Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys - P.J. O'Rourke
Peter Schiff is a radio host, and one of them big wheelin’ bankers the tent-folk’r all riled up about. In 2007 he argued that the US was headed for a financial crash, and an outspoken opponent of the crony/phony capitalism that’s brought us to this point. In these two videos he engages the OWS protestors, and then Dr. Cornel West. Enjoy.
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La Blogoteque has an awesome video of Mumford & Sons performing in an alley in France. They perform two songs, one translated into French. What’s really spectacular is the camerawork. In an age of MTV quick cuts, each song gets one shot. The shooter freely wanders around and focuses on different aspects of the environment. Sit back, relax, and watch the whole thing in HD.
Mumford & Sons – The Banjolin Song / Awake my soul – A Take Away Show #105 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
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Whitest Kids U Know are no strangers to acute political satire (everybody remember the Honest Politician ad from last year?), and their video for the newest summer fun product is no slouch. The Nerf Nuke sounds pretty frightening, but these tots have an admirable handle on realpolitick.
“Ok, that kid can definitely not get a nerf nuke.”
“Maybe we should just jump him now, while we can.”
“But he hasn’t done anything to us. Isn’t that kind of messed up?”
/*savage beating ensues*
Wrap that all up in a flag and Bill Kristol will buy Nerf stock like it’s going out of style.
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I grew up among trees and farmlands, mountains and rivers and beaches with water like salted ice. I’ve never spent much time in the desert, but I don’t like it. It’s harsh and hateful, a land foreign, untrusting, and untrustworthy. Still, there’s an alien weirdness that is, in the right light, something like beautiful.
Ransom Riggs made this beautiful, startling, and sad video about one of the deserts saddest and uniquely alien places. The Salton Sea is California’s largest lake, but it’s a nauseating post-apocalyptic hellscape, inhabited by one crazy old man and thousands of dead fish. It’s one of the forgotten places of the desert, monument to hubris and the failure of foresight, and the punishing power of the earth turned foul.
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El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky – Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo.
Since I don’t speak Spanish (but did just eat a whole wheel of cheese), I ran the description through Google Translate. Laugh at the hilarious broken spanglish with me:
Scenes taken from Tenerife, more than 2,000 meters above sea level and over a year to capture all possible shades, clouds, stars, colors from a unique landscape and from one of the best skies on the planet.
First in a series of videos nocturnal and Twilight Time Lapse taken in the Canary Islands trying to capture the beauty of each island.
HAHA STOOPID COMPUTE… dammit. You win this round, Google.
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Asian carp are a serious problem. They’re displacing local fish and endangering ecosystems across North America. According to Wikipedia:
Silver Carp (AKA “The A-holes of the sea”) are a pesky fish which are not indigenous to the Illinois River but have nonetheless invaded, setting up their annoying fish trailers and reproducing out of control and holding guppy fights on their front lawns next to the little plastic scuba diver they’ve put up on blocks. If Silver Carp had hair, they’d style it into super mullets. F**k Silver Carp, for real.
Whoops, that’s from Gamma Squad. Actual Wiki entry:
Bighead, silver, and grass carp are known to be well-established in the Mississippi River basin (including tributaries) of the United States, where they at times reach extremely high abundances, especially in the case of the bighead and silver carp. Bighead, silver, and grass carp have been captured in that watershed from Louisiana to South Dakota, Minnesota, and Ohio. Grass carp are also established in at least one other watershed, in Texas, and may be established elsewhere.
These fish are thought to be highly detrimental to the environment in parts of the United States.[9] Because of these concerns, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service convened stakeholders to develop a national plan for the management and control of invasive Asian carp (referring to bighead, silver, black and grass carp).[10] The plan was accepted by the National Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force in the fall of 2007.
But like most government programs, this one is filled to the gills with carp. *Puts on wacky glasses, moonwalks offstage.* But for reals, some local heroes have taken action where government has failed, and to the Peoria Carp Hunters, I say, EXCELSIOR GLADIATORS OF THE WAVES.
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