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Brian Keith Dalton (aka Mr. Deity) gives his answer.
Ari Mandel was an observant Hassidic Jew until the age of 23. Then he became an atheist. Now 31, he decided that since he was no longer going to heaven, the spot that had once been reserved for his soul was now vacant and so he decided to put it up for sale on eBay. [Read more…]
A new animated web series starring the voices of John Hodgman as a crusty senior intelligence operative and Nicole Winters as a junior agent.
(Via Cory Doctorow.)
The Daily Show makes fun of the reactions to the same-sex marriage rulings by the US Supreme Court.
(This clip aired on June 27, 2013. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
(Thanks to reader smhll)
Tom Goldstein, who runs the excellent SCOTUSblog which is the site to go to for reliable information on Supreme Court decisions, talks with Jon Oliver on The Daily Show about the same-sex marriage and the Voting Rights Act decisions. [Read more…]
The last couple of years have been quite turbulent in terms of public agitation and protests. Apart from the uprisings of the Arab Spring, more recently we have had the massive protests in Turkey over plans to develop a public park that have escalated into larger protests against the governments attempts to chip away at that country’s secular framework. Then we have the huge protests in Brazil that started in opposition to hikes in the cost of public transit but have also escalated into criticisms of corruption and of government policies that seem to emphasize spending on showy projects like hosting the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016 while money is needed for basic social services and infrastructure. [Read more…]
The Daily Show had a segment dealing with the events in the Texas legislature on the bill that would severely restrict the access to abortion services for women in that state. [Read more…]
The Daily Show takes a close look at the banking sector in the US where, unlike in many countries, the banks seem to be more like crime syndicates than staid financial institutions.
In the first clip, the show discusses yet another revelation about how the banks and ratings agencies colluded to play fast and loose with other people’s money while they got rich, knowing that what they were doing was corrupt and likely to cause a collapse. [Read more…]
(This clip aired on June 24, 2013. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)