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“Are you Islamabad?”: A lighthearted look at stereotypes

Vox pops from Arab- and Iranian-Americans, from comedian Dean Obeidallah, Negin Farsad and friends (3.38).

29 July, 2008 · 4 Comments

The Most Important Job In The World

Some wholesome fun and a bit more of the lighter stuff. Kudos to the comic-mom and thanks to Kilroy for forwarding the video clip:

31 October, 2007 · 3 Comments

Gobble, Gobble: Bush comedy from Frank Caliendo

Frank Caliendo does superb impersonations of both Dubya and Clinton. This hilarious routine has been around for a year or so but I’ve only just come across it thanks to … Continue reading

27 October, 2007 · 5 Comments

Dissent lives in APECville: Cheeky protesters, Children, the Chaser and Osama Bin Laden

Updated: 2 additional videos from The Chaser and Bums Not Bombs – see also Green Left Weekly for a collection of videos; for less than sanguine write-ups about police powers … Continue reading

7 September, 2007 · 7 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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