I wasn't going to use this one because it's more a song/sketch that happens to have Bert in it than anything else, but today I'm in a subversive mood, so here goes:

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Please stop telling me that I'm being spied on. I KNOW that I'm being spied on. I'm being spied on by NSA and apparently it is completely legal for them to do so. Thanks again for nothing, ex-President W ( Read more... )

Apparently reporting unscrupulous and noncompliant telemarketers isn't "necessary to protect life and property." Good to know ( Read more... )

RANDOM GUY IN GROCERY STORE: The government sucks ( Read more... )

Check out the headline on the BREAKING NEWS ticker on CNN.com today:


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Apparently, George W. Bush thinks that Edward Snowden caused harm to America by blowing the whistle on the PRISM program--which, it is important to remember, was implemented under Bush's administration. So in other words, it doesn't hurt the American people to have their own government spy on them; what hurts them is the KNOWLEDGE that the ( Read more... )

Look ... am I upset about recent revelations about NSA surveillance of American citizens? Yes, very much so. Am I disappointed in President Obama for not putting a stop to it, and for even defending it? AbsolutelyBut let's place the blame for this squarely where it belongs. This has been going on for seven years, well before President Obama ( Read more... )

It is sometimes dismaying to me and sometimes amusing to me to think about how much significance we as a culture have invested in the colors pink and blueFor example, I was reading a little bit yesterday about the speculation about the sex of Kate Middleton's baby. Apparently she was seen pushing a blue stoller in a store, and the blogosphere was ( Read more... )

You know, I would like to tell Justin Bieber that not everything in the world is about him. But I think that the very act of doing so would undermine my thesis.

To clarify, I'm not angry. Just flabbergasted that anyone could be THAT self-absorbed.

You may wonder why, 30+ years after the fact, I still get so sensitive about the time on Sesame Street when everybody thought that Snuffy was Big Bird's imaginary friend. It's because the adults on Sesame Street were always so mean to Big Bird about it. They could have played along. They could have humored him. They could have even taken him to ( Read more... )