With Captain America now deceased, who gets his shield? Stephen Colbert!
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Colbert is Colbert
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Some of the pass-offs from Jon Stewart to Stephen Colbert are real gems, even when they manage to flub it. This one from a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t find on Comedy Central, so I’ll resort to posting it myself. Colbert provides some bedtime reading from Ayn (A is A) Rand.
I went through an Ayn Rand period in college, when I read both “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged”. Like the science-fiction writings of L. Ron Hubbard, I genuinely enjoyed Ayn Rand’s novels. If nothing else, they’re solid romantic soap operas. But as I did with Hubbard’s Dianetics, I decided Rand’s Objectivism wasn’t for me.
Iraqi Insurgent Protests Subtitles
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My father’s cousin Lawrie pointed out this in-the-field interview from 2004, with Iraqi insurgents that were loyal to Saddam Hussein. This video is everywhere, yet I haven’t been able to determine who produced it.
Captain Colbert America
Comic book fan Stephen Colbert comments on Marvel Comics killing off, for now, Captain America.
News Bullets
What a week, seeing so much truth and reality in the news.
- Libby guilty in CIA leak case
- No military solution to Iraq, warns new US commander
- Fired US Prosecutors Felt Threatened by Hill Republicans
- Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Walter Reed
- FBI admits abuse of Patriot Act
- Gingrich cheated on wife while House was impeaching Clinton over affair with Monica Lewinsky
Bank Of America Bad Ad
Click the thumbnail pictures to check out this fancy ad in last week’s Newsweek. Honorable son Eric was the first to spot this unintentionally powerful print media slip-up.
The ad has a cardboard cover with some cut-outs. The picture on the left shows the ad with the cover opened. But look what appears on the other side through the cut-outs when the page is turned.