The guy doing the report sounds like Zapp Brannigan, and I gotta say, that 2 year old looks pretty adept with that spliff. I wonder how long "mommy" had been teaching her for.

I. LOVE. CUBE.

Aaah man, I spotted this about 3 months ago, but I thought it was totally too WTF to sift. Guess that'll teach me a lesson.

Turns out it's her interpretation of an Icelandic poem. Here is the english translation.

Bjork - Vigil

My farm
my farm and yours
sleeps happily at peace
falls snow
silent at dusk on earth
my grass
my grass and yours
keeps the earth til spring

Nesting spring
hid at the hill's root
awake as are we
faith in life
quiet cold spring
eye of the depths
into the firmament
staring still in the night

Far away
wakes the great world
mad with grim enchantment
disquieted
fearful of night and day
your eyes
fearless and serene
smile bright at me

My hope
your blest smile
rouses verse from sleep
the earths rests
silent in arms of snow
lily white
closes her blue eyes
my little girl

I was convinced that Snoop Doggs lightsaber was going to be purple with a gold plated, jewel encrusted handle. I guess you want to be low key in Mos Eisley though.

Helen is awesome sometimes. If only more on the White House Press Corp were like her.

Glenn is a fantastic commentator on political issues. He really handles these interview scenarios well too. Here is his latest Salon column on the flotilla issue.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/03/israel/index.html

And shame on Spitzer. Lecturing on "divergent" views on morality . . . like when investigators discovered his $80 000 prostitute binge and the press proceeded to crucify everything he stood for because of it, leading to his resignation. I and many others defended him because of his strong moral stance on key issues, like his willingness to tackle white collar crime. You would think he would have learned a deeply personal lesson on the harm of promoting bogus moral viewpoints, but I guess not.

This woman is terrible. If you are sitting down to interview one of the world most esteemed political activists you better bring your A game.

I've seen loads of different studies on prayer with a myriad of outcomes which I think gives even more support to the fact that it really doesn't have any consistent, let alone significant, real world effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer

I usually love TED, but you can't have a substantial conversation about aid and its efficacy or lack thereof if you aren't willing to engage in serious and critical political discourse. Unfortunately TED has always been too politically correct for its own good, but when you look at their trailing list of corporate sponsors how can you be surprised.

Hmmm, lentils, bed nets, immunization . . . what about the context that all these aid measures take place in? Africa is not some generic entity to be pitied. As an 'African' a South African more specifically, I get seriously annoyed by the disingenuous way in which 'African' issues are constantly portrayed and inevitably lugged together. Just trying to get a basic inkling on the poverty and aid issues underpinned by the social, economic and political fabric that exists in South Africa alone would take an incredible amount of time and is VERY specific.

Just learning about and trying to understand my own country has been consuming enough and truthfully I only have a basic handle on a few others like Cote D'ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Botswana and Nigeria. All have an incredibly diverse and complex set of problems and they will never be addressed by grouping them together as if inflicted with some kind of 'generalised poverty disorder' that you can throw a pill at.

Pointing to the success of small scale village based social programs as some kind of science based platform for understanding and eradicating poverty in Africa is, in my opinion, totally delusional. It wreaks of the ahistorical imperial anthropology of old.

If you are going to generalise and frame 'Africa's' problems, you have to have the courage to point fingers at some of the MANY corporations, banks, institutions and nations that so readily contribute towards the vast pools of misery found throughout this beautiful continent. Poverty is a complex bi-product of Africa's colonial history and the consequent exploitation and manipulation that has dogged the continent to this day. As long as the majority of the wealth of its nations is being siphoned off into foreign bank accounts there will be no solutions bearing any lasting impact.

A more accurate video title would be: 'How To Build A Saturated Fat Bomb'

Looks damn tasty though.

*beg*

Oy Vey. These people are totally meshuggah. I've felt their crazy gaze before, me being a 'self-hating jew' and all that jazz. Solidarity Max. They're so far beyond reason . . . it's shameful and utterly bizarre.

Ebert doesn't play games. It's painfully obvious by reading his response that he has never touched a controller, let alone played any of the games he dismisses. This is the same pattern repeating, the old dismissing the new. Oh joy, another naive and arrogant diatribe. *yawn*

Adrian! Adrian!