway, some MTV celebrity that the kids were thrilled to meet. Anywho, the whole thing was pretty cool and the kids enjoyed themselves and were, I must say, incredibly well-behaved. In the above picture, I am the partially obscured white guy to the right.

Ben Sargent

Ben Sargent is the political cartoonist for the Austin American-Statesman. I would have to say he is one of the best in the business these days. Besides the fact that he draws like nobody's business, he's also consistently irreverant and makes Bush and the other wingnuts look like the morons they are. You know he's good because he gets ripped on in the letters to the editor almost everyday. A lot of his stuff is very Texas-centric, focusing on Texas Governor Rick Hairstyle Perry and the pinheads in the Texas Lege, but his best stuff goes after Dubya.

More here.

..And in other neanderthal news

"And the main thing ... I'm not sure what in the world that has to do with being president of the United States," said the former Arkansas governor.
-Mike Huckabee, after acknowledging (along with 2 other GOP presidential candidates) that he does not believe in evolution.
America, can we please just not do this?

George W. Jedi

YouTube is revolutionizing how Americans waste their time. There are lots of great Robot Chicken shorts out there these days from Adult Swim, most of which are worth 4 minutes of what's left of your life.

The Latest Media Pawns

Rutgers player: "We'd just like to express our great hurt."

My first thought at the Don Imus controversy was, "Thank God something sufficiently newsworthy has come along to shove Anna Nicole off the front page!" Nevermind about a depressing war and the advancing nuclear weapons capability of some of our third-world enemies, a DJ has said something ugly about someone! Al Sharpton's involved? Sweet! But now that the insulted Rutger's team has agreed to meet with Imus to "express their great hurt," it's starting to depress me. I think they're being manipulated by the interests at work in the situation. It's all fine when it's a couple of sparring media clowns, but now they're trying to cast real people in key roles and I don't think anyone has bothered to tell them it's just theater.