Friday night, Jed Baer emailed a few of us about this video at the von Mises Institute, but it wouldn't load for me. Yesterday, LGF posted it. It's damned funny, but in a slightly disturbing way — both the overall idea and the positions of the panel members are just too close to the truth.
It's from the Onion News Network, which Charles Johnson called "one of the last remaining credible mainstream news sources." Enjoy!
Gee, after seeing this picture, I'm sorry I didn't watch the Obama infomercial. Looks like it was fun. It's hard to imagine Obama being annoyingly brash and loud, but ShamWow means "annoyingly brash and loud," doesn't it?
(Courtesy of Freeper Gloucester by way of NewsBusters)
If you're a fan of the charming, quirky, and seriously surreal ABC fantasy series Pushing Daisies (I am), and you'll be in the downtown Denver area this Wednesday, September 17th (I won't be, darn it), drop by Larimer Square (1430 Larimer Street) between 10 AM and 2 PM. The "Mobile Pie Hole" restaurant will be there. They'll be giving out free pie, pie cutters, spatulas, etc., and playing footage from the show on plasma TVs as waitresses on daisy bicycles ride around.
If you've seen the show, that made perfect sense. If not, take my word for it, it'll be fun.
Other upcoming Mobile Pie Hole visits are scheduled in Dallas, Chicago, Philly, and NYC. More info at Pushing Daisies Touch of Wonder Tour (requires Flash player).
The new season of Pushing Daisies begins Oct. 1. If you've never seen it and have a broadband connection, check it out online — you can watch several complete episodes here. I bet you'll become a fan.
According to the National Enquirer, John Edwards' mistress is getting $15,000 a month in hush money. No word on how much the mainstream media is getting.
I mentioned this site the other day in the comments to this post, but it's so deliciously funny that I don't want you to miss it. It's called Cheatneutral, and it puts the concept of carbon offsets into perspective:
What is Cheat Offsetting?
When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere.
Cheatneutral offsets your cheating by funding someone else to be faithful and NOT cheat. This neutralises the pain and unhappy emotion and leaves you with a clear conscience.
Can I offset all my cheating?
First you should look at ways of reducing your cheating. Once you've done this you can use Cheatneutral to offset the remaining, unavoidable cheating
Don't just glance at the home page. Check out the rest of the site (especially "About" and "Our projects"). These are apparently global warming believers, but they recognize the absurdity and hypocrisy of carbon offsets, and they have a great sense of humor.
Also, they appear to be legitimate. If you want to offset your cheating, you pay the £2.50 fee via PayPal, and they promise to email you a certificate "so you can prove to your loved one that your playing away has been successfully offset." If you sign up as an Offset Project, they promise to pay you that fee when you're matched with a cheater, and they say they don't take a cut. (I'll let you know if I'm matched and receive a payment.)
Why not become a project? Or maybe you need to buy a certificate?
David Aitken has finally ended his long hiatus from posting (and hopefully he'll be posting more regularly again; he has a knack for finding good stuff).
I guess David thought this was just too good not to share. And he's right!
If you're reading this at work, be forewarned before you click the link: today's Gerard Baker column at the UK Times Online is laugh-out-loud funny. Here's the opening:
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
Read the whole thing. Baker came up with some hilarious names. I especially liked "King Bill the Priapic."
Doug Ross posted this funny July 4th cartoon. It's originally from The People's Cube, a really great satire site that I lost track of and haven't visited in a while.
On the Fourth of July Americans will cynically celebrate the greatest setback world progress has ever endured in all of human history. The rest of humankind will, of course, be grieving over the dark day when the United States of America was born. To understand the full scope of this tragedy we must look back at the pre-7/04 world and see what it was like to live on planet Earth before 1776. ~ Prior to July 4, 1776, not a single person in the world starved, got sick, worked hard for a living, or experienced any pain and anxiety. No one had ever been oppressed or unfairly exploited because the oppressive and unfair American system had not yet been created. …
People never heard of wars, crime, corruption, slavery, torture, murder, cannibalism, and man-made hurricanes. Peace and harmony reigned supreme because the concepts of greed, selfishness, and private property had not yet been invented by the American corporate interests and maliciously spread around the world as part of the American cultural hegemony.
Read the whole thing. If you really like the cartoon, you can get it on a T-shirt; there's a link at the end of the post.
Oh, and here's a quick hit from their sidebar feature, "News we just don't have time to write about," that illustrates the deliciously wicked nature of The People's Cube's humor:
Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell vows city will be "vanilla" when rebuilt
Someone at the Libertarian Party national convention was handing out Vote Republican kits — the "kit" consisted of a clothespin for your nose. Along the same lines, Kevin Baker of The Smallest Minority came up with the political bumper sticker of the year, a must-have collector's item even if you don't plan to put one on your car to declare your tepid support:
Kevin has teamed up with Jed Baer of FreedomSight to make the sticker available for order (and help Jed out at the same time, which is also a good thing). Kevin explains it all in this post. In the update near the end, he sends you to Jed's order page — so if you're in a hurry, just go directly there and click the image to order.
Do it now! You never know how long something like this will be available, and you don't want to miss out, do you? Get a few extras for friends and relatives. And the next time you're out shopping, pick up a bag of clothespins — there could be a shortage later in the year.
Doug Ross shows you how to construct the quintessential hillbilly Christmas tree. Caution: be prepared to "tickle your innards" a whole bunch. Actually, you should probably have started collecting the materials months ago to avoid kidney damage and a huge caffeine and sugar overdose.
I hate to admit it, but I think the finished, lighted tree looks pretty damn cool. Nice tree-topper, too. 🙂
Glenn Reynolds said of this Fred Thompson video, "If he's got the guts to run this in Iowa and New Hampshire, he's got my vote . . . ." John Hawkins at Right Wing News (who put this together from IMAO's "Fred Thompson facts") thinks airing this constantly in Iowa would either assure Thompson of victory "…or he would actually drop into last place. One or the other."
I think Hawkins is right — running this as an ad would be a gamble, but it just might pay off big. Anyway, its fun. The concept is derivative of the various Chuck Norris jokes, but it's nicely done. I especially like this line: "In the Fred Thompson administration, there will be no need for the leaders of terrorist states to visit Ground Zero; Ground Zero will be wherever they live."
Oh yeah — if you like this video, you might want to check out IMAO's matching T-shirt.
Besides being bright, articulate, and consistently pro-freedom, John Caldara, the president of Colorado's Independence Institute, is one heck of a funny guy. He's the one who came up with the idea for the most politically incorrect event you can imagine, the annual Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms bash.
This year's Independence Institute Christmas card cracked me up. The front shows a snowman and snow-woman in Hawaiian shirts on a beach. The message inside is:
Promoting global climate change by wishing you the warmest holiday wishes. And may your carbon footprint grow in 2008.
Merry Christmas from your Freedom Fighters at the Independence Institute
I'm guessing either Caldara came up with that, or his wicked sense of humor has rubbed off on those around him. And I love having someone wish me a bigger carbon footprint — what a nice thought!
Personally, I like the runner-up, a Shrek iron-on T-shirt transfer that cautions "Do not iron while wearing shirt." See it and the other winners here.
The wacky folks who hang out at Fark posted some wacky warnings of their own (some real, others Photoshopped). And if you're not reading my blog regularly, you may have missed the wacky German biting trout warning.
