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The Wire creator David Simon on "America as a Horror Show"

Trancecoach says...

It wasn't me who first pointed out Simon as a hypocritical "liberal bully."

"Here’s why I assert Simon is a bully. His own words reveal him to be a petty, nasty, mean-spirited guy. “…anything I've ever accomplished as a writer, as somebody doing TV, anything I've ever done in life, down to, like, cleaning up my room, has been accomplished because I was going to show people that they were [bleeped] up, wrong, and that I was the [bleeping] center of the universe and the sooner they got hip to that, the happier they would all be.""

Statist narcissism.

There's as much as you'd like on this. How about...?

"David Simon, a multi-millionaire writer for Time-Warner, one of the largest corporations in the world and a cultural leader, jetted across the globe to speak in front an audience of people with both the financial means and free time about the horrors of “unchecked” capitalism and the tragic loss of the social compact."

"It is rich that a leading light of Hollywood, that of unpaid interns, unmatched inequality of pay, tax-avoidance schemes, exploitation of public subsidies, industry scheming, etc., would criticize a “broken social compact.”"

"Meanwhile, in the real world of unchecked, no-social-compact capitalism, the WSJ is reporting that the “Burger Wars” are expanding to Africa. The heartless capitalist system is stepping in where communism, socialism and other authoritarian systems have failed, bringing with it the digging of new wells, food production systems, jobs, etc. All that awful stuff that comfortable capitalists take for granted."

EDIT: To be clear, I have no specific interest in advocating for Koch, or Simon, or whomever, or in prosecuting them or @radx or anyone else. But I do think this kind of pernicious thinking/bullying can and does spread and causes much harm, even to those engaging in the thinking/bullying, it distorts them in an undesirable way, so I point it out.

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Godzilla - Official Teaser Trailer

Godzilla - Official Teaser Trailer

Godzilla - Official Teaser Trailer

South Park On Cable Companies

Marilyn Manson goes make-up free in Eastbound and Down cameo

Spectacular Upward Lightning in Rapid City, South Dakota

oritteropo says...

It's explained in a link from the yt vid, which I overlooked when posting (sorry!):

http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2012/10/05/rare-upward-lightning-videos/

In 99% of cases the current flows the other way, from the clouds to the ground. This vid is related to a study by atmospheric scientist Tom Warner of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. He says companies running wind turbines are particularly interested in why 1% of lightning strikes go upwards, wanting to know what conditions favour it and how the effects can be mitigated. There is a link to the paper in the blog article linked above.

lucky760 said:

A high-speed camera captures a rare upward lightning in Rapid City, South Dakota.

But all land-air lightning travels upward, no?

F-111 Belly Landing

Rachel Maddow Hammers Home Why Fox News Is Bulls#@!

Conan visits the Warner Brothers animation building - Part 2

siftbot says...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'conan, late night, talk show, warner, brothers, animation' to 'conan, late night, talk show, warner, brothers, animation, pierre bernard, dc' - edited by xxovercastxx

Conan Catches a Predator

Conan Catches a Predator

Conan Catches a Predator

Conan Catches a Predator



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