The Daily Show looks at the latest effort by Goldman Sachs to squeeze money out of Americans by using loopholes in the laws, this time involving the moving of aluminum from one warehouse to another and back again. And of course, nothing will come of this because being a major Wall Street bank means never having to be accountable.
Yet more evidence of how the big banks rule our world.
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For some reason, the US public and media seem to have an endless and deep fascination with the parasitic, good-for-nothing, British royal family. There seems to be something about all the pomp and pageantry associated with them that makes them go weak at the knees and completely lose their sense of reason, something that I wrote about in 2009 in a post titled God save us from the Queen on the occasion of the Obamas’ visit to England. [Read more…]
… that the news networks are covering 24/7.
It is a familiar sight to long-time political watchers. The government finds itself caught doing something illegal or unacceptable or lying or pursuing indefensible policies. It then starts using contorted language to avoid acknowledging what is obvious on its face to even a casual observer. At that point, press briefings turn into what looks like comedy sketches as one or two of the more independent-minded reporters try to get the official spokespersons to acknowledge facts and the latter try to avoid doing so by either stretching the meaning of words beyond all reason or stonewalling and repeating the same trite phrase over and over again. [Read more…]
Documentarian Josh Fox has been on a crusade against the practice of hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) that is used to extract natural gas from shale rock, because of the harm it does to the environment and ground water supplies. He has just released Gasland Part II, the sequel to his earlier Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland that I reviewed two years ago. Here’s the trailer. [Read more…]
It is not a good sign for me when a dog is better at human exercises than I am.
Brian Keith Dalton (aka Mr. Deity) gives his answer.
Ari Mandel was an observant Hassidic Jew until the age of 23. Then he became an atheist. Now 31, he decided that since he was no longer going to heaven, the spot that had once been reserved for his soul was now vacant and so he decided to put it up for sale on eBay. [Read more…]
A new animated web series starring the voices of John Hodgman as a crusty senior intelligence operative and Nicole Winters as a junior agent.
(Via Cory Doctorow.)
The Daily Show makes fun of the reactions to the same-sex marriage rulings by the US Supreme Court.
(This clip aired on June 27, 2013. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)