Ken @ 3 Look at his eyes when Boyle hits those first notes: it's the pose of a man who knows he's hearing the Real Thing, and also realises that he's going to have to pay for, so it's best if he doesn't give everything away to the contestant.
Actually thats not likely - typically the contestants all have contractual obligations to the producers of the show (and he's probably one of them).
I think its the pose of a man who knows that he's going to look like a complete tool when the show airs for his condescending attitude in the initial interview.
His entire schtick is to be brutally honest with the many talentless people who appear on his shows. Typically he gets away with it by being both entertaining and, you know, correct. Here he got caught making the mistake of anticipating failure based on the woman's age and appearance and ended up with egg on his face. Which is part of what makes watching that clip so pleasurable.
Its a little bit like watching the video of Colbert skewering the National Press Club a couple of years ago - it wasn't just that he was so funny, it was knowing that he was doing it at the expense of his audience, and that they weren't enjoying it at all.
Really Patrick, its just insulting to his evil genius to be comparing Sauron to that lunkhead ...
I'm thinking a picture of the fall of the stay puft marshmallow man from ghostbusters would be a more appropriate visual ...
Speaking of salon headlines - the one that called Obama uppity' (back in the primaries before i even supported him) was the reason i cancelled my subscription. I still read Glenzilla via google reader (and occasionaly king kaufman during basketball season), but I hardly visit there site anymore.
ok, snopes mostly debunks that story. sigh ...
http://www.snopes.com/science/atombomb.asp
they had a harder time explaining why a magazine explosion was visible to a blind girl in a passing train.
That made me smile. And say what you will about the pretentious qualities of early yes (or the crappy sell out qualities of their later work), those guys could frakking play, which is what makes those kids so impressive.
Huckabee is one scary dude - even by the standards of the modern Republican party. Don't let the smiling face fool you ..
Don't forget the ever popular red stapler: http://www.techcomedy.com/www.redswinglinestapler.com/history.php
Ok then, you're off to target practice, but its the world thats addicted to coercion at gunpoint? Right ...
Frankly, I don't read boingboing much anymore - and a lot of that is due to tedium with reading Xeni's incessent 'all-about-Xeni' posting. If she's broken that habit, more power to her.
I have even less patience with the high-tech brand of libertarianism the internet seems to enable. BoingBoing isn't a particularly virulent example of it, but its enough to be irksome...
Daniel Boone strikes me as being just plain physcotic. The purpose of government is to maintain a monopoly on force. Whatever institutions or organizations you care to believe in, they are all ultimately backed by force, or subject to whatever organizations are willing to employ it.
How is it immoral to choose a method of government to use force to protect ethical people from the unethical people who have no qualms about using force? Or is the only moral response to threat of force to lay down and die?
Xeni Jardin is a self-promoting suckup. In 10yrs she'll be the next Ann Coulter if someone doesn't stage an intervention. And for libertarians (or "glib"ertarians as atrios calls them), they've all been exposed by the bush admin as closet fascists. A libertarian who doesn't believe in habeas corpus doesn't understand the meaning of the word ...
"Improvised Explosive Opportunity" was my personal favorite. And the deadpan delivery was perfect.
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