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This video, from fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton, reminds me of what I always expect snowboarding to feel like. Ethereal, effortless, beautiful. And for the first day each winter, it does feel like that. The wind and the rush, and the achy sweat as you ride the chairlift back up. I love it. After that first day, though, man is it cold. Hot toddies all around!
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I just recently heard about The Chaser’s War on Everything, a satirical Aussie show. The proposed original title was “The Age of Terror Variety Hour” and that’s the greatest thing ever.
In this video they poke fun at racial profiling. I love the presumed muslim with a thick Aussie accent claiming to be “just a bridge enthusiast”.
No joke, I want to do this show here in America. Let’s call it Whiskey & Car Keys Gets Terrorfied, or The War on The War on Terror. The War on Everything is still probably the best title. After watching this for thirty seconds, I have literally two dozen sketch ideas. Unfortunately, here in America you’d almost certainly get shot by trigger-happy johnny law. You know, in an isolated incident.
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I watched this once, cranked the thermostat to 95, and wrapped myself in five blankets. About to go sit in a steaming shower. BRRRR.
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It’s mean-spirited, but there something ineffably fun about watching the Republican hopefuls scratch and claw and fight for the chance to get slaughtered in November. Romney, Obama, Santorum, Newt, what’s the difference?
There are all kinds of stupid fears about Iran, and the odds are four-in-five we’ll be at war with them soon after the election. Einstein said we cannot both prevent and prepare for war. Mark Twain wrote about the true cost of victory. What would you say to an Iranian? Sure both those guys want to bomb your city, but the one has a better health care plan*, so I voted for him! I’M THE GOOD GUY HERE.
*They do not. This is a rationalization, or more succinctly, a lie.
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Can anyone remember a more honest and succinct campaign image? Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” poster was as blunt, but less accurate. Over at Slate, AJ Dellinger has a piece comparing the idealistic youthful support for Obama in ’08, and the idealistic youthful support for Ron Paul today. It’s interesting, albeit too broadly drawn to be really accurate. For instance, Ron Paul doesn’t support a universal healthcare system, like AJ seems to think all young people want. Maybe that’s because Paul is a doctor, and doctors are roundly against federal control? But I liked this section:
So when the traditional liberal means of protecting ourselves — uniting behind the government to promote action that benefits the common good — no longer serves our best interest, we begin to serve our own. We have a new set of morals that have been established because the old ones were no longer cutting it.
Libertarian critiques of government tend to be based on the idea/proofs that “uniting behind the government to promote action that benefits the common good” is either ineffective or inefficient.
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