Ahhhh, Jon Stewart...

You Are So Painfully Funny (With Russian Subtitles, For Extra Irony and Human Impact)

found here (warning--there are a few very obviously dead bodies in some of the other posts)

tee hee

if only...

great webcomic. at least, as far as I've read--I started at the beginning.

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I am absolutely loving the freakonomics blog. For instance, this blurb about the application of the theory of supply and demand to the a shortage of single women in an Australian town. Apparently, the mayor, seeing opportunity for everyone, suggested addressing a 5-1 male/female ratio by advertising for ugly women elsewhere to improve their relative value by marketing themselves in a scarce area. Needless to say, this did not fly so well with local women, who feel inclined to protect their monopoly and elevated values on the man-market. Oh, and there's this swell link to a bit about the importance of defined property rights at an Elton John concert.

Surprise!

Wait for the humorous punchline, defensive religious Republicans!

"An article by Steven Waldman in the online magazine Slate provides some perspective on the divide:

"As you may already know, one of America's two political parties is extremely religious. Sixty-one percent of this party's voters say they pray daily or more often. An astounding 92 percent of them believe in life after death. And there's a hard-core subgroup in this party of super-religious Christian zealots. Very conservative on gay marriage, half of the members of this subgroup believe Bush uses too little religious rhetoric, and 51 percent of them believe God gave Israel to the Jews and that its existence fulfills the prophecy about the second coming of Jesus."

The group that Waldman is talking about is Democrats; the hard-core subgroup is African-American Democrats."

:) Paul Bloom in the Atlantic Monthly.

stuff of interest

--thank you luke, most interesting reading on the web--

termites are very impressive

Jesus is my Homeboy

don't really know what to think about this, but it's about theology and booze, and I think the author was overindulging just a tad in both...

and, hipster webcomics

can you think of a significant literary quote by an author born after 1950?



oh, and for Kat, another way to get the old creative-writing thing going again: stories in fifty-five words.

George Lucas, Q&A

George Lucas, on turning the Star Wars: Clone Wars TV series into a feature length film:

"I have the advantage of not having to have a business plan about movies..."I have the advantage of being able to come up with an idea and say 'this is a good idea' and 'gosh this turned out so great, why don't we move it over here and do this'....it's kind of ad-hoc movie-making.

"We started working on the [TV]series and we developed all this new technology, new techniques, this different look to everything and I saw it.....and I said 'wow this is good enough to be a feature film. Why don't we make a feature film?'".

Uhhhhh...because of Star Wars, Episode I. Star Wars, Episode II. A little pile of trash called Star Wars, Episode III. And, finally, because of Jar Jar Binks. Finally proof that being in charge does not equate with intelligence.