watch it: “Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean”
From TED Talks. Horrifyingly, this predates the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico:
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There’s a horrifying train wreck quality to documentarian Chris Smith’s feature-length interview with Michael Ruppert, former LAPD detective, investigative reporter, CIA whistleblower.
watch it: “BP Spills Coffee”
In case you haven’t already seen this: From the Upright Citizens Brigade. Funny how it seems that only our comedians are upright citizens, and those they satirize can’t even be shamed into being the same.
why Peter Jackson should direct ‘The Hobbit’; ‘Showgirls 2’ trailer is terrible; lost Charlie Chaplin film; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
watch it: “The BP Oil Spill Re-Enacted By Cats in 1 Minute”
Friday cute that’s not really cute? It’s like the videomaker is using the cute to make a not-cute point, or something. Oh, my head is spinning…
question of the day: Have we finally entered the post-satire world?
I woke up this morning to the news that BP has requested that the hilarilous Twitter feed for “BP Public Relations” label itself a parody. It seemed, to my eyes, to be so obviously a parody that no one could mistake it for the real thing, but BP felt otherwise. Via MediaBistro: Twitter VP communications … more…
watch it: the 6/5/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Is this it? It the Gulf Coast dead, not just environmentally but economically? No amount of money could ever fix that, but why don’t we just dissolve BP and spread its money around to the areas and the people affected? If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court recently said they are, and if the … more…
question of the weekend: What worries you most about the BP oil spill?
Sure, it’s a nightmare that keeps getting worse. It has ruined, perhaps irreversibly, environments that cannot be replaced. It has revealed the extent of how transnational corporations rule us: after arranging for legislation that practically guaranteed such a disaster was inevitable, BP is now in charge of the situation, down to dictating orders to the … more…
