Posted: November 6th, 2008 under Internet Video, Politics.
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I’ve been getting hella political on here, which is something I’ve been trying to avoid. Can’t be helped. My boy Nate just dropped another hilarious music video.

Posted: October 17th, 2008 under Comedy, Internet Video, Politics, music video.
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Posted: October 17th, 2008 under Comedy, Internet Video, Politics.
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Posted: September 7th, 2008 under Miscellaneous, Politics.
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I’m watching gustav on this website. And I’m reading about it’s strange potentiality in the politics here:

Now then — how could Gustav help the Republicans? Let me run briefly through four or five ways:

1. Allows McCain to Appear Magnanimous. By potentially delaying or canceling his “date” at the GOP convention, McCain appears as though he is giving something up to tend to the Gulf Coast. Sympathetic and neutral-to-sympathetic media outlets may view this as underscoring McCain’s “America First” theme.

and here:

“As long as we properly handle the Gustavication of the convention, it may be a positive,” said one GOP operative.

Posted: August 31st, 2008 under Miscellaneous, Politics.
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The Consumerist has a piece about an indie filmmaker who discovered that Viacom was fraudulently claiming ownership of clips of her movie that she posted on YouTube. This is bonkers as it gives Viacom access to user information related to the content in question even though they have nothing to do with it, thereby totally validating fears people had about Viacom getting access to user information at all.

I have a friend who has been working for Viacom in their effort to identify which content is theirs on YouTube. Essentially, they have people on the payroll whose job it is to surf YouTube all day and log clips that are owned by Viacom. See where the potential for error comes into play? This kind of thing is basically a foregone conclusion.

Meanwhile, Lion’s Gate, unlike Viacom, is clearly not run by morons.

Posted: July 22nd, 2008 under Film and Video, Politics.
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I’ve tried to keep the politics off my blog here, but this is the most haunting clip of video I’ve ever laid eyes on, so I couldn’t avoid posting it. (ill doc)

Posted: May 8th, 2008 under Comedy, Internet Video, Politics.
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Ever been mushing an idea around in your head for a while without figuring out what its ultimate form is going to be, and then someone comes along and spells it out and you’re like, “oh this is clearly what I was trying to articulate.” I’m super jealous of those people. I want to be those people.

Posted: March 17th, 2008 under Internet Video, Politics.
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How awesome was that guy?

Posted: January 21st, 2008 under Internet Video, Politics.
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I’ve been feeling massively apathetic about politics, basically since 2004, but more profoundly in the last year or so. The situation has seemed simultaneously so comical and dire that I haven’t had the stomach for it. I look at some of these front runner presidential candidates from the two parties and I can’t imagine how they’ve gotten any kind of enthusiastic support from anyone.

RU Sirius has lit what I think might be a beacon of light in the gloomy wilderness of national politics. He published two documents this week entitled The QuestionAuthority Proposal and The Open Source Party Proposal. They have me sort of excited, because for the first time in a long time I’m thinking about politics as practical and tangible, rather than the televised dog-and-pony vision of politics that we get from Washington, DC.

Posted: November 28th, 2007 under Politics.
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