Obama is kind of badass, isn’t he?
Indignant Desert Birds
Class Warfare and Video Games
I try not to post videos without any accompanying commentary. But I figure this video speaks for itself.
Ok, fine. Some commentary
The though process must have been: We’re selling vegetarianism. Sex sells. Use sex to sell Vegetarianism. And so this ad is sort of hilarious. :
Sadly, by equating “sex” exclusively with “sexy women”, they sort of devalue men. Also: by using women exclusively as sex objects, they’re demeaning women. Everything is fair game as long as a single animal is protected, right?
Of course, cops and ambulance drivers in the US will do the same thing– when they have lights and sirens flashing. We presume that they’re on their way to an actual emergency. In the case of the police, we also tend to make nervous jokes about them just wanting a doughnut. As far as the Iraqi’s are concerned, that Hummer is on a doughnut run…
I am vaughly reminded of Shooting an Elephant by Orwell. No matter how good a person someone is when they start occupation duty, the job itself turns them into a real asshole.
Just pretend they’re turkeys. Happy Thanksgiving, folks..
Just as a reminder: in 2000, the United States elected a president who would go on to torture people, and do so in the name of the American People. In 2008, I worked to elect a man who promises to end that practice, and close down the factory in which we do so.
Barack, you’re on the hook now. You need to begin shutting this place down before 100 days have passed. Do that and I’ll forgive much. Don’t do that and, well… I don’t like your chances for reelection..
NASA has an interesting article up about why they’re sending a lander to the moon. What they are not answering– what they are not prepared to answer– is why we bother going to the moon at all.
At the same time, there’s this great video about the CERN super collider. Seriously, watch it. The rest of this post will be here when you’re done…
The video tells us what we hope to learn from the Large Hadron Collider, but not why we care about learning it. Why on Earth should we spend billions to learn these things?
What most people don’t know is that CERN brought us the Web. We spent billions to smash atoms and, the scientists– almost incidentally– put together a bit of technology which defines modern human interactions.
We spend billions on research and received trillions in return. Not bad. Not bad at all…