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STEPHEN COLBERT & AMY SEDARIS TUMBLING

Amy Sedaris was on the Colbert Report pimping her new movie Strangers With Candy, co-written and co-starring Stephen Colbert, when they broke out in a hilarious "tumbling" skit.

LAPD IN ACTION

This video shows a lot of LAPD officers arresting a couple of young adults at gun point the night of June 30th, 2006.  While nothing extraordinary occurs in the clip, it does give some perspective on the dangers of police life.  I would add that, but for shining their lights on us looky-loos, the police appeared so nice that I half expected them to serve up a cup of tea to the arrestees. 

THE O'REILLY FACTOR CROWD

         

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Take a look at who gets their information from the O'Reilly Factor online.  FYI, O'Reilly's show on Fox News which is as mean spirited as any on t.v. pales in comparison to the vitriol unleashed by O'Reilly on the radio which, in turn, pales in comparison to the hate put forth on O'Reilly's website.  This hierarchy of hate holds true for most conservative pundits with multiple media outlets so as not to offend the mainstream folk who are more likely to catch them on t.v. while still provoking the rabid base who flock to their websites.   

This clip is edited from Spotlight: The Letter - An American Town and “The Somali Invasion” currently playing on LinkTv.  We highly recommend this documentary by Ziad H. Hamzeh which explores the Somali Invasion of Lewiston, Maine and the subsequent racial backlash by white power groups.

WHERE THE TRUTH LIES - GLOBAL WARMING & MORE

Stanford professor and Internet God Lawrence Lessig writes about the new Al Gore movie An Inconvenient Truth in July's Wired:

About halfway through, Gore cites two studies to explain why so many people remain so skeptical about global warming. The first looked at a random sample of almost 1,000 abstracts on climate change in peer-reviewed scientific journals from 1993 to 2003 and found that exactly zero doubted “that we’re causing global warming.” The second surveyed a random sample of more than 600 articles about global warming in popular media between 1988 and 2002 and discovered that 53 percent questioned “that we’re causing global warming.”

Good journalism likes two sides to every story. Lazy journalism fails to distinguish between objective sources and interested parties – and this issue has interested parties aplenty, from ­industry-funded think tanks to hired PR firms, feeding the press the disinformation it needs to make the story sound balanced. This is the media’s own inconvenient truth – that the institution charged with reporting the facts is so easily manipulated by those whose “salary depends upon [our] not understanding” the facts (to reuse Gore’s favorite Upton Sinclair quote). The result is the perfect storm for obfuscation. You can’t buy the story outright, but you can twist it enough that the truth is no longer recognizable.

In addition to global warming, please apply the above paragraph to every issue.