He so stole that song from that kangaroo.

In the director's cut a gunshot causes the baby's brains to splatter on the camera, and he rips his face off revealing Michael Palin...

That's really clever.

I used to love that show, but SciFi sabotaged it when they killed Daniel, changed the format to X-Files, unkilled Daniel, changed the format to Star Trek, killed the doctor, and gave Teal'c a really bad hairdo. Not necessarily in that order.

That's the most annoying video I've seen today.

I bet his friends are really going to straw it to him over this.

The first time through it's just stupid, but if you rewatch it, it's hysterical. It's like an Old School SNL skit. I kept waiting for the land shark to knock on her door.

I was kinda hoping he was going fall asleep, lean forward, and drive the pen up a nostril and into his brain.

joedirt: I either expressed myself poorly, or I'm not understanding what you said, because we're really not that far apart. You generally have a right to tape police officers in public places, but AFAIK, in Florida you don't have a *RIGHT* to make audio recordings ("intercept oral communications") of police officers taking statements or having private conversations if they refuse consent. Further, information in police reports is not necessarily public, and there are laws regarding its disclosure. In other words: Arguably you have a right to tape from 20 feet away, arguably you DON'T have a *RIGHT* to tape from 1 foot away. If you have caselaw that indicates otherwise, I'll be happy to take a look.

Both the links you gave deal with entirely different situations, and the authorites in those situations behaved reprehensibly.

As far as "fuck" being a constitutionally protected word, Florida has a wonderfully overbroad nuisance statute, and some interesting statutes regarding what constitutes lawful assembly and lawful political protest. When dovetailed together with the even stricter local laws (Pinellas County?), it gets to be a pretty confusing mess. No doubt a lot of the laws would be deemed unconstitutional, but cops have to enforce the law they're given at the time and not interpret it. If the state or local legislature passes a law saying you can't hold a sign saying "Fuck" in public, it's not fair to say the cops are abusing their power when they enforce it.

I'm pretty sure the deputy was right. While you generally have a right to record events that happen publicly, you don't have a right to stick your camera in cop's faces, interfere with police work, and record private conversations. Think about it, how often do you see audio/video of cops questioning someone that wasn't either an embedded reporter or a video supplied by the police? Consider if you or your kid were talking to police, whether you want Geraldo to record everything said and broadcast it on FOX. And you know he would if he could.

You really gotta wonder what kind of mom stands on the street corner while her son holds a sign that says "Fuck Bush". I don't think the next Ghandi or MLK is going to be springing from her loins anytime soon. People like this give protesters bad names, and end up doing more harm than good.

It doesn't appear to me that anyone was actually arrested. There's lots of scary, appalling stuff happening in the country right now, but this doesn't qualify.

This is the original theatrical teaser/trailer for Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film "The Shining." One of the great all-time trailers, they just don't get any better than this.

I used to love this movie until I turned 30 and realized I'm never going to be able to make Jenny Agutter materialize on my sexavision machine.

That statement about walking to the top of the hill and back to the bottom had me scratching my head. It sounded more like a Super Karate Monkey Death Car translation than someone saying what they wanted to say in a prepared presentation. Maybe I'm missing something, but the only way that makes the slightest sense is if you bought some batteries at the 7-11 while you were at the top of the hill.

Going around in circles in a magnetic field is a kinda/sorta crude explanation of how to generate electricity, but I don't understand why you have to stop every cycle, and you still have to expend energy to make the little logo go around in circles in the first place.

And you gotta admit, "the first roadblock is the world of science" is one of the best lines ever. The late great Douglas Adams must be writing their press copy.

Good to know that Loomis Fargo lets their *cough* employees take unlocked armored trucks with bags of cash in the back to magic shows.

The Bill of Rights is sooooo 20th Century.

This doesn't show much of anything. The first lady seems confused at the question, and the second guy there's an EDIT between the question and the response. They were probably either too polite to correct the guy, weren't paying attention to the name, or became unsure of their own knowledge in the midst of answering a bunch of rapid-fire questions. Of course, Bush is a maroon, but he probably knew the PM because they were making him study his flash cards.

Sorry, this Mercer's way to make Americans look "stupid" is just lame tricks. If you go up to the man on the street and shove a microphone in his face and ask him if the president on the 5 dollar bill should be changed from "Franklin" to "Reagan", he'd probably give a yes or no response because he's mentally focusing on the Reagan part and changing the currency -- even if he knew Franklin was never president, and wasn't on the Fiver. And in the event guy realizes the questioner was wrong, he'd probably be too polite to correct him.

Colbert, OTOH, gives people lots and lots of rope to hang themselves. A smart person will look smart, and a dumb person will make a fool of themselves.

But this video is interesting because it does indeed look like Bush has had a nosejob since those days, or he's been chasing parked cars.