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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Mental Floss: What is dirt made of?

The “Duke” of Louisiana:

Thom: Who should be drug tested?

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Republicans have moved to crazytown on immigration reform.

White House: West Wing Week.

Obama messes up wedding…but helps makes it memorable.

“President” Michele Bachmann delivers on $2/gal gasoline (via Crooks and Liars).

It’s Back, Baby:

Thom with some Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

Al Sharpton: Six years and running…Obama’s greatest accomplishments.

Michael Brooks: Freedomworks hilariously attacks net neutrality.

Mental Floss: 21 things that turned 21 in 2014.

Reflections and Resolutions:

Hylp: A app for ladies.

John Green: Racism in the U.S. by the numbers:

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about exercise.

Sam Seder: Republican admits G.O.P. Benghazi report is “Full of crap.”.

David Pakman: 20 states raise minimum wage in 2015.

Young Turks: West Virginia finally gets some justice, Don Blankenship is indicted.

Grimm Reaper:

Thom and Pap: How the Kochtopus is reaching for our criminal justice system.

Vsauce: Reduplications and other language curiousities.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    Interesting how the previous Rep from Staten Island is considering running for Grimm’ s seat, despite his own scandal.

  2. 2

    Wrong link on Pat Robertson 2014 predictions. It links to Reagan/Obama popularity rating. Please fix. I need to see what the crazy man was thinking. Thanks

  5. 5

    The richest man of the country that can do no wrong did obvious wrong:

    Steinmetz, growing impatient, reiterated that he did not want to speculate about Cilins. He did want to talk, however, about Condé’s responsibility for the deaths of protesters in Guinea. “The guy has blood on his hands,” Steinmetz said.

    “Captain Dadis had blood on his hands, too,” I observed. “And you invited him to your daughter’s wedding.”

    Steinmetz stared at me for a second, then said, “I’m not going to argue or go into depth about the politics of Guinea.”

    http://www.newyorker.com/magaz.....ed-secrets

    Wow. What a story! Now this Steinmetz character has really circled the wagons. Read about it at The Intercept.

    https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/02/louis-freehs-latest-investigation-billionaire-businessman-accused-bribing-african-government/

  9. 9

    Meanwhile, (u)SP sustains its political vibrancy with a new rant by Nicholas Kerr against Seattle’s plastic bag ban. In other words, out of all the things that happened in the world between Dec. 6 (the previous posting) and Dec. 30 (the latest posting), the only subject (u)SP writers could think of to write about was plastic bags. Those people must be living under rocks or something.

  10. 10

    @7 you may be right, but you didn’t seem to defend him when he was getting all the blame for the high price of gas. Nor are you commenting about the nut bag taking credit for it.

    You and you Ilk are scum. You should be drowning below the surface of water, but instead you sit on top.

  12. 12

    “the nut bag taking credit for it”

    You mean like this nutbag?

    “Republicans have been successful and the economy has been improving with two things: gridlock and opposing Obama. The economy has been getting better!”

    Laura Ingraham, Fox News

    “The price of gasoline has nothing to do with Obama.”

    True, according to wingnut talking head Laura Ingraham. Rather, it is a Republican party which does nothing but indulge in Obama-hate which deserves credit for the lower gas prices and an improved economy.

  13. 13

    When hoodies are outlawed, only outlaws will have hoodies. I suppose that makes sense if you’re a wingnut.

  14. 14

    @13 No, you don’t get it, wearing a hoodie makes you an outlaw (and therefore okay to shoot on sight).

  15. 15

    Kudos to those NYPD police officers who respected civilian authority by saluting the mayor. Raspberries to those cops who continued to repudiate civilian authority by turning their backs on him again. The latter should get the Truman Treatment.

  16. 16

    Clearly, the Saudi oil minister is responsible for lower gas prices. We should elect HIM to Congress.

  17. 17

    “Clearly, the Saudi oil minister is responsible for lower gas prices. We should elect HIM to Congress.”

    I think Republicans are still hoping that Putin will throw his hat in the ring. They absolutely love his “rule with an iron fist” style of, er, governance.

  18. 18

    @13 it’s not the people that kill people, it is the hoodies that kill people.

  19. 19

    @17 Putin – the great leader. They even love Putin over the current Pope.

    True oppressors -The GOP – The Grand Ole Problems Party.

  20. 20

    The ideological bi-partisan consensus between glibertarians and klownservatives:

    When gas prices are high and the Democratic Party controls either or both the Congress and the White House, Democrats and their policies are to blame for high gas prices. Period, end of story..

    When gas prices are low, Democrats can NEVER get ANY credit. Period End of story..

  21. 21

    Responsible Gun Owner (TM) Shoots Himself

    Last week, a police chief shot his wife in bed. This weekend, a cop shot himself in an elevator.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/of.....-elevator/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Frankly, I don’t have a death wish, so I wouldn’t want to be married to either of them.

  22. 22

    Why didn’t the cops shoot to kill that crazy woman in Chattanooga, Tennessee? Was it because she was a honkey?

  23. 23

    Why didn’t the cops shoot to kill that crazy woman in Chattanooga, Tennessee? Was it because she was a honkey?

  24. 24

    10

    The pice of gasoline has nothing to do with any politician, monkey boy, Democrat or Republican!

    And remember, as hominem attacks don’t support your arguments.

  25. 25

    @24 – where were your comments when they were blaming Obama for the higher prices?

    Maybe you should let your Republican friends know, you seem to let them go misguided without making any comment. Or if any liberal wants to give Obama credit then you should shut your trap just as if you would when Republicans blame.

    Do you tend to be bias in your political comments?

  26. 26

    “monkey boy” “And remember, as (sic) hominem attacks don’t support your arguments.”

    Too funny.

  27. 27

    i will say this every time the name of Al Sharpton comes up. The man is a fraud and the lowest form of opportunist. I am tired of reposting and reciting the man”s horrible record, so look him up on Wikipedia. To continue to support this man does great violence to the liberal tradition of supporting civil rights for all. The historical oppression of African American men by our police is one of the great social sins of our history and using the fraud Sharpton as a spokesman for this much abused minority compounds the damage. Right now there is a dirth of national black leadership that is recognized by the media so the networks reach out to what is available and that means the reverend (reverend?) Al. I sincerely feel that President Obama can become the African American leader our country needs after his term is done. Sharpton is so odious, and there firing of Olberman crushes any claim MSNBC may have as the television voice of progressive America. If it weren’t for Rachel Maddow i would delete the channel from my dish finder page.

  29. 29

    25,

    No politician, Republican or Democrat, can take credit/blame for anyting to do with gasoline prices. That’s the point. I don’t always criticize Republicans/Democrats when they are dolts because I don’t spend my life on this blog as many of the regulars do.

    26,
    Then you must really enjoy the mis-use of the word “bias” in 25.

  30. 30

    “Then you must really enjoy the mis-use of the word “bias” in 25.”

    No, but I got a laugh out of you calling a commenter “monkey boy”, immediately followed by a whine about ad hominem attacks.

  31. 31

    @24 “The pice of gasoline has nothing to do with any politician, monkey boy, Democrat or Republican!”

    That may be true, but it has never stopped Republican politicians from starting wars to grab other countries’ oil.

  32. 32

    @29 “No politician, Republican or Democrat, can take credit/blame for anyting to do with gasoline prices.”

    They do anyway, and the public plays along with them, so what’s your point? That our public discourse is overflowing with nonsense a gullible public swallows whole? (See, e.g., Benghazi, Ebola, and numerous other manufactured scandals.) Okay, I concede that many politicians (especially Republicans) are liars and airwaves (especially Faux News) are filled with bullshit. So? Where are you going with this?

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