"You should have thought about that before you insulted my pizza."

Ok, that was kind of funny.

Which reminds me: I always wondered about those REAL Domino's ads they ran - which also talked about how people didn't like their pizza, and how the company was listening and changing the recipe. I mean, who signed off on that ad campaign? Of course their food sucks. It's crap fast food. Can you imagine Burger Kind running an ad like that? Same thing, pretty much...

Yes, cool, very cool indeed...

But somehow, I could see this becoming a popular "let's make fun of the early 21st century!" meme in about 15 years or so.

Gosh I just don't care about what he did. It doesn't bother me. Is that strange, or do others feel the same?

He was so sharp on the floor sometimes, debating issues others would roll over on. I can't help but imagine - in some alternate universe - how Weiner might have handled this totally differently. For example, instead of the denials and flip-flopping, Weiner could have said from the very beginning: "This is none of your damned business.... I can't believe your asking this." (Which is pretty much what George Bush Sr. said in the '90s when confronted by press about a likely affair.)

Every one of the charges could be answered with that response. It really is none of our business. Even if he took a cell phone shot of his d-ck in the goddamn oval office. Who cares? Because it's public property? I say it again - WHO CARES? It's just sex. Why get hung up on any of it (unless you're his wife)? There's no indication it was affecting his job.

"None of your damned business." If he'd said that (and meant it!), sure, his career would probably still have tanked. But, in some circles at least, he'd be a bit of a folk hero.

I can only conclude Weiner must be dealing with some powerful sexual guilt issues to lose all his nerve when confronted with his own behavior. The irony, of course, is - it's our own culture's guilt and discomfort with sex that drove this to become such a public issue for him in the first place.

Love how that "student" is like, 35 years old!

Whoa... at 5:13, he's the spitting image of Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters)!

And after all that set-up, we get...

Miss Angie Dickinson!

Hot stuff. After all these years, all this time... still misunderstood, mostly ignored, and under-appreciated.

As this video strongly implies, Carl Sagan was a recreational marijuana user. From Wikipedia:

Sagan was a user and advocate of marijuana. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X", he contributed an essay about smoking cannabis to the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered.[47][48] The essay explained that marijuana use had helped to inspire some of Sagan's works and enhance sensual and intellectual experiences. After Sagan's death, his friend Lester Grinspoon disclosed this information to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson. The publishing of the biography, Carl Sagan: A Life, in 1999 brought media attention to this aspect of Sagan's life.

Also, I didn't notice anything "stagey" or otherwise about the video. I think that's just how she speaks...

Well, it's a rant for sure... but one that frankly echoes the fear so many of us feel today. At least someone's saying it. And I've gotten so used to my own daily institutionalized fear in the past decade. It's nice to hear someone actually shaken enough not to disassociate the whole feeling (yet again) and let themselves boil over.

Solutions? Well Olbermann doesn't propose anything (he asks us to instead) because who the f-ck knows what to do? Not him. Not anyone.

The elephant standing in the china shop is this: those very same corporations are keeping us very, very 'happy.' In addition to the loss of rights/power/voice that Olber bemoans, he neglects to mention that the future will also be filled with amazingly addictive computer gizmos (probably eventually wired into your cortex); video entertainment that will make the holodeck seem like a prediction; and enough flashy distractions and infotainment (soon to be so pervasive in modern life, it will make the early 2000's seem quaint) to completely numb us to the frog getting boiled in the soup pan.

Truth is, if all of us were bored enough, we would never have let this happen.

Trout (also ranting)

Rasch, that's not Eric Clapton... it's Jeff Beck. There's no Clapton in this video at all.

Upvote anyway... it's worth noting that this is actually live. Lots of these old clips are lipsync performances; this one is wonderfully ragged and real.