Found these via my Flist on LiveJournal last week and thought to share them with you. First up is an awesome short film (I guess that’s what it would be called) of Djimon Hounsou reading Binyavanga Wainaina excellent essay “How Not to Write About Africa“.
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And now for something completely different. I am aware that Glen Beck is unbalanced and unhinged, but as I don’t watch live TV that much, I only get glimpses and often forget just how insane he seems. Then people put up videos like this and I watch in amazement all over again. At least this one is of Keith Olberman making fun of him:
Glen seems to be painfully unaware of Greek sculpture and art. Also, he seems to think that someone can be a communist and a facist without having a split personality. I mean, seriously, people like this just sort of lump in all groups of people they consider “evil” and then accuse you of being all of them at once. Like, “OMG you are in the Nation of Islam AND the KKK!!!” The ignorance, it is staggering.
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Its not as farfethed as it seems. Mussolini went from Marxism to creating the prototype Fascist regime. Susan Sontag referred to communism as “fascism with a human face.” Ayn Rand framed communism vs fascism as “…two rival gangs fighting over the same territory—that both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state…”
Plus Glen Beck has his purposes, having recently effectively exposed the cluelessly unhinged Van Jones while the Paper of Record conveniently neglected any investigative journalism. But in their defense, it often does take one to know one.
As Mickey Kaus noted this morning, this is the first time that we’ve seen the NYT have to report news that an administration figure was forced to resign before they’ve gotten around to reporting news on the relevant controversy.