Obama clarifies his position on Turkey.

Rory Bremner does excellent sung epitaphs of Prime Ministers.

Yeah that title could've been a bit more catchy but its true. Heres Gordon Brown's Swansong:



and going a good way into the past Tony Blair's:



(some knowledge of British Politics required for you to fully understand these)

Giant Bomb's finest hour.

You might not like computer games, you might not like Giant Bomb. This is irrelevant, this video is so awesome it wont matter. You have to watch it:

Legality has nothing do with right and wrong.

It is a wise person, a legitimate person, who looks upon the world and only respects that which is worthy of respect. This is such a person.

Russell Brand interview

Russell Brand is generally portrayed as a bawd but if you actually listen to what he has to say the fact he is a former drug and sex addict isn't relevant and in this interview he brings up the point that narratives about himself and everything else cloud the meaning at the heart of issues. He is a lot of other things but he is also someone who overcame considerable hardship and unpleasantness as a child to get to where he is, perhaps people should bear that in mind more than they do. I recommend you watch it. One odd thing I consistently notice is that he uses big words it sounds like he is using them for their own sake but they are always correct to the conversation and convey his meaning, I wonder if it is simply the Essex accent, have I been trained to assume certain accents make you thick?

As a reward for watching the interview (which to be honest was pretty rewarding in itself) here is Brand utterly destroying Murdoch's The Sun at a charity gala event for Amnesty International:

The onion is supposed to be satire damnit

A better class of News.

thanks jonny

Time, now in an adult format

(yes I know this is old)

What idiots thought about Election

John Dolan, acknowledged by people who know a lot better than me to be perhaps the greatest writer of his generation, lets us enjoy a little schadenfreud thanks to Amazon user reviews. He also liked The Big Lewbowski so take that haters.

Liveblogging can be good.

Its quite simple really, just as you're happy to listen to a friend's humorous anecdotes about a bad holiday it rapidly becomes wearing to listen to the boastful exuberance of someone regaling you with what a wonderful time they had, the only good liveblog is a critical liveblog. Someone discussing how great it is as a product reveal or whatever? Fuck them it just makes you jealous you're not there. Nor is it pleasant to read someone being relentlessly positive about something mediocre, as is typified by the work of Jason Chen at Gizmodo but happily such people are eventually dealt with.

No the best liveblogs are essentially MST3K crossed with 24, Cynicism in real time. In that manner I bring you a guardian liveblog whose author's powers of hatred were strengthened by the need to begin it at 6am. He was watching ITV's (Britain's worst terrestrial channel) brand new morning show which is the standard format less plausible version of ONN's today now! Read about it here.

A product of the Propaganda model vs Chomsky.

If you don't know what COINTELPRO is/was please read up on it here. Its important for smugness later.

Andrew Marr studiously claims to be neutral but personal observations he is at the very least an ardent supporter of the status quo. However I can put forward a fairly damning piece of evidence, he was Tony Blair's chosen sole TV interview, which aired last wednesday, for the launch of his autobiography. If you're allowed to interview people that powerful you sure as hell wont say anything the elite consider controversial.

Anyway back in 1996 he interviewed Chomsky about the Propaganda model, its especially fun for British people to see him squirm uncomfortably but it has a more universal worth, it shows how those who merrily work within the propaganda model react to being confronted with the reality of things.




Chomsky does seem to be competing with Zizek for the most uncomfortable speech patterns of a leftist in public in these videos but I hope you enjoyed them anyway.

Another good Webcomic

Brought to you be Governor Jan Brewer

and those godless commie liberal bleeding heart nazi scum wonder why we need a border fence!

The Onion often cuts very close to the bone but... jeez...

I mean I get the joke but I'm not sure if there even is a message?

Two months supply of Smart Water!

4chan makes a funny

Yeah, this was a good line.

The Onion New Network still owns.

Examines the short term short attention span blame culture following big incidents. I am pleasantly surprised by just how long they've managed to keep the fake panel shows funny for.

Well... theres something you don't see every day.

A bull somehow managed to end up at a hospital.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is expected to announce efforts to privatise hospital grounds because bull attacks on private hospitals are unheard of.

Take that Amber!

Tony didn't like this video...

...so you bet its going to be linked:



As someone who plays video games too much this is basically like a government anti-drugs advert. Its also hilarious, I like the giant bomb guys a lot.