Lee on Nov 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Boy, I love this charming ad for the Washington state secret tax on the poor lottery.
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Lee on Nov 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Pretty neat video visualization of edits to the Barack Obama Wikipedia entry from 2005 to election day.
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Lance on Oct 17 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Humor, Lance's Page
Heh, heh, heh.
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Lee on Oct 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Equal to the horror of this, is the futility.
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Lee on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Joe Biden says Hillary Clinton would have been a better pick than himself. A little amusing naturally, but I’m impressed by the candor and humility of it. Fine characteristics for a serving vice president who is expected to exert substantial influence on foreign policy.
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Lee on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
9/11 Denial comedic interlude of the day. I’d say we’re approaching a existential bomb philosophy moment with Andrew Kornkven and those of similar sentiment. One in which absolutely everything becomes a manufactured illusion to justify hidden purposes. A cynic might observe that it’s a pointless moment if so, given that in the end the bomb [...]
Lee on Sep 05 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Sarah on babysitting, energy independence and CS Lewis in the Charlie Rose Green Room:
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MichaelW on Aug 25 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Media, MichaelW's Page
Because the blogosphere and all its scions have much more prominence, and arguably more influence, with respect to this year’s election, I’ve been lazily paying more attention to how new media is tackling the subject at hand. I think the following presentation is a prime example of what new media can offer, and foreshadows [...]
Lee on Aug 15 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
CCTV video capture of Russian soldiers robbing a Gori bank at gunpoint. While plunder has a bit of an enduring tradition in the Russian army even in modern times, this is pretty extreme. I’d be abusing the event as metaphor, as no army is immune to such temptations, but it does seem that the duocrat’s [...]
ChrisB on Aug 15 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
This is more for Lance than anyone else.
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Lee on Aug 14 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Media
Georgian television reporter Tamara Urushadze gets shot by a Russian sniper as she delivered a live report near Gori. Tough girl, she finishes the report without a tear.
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Lee on Aug 09 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tsitsernakaberd (photo: Adam Lederer)
Just when bewilderment at the spectacle of Steve Cohen going absolutely berserk on an Armenian film crew had started to subside (they were trailing him over his opposition to recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide), I read that an Armenian socnet war is on the make.
Due to the perception that Obama is [...]
Lee on Aug 07 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
(photo: WBEZ Chicago Public Radio | site)
Obama’s newish McSame style attack ad mocking McCain’s “original maverick” slogan is fairly good. As Ken Wheaton notes, all the time McCain had to spend trying to convince the GOP he was a loyal Republican, unfortunately produced a lot of pro-Bush statements on videotape. Also, I like the Rovian [...]
Lee on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: History, Lee's Page
Video clip of victims of the Terror recounting their experiences at the hands of the secret police. The levity that many exhibit in revisiting the systematic decimation of human dignity they experienced, is the ageless strength of Russia as a nation. The inhuman brutality they describe, is the curse of that great and unfortunate nation’s [...]
Lee on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The Club for Growth has a clip of Mitch McConnell’s struggles to find a price for gasoline which is high enough to persuade congressional Democrats to authorize expanded oil drilling. A bit of a theatrical exercise of course, but there is a certain discomfort in seeing Ken Salazar casually reject $10 a gallon as insufficient.
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Lee on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The way to travel. (via Adverbox)
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Lee on Aug 05 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Uh-oh, Paris doesn’t like John McCain. But wasn’t that sorta the point? It’s amazing how McCain has cheapened the process through involving her though. However…perhaps not entirely for the bad. The 10% of the world that wasn’t paying attention to this election just started watching.
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Lee on Aug 05 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Jon Stewart hilariously ridicules the notion that McCain’s advertising contains hidden racist and sexist messages.
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Lee on Aug 03 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Francis Fukuyama chats with Robert Kagan on a number of interesting things: Flash | WMV | MP3 (via: The American Interest).
Of immediate interest is Kagan’s notion that the the emergence of global multipolarity induces an imperfect, baseline bipolarity of ideological division in diplomacy, between the West and the surging authoritarians of the “New East.”
In [...]
Lee on Aug 03 2008 | Filed under: Culture, Domestic Politics, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
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After writing about the Ronpaulist fear mongering of Jordan Page, and then reading Lance’s splendid post on the latest contheorist pandering of Glenn Greenwald, a common insight has reoccurred to me: the absurd amount of cognitive dissonance conditional to political paranoia.
This is something Christopher Hitchens explored quite adeptly last year at the “Four Horsemen” [...]
Lee on Aug 02 2008 | Filed under: History
Here’s a five part Uncommon Knowledge segment featuring a superb pairing of Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson, to discuss the new World War II revisionism led by Pat Buchanan. While it’s an entertaining exercise for a Saturday, I’ll warn you that there’s a certain weakness to the discussion, given that both Hanson and Hitchens [...]
Lee on Jul 31 2008 | Filed under: Economics
Anti-Wal-Mart hysteria seems to have curiously abated somewhat since the corporation started giving more generously to the Democratic Party. Not an uncharacteristic phenomenon for the centralized extortion tactics –er, “grassroots activism” of such campaigns.
But there are still some people creatively fighting the not-so-good fight against your freedom to choose where to shop. This is [...]
Lee on Jul 31 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
The Obama campaign has a new video response to McCain. It’s an interesting approach. The heart of the ad is the beginning, in which quotes from major pro-Obama media editorials are superimposed over McCain, calling his (unspecified) criticism “baseless,” “baloney,” etc.
Since there is some evidence in the polls that the positive press attention Barack has [...]
Lee on Jul 30 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Lee's Page
The power of capitalism in a lovely little ad by Nexus Productions for the Royal Bank of Canada:
Quicktime Video via Motionographer.
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Lee on Jul 29 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Lee's Page, Libertarianism
Looks like the Libertarian Party of Kentucky has dumped Sonny Landham, previously their clinically insane pick for US Senate. Good for them. Even if given the psychopathic nature of Landham’s views, I feel a little like I’m congratulating them for breathing.
While the Obama campaign might like to think that the LP could pose a serious [...]
Lee on Jun 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
In much of the former Soviet Union, urban heating is still managed at the block rather than per-building level. This is causing some protest from a population growing accustomed to a new ethos of individual convenience. Something we’ve always taken for granted in the the largely non-centrally planned West.
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Lee on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Wow. They beat the crap out of this elderly school teacher, because she chanted for Hillary at the Rules & Bylaws Committee meeting: video. (via FDL). I suppose that’s one way to put down internal insurrection. Not a very good one though in a building full of cameras.
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Lee on May 31 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Politics makes for strange bedfellows. Vowing to vote McCain, an outspoken, paranoid and hopefully drunk Hillary supporter gets tossed out of the Democratic Rules & Bylaws Committee meeting, raving about race and CIA surveillance: video.
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Lee on Feb 29 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Video flashback from 2004. Bill Clinton:”If one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes…” You know where that’s going. Ahem. Clearly these were not carved in stone.
(HT: BigDog)
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Lee on Feb 22 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Drake vs. Rooster. Who will win in the ultimate battle for barnyard supremacy?
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Lee on Feb 22 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
photo: Martin Dixon
Here’s a grim laugh for your Friday morning. A Muslim propaganda video which preposterously seeks to explain the death and burial of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 1st century, as the result of the wrath of Allah against the decadent Roman empire. The video marvels at how people were struck down with little [...]
Lee on Feb 19 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Meet Alan Finch (video report). Alan became Helen Finch at 21, through sexual reassignment surgery…and then became Alan again when he was thirty. As you can see above, the results of his original surgery were extraordinarily effective. But Alan has decided he was misdiagnosed as suffering from gender identity disorder, and is now suing the [...]
Lee on Feb 18 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Hillary is Tracy Flick.
HT: All of it
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Lee on Feb 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
You don’t have to be Colombian for this beautiful advertisement to touch your heart.
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Lee on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
I am really enjoying the cinematic PETA ads depicting KFC’s Colonel Sanders as an evil prison warden abusing anthropomorphic chicken men. This one in particular is hilarious. The premise and message is too ridiculous to take seriously as any kind of political message, thus it transcends its purpose to become genuine entertainment. One wonders [...]
Lee on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
At some point along the way Obama became the pragmatist’s choice. Hillary used to own that territory when concerns turned to electability, but that’s all over with now. Perception is as PoliticalBuzz puts it, “Obama is someone who can rally a broad base.” Combining the leftist base with the moderate infrastructure is always difficult. But [...]
Lee on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Isn’t it unfortunate when a truly awful movie has a truly spectacular intro.
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Lee on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The vacuous Draft Bloomberg movement has made a viral video. I have no idea how this is supposed to make me support him. I’m not sure they even know why they support him. No policy proposals, no platform, no definable ideology, no ideas at all. At least Ross Perot had plans and proposals (and lots [...]
Lee on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Never tease a camel: Video.
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Lee on Feb 08 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
If like Keith and myself you were in doubt as to whether there were boos among the introductory applause for John McCain at CPAC (apart from this obvious moment), be not in doubt.
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Lee on Feb 06 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Italy’s President, Georgio Napolitano, has called a snap election after the collapse of the leftwing coalition government last month. This paves the way for a remarkable comeback by conservative Silvio Berlusconi, who is running ten points ahead of his center-left opponent in polls. (BBC Video Report)
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Lee on Feb 05 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Video clip of Sean Hannity asking Frank Luntz’s group of Democratic Obama supporters to name one (1) specific accomplishment of their candidate. They all fail embarrassingly and resort to offering Obama’s personality characteristics as achievements. One young girl does manage to meekly submit “community organizer,” which may be a valid allusion to Barack’s accomplishments on [...]
Lee on Feb 04 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
75% of Germans believe that their society is hostile to children. That’s a toxic attitude to combine with an appalling 1.3 children-per-woman fertility rate. Well below the replacement rate, the country is literally dying out over time. To attack the problem, a consortium of German advertising agencies and media firms have launched a €30 million [...]
Lee on Feb 03 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Israel Matzav has a video clip of a report on the Al Qaeda attack on the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania. You have to lament for the investigation when your eye witness refers to the scene of the attack as “the embassy of the Zionist Entity.”
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Lee on Feb 03 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Video of why I should have been a French pilot. Somewhat NSFW. Some tabloid back story on the scandal.
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Lee on Feb 02 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Painfully cute video. Fair warning.
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Lee on Feb 01 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Video of Ann Coulter endorsing Hillary Clinton and pledging to campaign for her. Perhaps a worse political catastrophe for Team Hillary than drivers licenses for illegals.
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Lee on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Do you remember in the 80s when there were these bizarre quasi-political trash shows with psychopathic screaming hosts on television and the radio? They were something like a combination of Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Springer. Here’s video of two of the worst getting into a fight over who is more “conservative.” Wally wins, but his [...]
Lee on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Horrible audio and video quality, but here’s Joey Ramone performing Maria Bartiromo live. Joey would be dead six months later, but the financial industry and markets he celebrated and loved live forever. You can download a high quality version of this classic track here for ninety-nine cents.
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Lee on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Somewhat dated but excellent documentary on the psychopathic depravity of Amin’s rule. The moment of macabre high comedy, in which Amin declares he has unilaterally withdrawn his army from Tanzania in the name of neighborly brotherhood during the Ugandan - Tanzanian War (when in fact his forces had been annihilated by the Tanzanian army’s [...]
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