I love how much he taunts Bioware about vehicle sections. I disagree about Bioware == good writing, I mean he did play Dragon Age didn't he? It's more accurate to say Bioware == a good writer or two, and they can only work on one game at a time.

Yeah it's too bad CBS cut his intro for their Youtube channel. It's only missing 30 seconds or so.

First time I've experienced empathy for a mosquito.

We've been trying for years to have a real third party, and now we get this.

According to this article, I think that's a rocket launch video that was released because that's what the meteor would've looked like to witnesses. The slow rate of descent and the white smoke plume aren't characteristic of meteors.

Holy crap there's a 42-minute unedited version

(and not surprisingly, Stewart's best criticisms of Fox News didn't make it to air)

This is Stewart at his almost-best. It's much better to be the calm and collected guy at the table while the other guy sticks his finger in your face, interrupts your points, and raises his voice.

The one big missed opportunity is when O'Reilly says that the "hard news" department of Fox was unbiased. I check Google News for online news articles every day, and Fox News stuff creeps in there, and the author always goes way out of their way to make any Obama-related story seem bad for him. They'll counter-point all of Obama's points in a speech, and they always happen to choose the most unflattering picture for Obama or any democratic politician. They covered the birther movement as if it was news. Here's a quick example headline from the top story on their Political page: "Storm Brews Over Decision to Reveal Abdulmutallab's Cooperation." The only reason they call it a brewing storm is because a single Republican senator made some comments about it being improper to publicly declare that Abdulmutallab is sharing information, and the only reason he's saying that is because it proves the point liberals have been making for years which is that granting habeus corpus rights is as good or better at convincing captured terrorists to share information as torture. The headline should be about how Abdulmutallab is sharing information because his family convinced him to trust the US, which they wouldn't have done if he were in limbo at Gitmo. It's complete vindication of the anti-torture movement in America, and of course Fox can't report on it that way, they want to make it a story about how unscrupulous it was of the Obama administration to share this "sensitive" information.

This is a continuation of the disagreement between Fox News and the White House last year, where Fox News got away with saying that their hard news items have no bias, and it seemed like no one is willing to stand up to that statement, then or now.

>> ^choggie:
KILL YOUR TELEVISIONS!


Will do.

Seems legit to me except:

"If you don't let me out of this driveway I will arrest you ... for kidnapping."

That thumb reminds me of this music video.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
If he was 50% harping on liberals and 50% harping on conservatives then I'd be cool with it.


This is the biggest fallacy floating around today. Can neither party be more wrong than the other? Be scientific about your views, and forget about who stakes claim to what.

>> ^blacklotus90:
Awesome video! One of my favorite bands.The description is slightly off, however, as The American Dollar is usually classified as post-rock/math-rock rather than prog-rock.


I like calling it prog because of the build and climax in most of their songs, but post-rock is also a pretty good label for them.

Tedium's not so bad when you're working with good people, and you get some reasonable variety to your work. If a company puts you on a riveter all day, they're condemning you to some kind of repetitive stress disorder years down the line. A smart factory or jobsite would rotate your tasks during the day to prevent that from happening. At my old job, we'd frequently change our "position" between onloads and offloads of aircraft, and each task even had a lot of variety.

Most people don't do the things they know they should be doing. I guess there are some supermen and women out there that have no trouble fitting in their needed exercise, social contact, and intellectual challenge in every day of their lives (assuming they have the free time). But the majority of society does what their environment leads them to do, as bad as it may be. Using myself as an example, I know exactly how to eat right and how to exercise from the couple years I spent seeing a personal trainer twice a week, but now I'm always doing a poor job of staying in shape. I'm in-between remodeling projects right now and have tons of free time, but precious little of that time is spent being productive or doing something really beneficial.

This is similar to some of the discussions I've had about religion here on VS, because both religion and physical labor jobs offer you what your body is built for in complete packages. Surely a secularist can be part of a supportive social group, spend time quietly reflecting on his life, and be at peace with his environment; and someone with lots of free time could engage in communal activities, get regular physical exercise, and challenge themselves intellectually. It's just that doing all that stuff piecemeal is much more difficult for the average person, and it's more likely they'll play WoW and eat pizza instead. It's easier to get a job swinging a hammer and go to a church once a week to achieve all those same things. I think Eastern philosophies have been aware of this for a long time, because their religious scholars focus on things like maintaining gardens rather than sitting in comfy chairs and reading books.

I was out of work for about a year before I started my remodel project, and I remember telling an unemployed friend of mine how much more I could appreciate my free time when I spent 8 hours that day working. Work and accomplishment is a necessary part of life, and separating out the physical from the mental work is not the same as when the two are united. That's why I'm working on a house remodeling project instead of putting my degree to any use. I decided that if I have to choose between success and money or a fulfilled life, I'll choose the latter.

In reply to this comment by Psychologic:
I can't speak for chilaxe, but for me it's the tedium rather than the physicality I'd like to avoid. I can't see much of a health benefit from filling envelopes or scrubbing septic tanks. One could argue that it "builds character", but so does learning advanced physics or training for a marathon.

There are many jobs that people would rather not do if their livelihoods weren't dependent upon them, and many of those jobs could (or soon will) be performed by robots rather than people. I don't think that situation, in itself, is a bad thing. I'd rather spend my time improving myself both physically and intellectually, but I also have to eat so that means I need my jobs (I have three currently).

I do agree with you on the value of physical work, but if we end up in a world where people can choose their own methods rather than choosing those that pay well then I believe we will benefit from such a world both individually and societally.

Part of loving someone is playing a role sometimes, and changing between roles, and objectifying yourself for your loved one. I don't know if it's a cultural problem as much as a personal maturity problem that some people don't understand that.

>> ^Psychologic:
>> ^Lodurr:
Studies are showing that the healthiest and longest-lived people in the world do some daily manual labor their whole life. There's nothing tedious about accomplishing something with your own sweat and two hands: in fact there's nothing more rewarding.
Physical activity is certainly a very healthy thing.
Personally though, I'd rather go hiking than bolt wheels to car frames every day.


I didn't think much of physical labor either until I worked at the local airport, coincidentally with a lot of Samoans. The best kind of work is something that uses all your faculties--where you need to think and process what you're working with, where you communicate and coordinate with others constantly, and where your body is always moving and being challenged incrementally. I'd still be on the ramp today if I could live off that wage and support my family.

There's a real sense of accomplishment too with manual labor, that you did something real that others will see and appreciate. Cannery workers might think about people opening and eating their well-packed tuna cans. I used to think about every plane I worked on as it took off, how I put up the container locks, closed the cargo doors, then pushed it back from the gate, and now it's flying.