The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

What Kind of Totalitarian A–hole Would Object to ‘Downfall’ YouTube Parodies?

If you guessed “Hitler,” you’re a winner: Tim Cavanaugh at Reason‘s Hit & Run: The thousand-year reich of Downfall parodies has ended in ruins. Constantin Films, the German producer of the 2004 film Der Untergang, has compelled YouTube to start taking down the popular Hitler-rants-about-funny-thing-X clips. . . . The 4.3 million-view original, in which […]

How to Get Re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano

No, I still haven’t succeeded in my seven-month-long crusade to get re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano (she’s got nearly 800,000 followers), but I continue studying her Twitter habits, like a lion watching a gazelle beside a watering hole on the Kalahari plain. And it appears that celebrity sleaze-merchant Perez Hilton has broken the Milano Code. Evidently, one way […]

Somebody Really Ought to Make a ‘Downfall’ Parody Video About This

Except of course, you can’t do that anymore: ‘Hitler Reacts to…’ — that patron saint of YouTube memes — seems to be on its way out. The clips, which dub a scene from the 2004 German-language film ‘Downfall,’ are being rapidly pulled by Constantin Films, which is claiming copyright infringement. The film features Hitler (portrayed […]

Hot, Steaming Muffins Of Death!

by Smitty Check out the Mind Numbed Robot’s AutoMotivator. If you dare. And, Bubba: get stuffed with your agitated rhetoric.

Daley Gator Misses The Metaphor

by Smitty DG may be slipping in his dotage: Isn’t it obvious that the baseball is any national or international event, the girl with the (base) balls is Sarah Palin, and the shmuck is a Barely Halfwit Outfielder?

Hey, Has Anybody Else Noticed That Bob Belvedere Is a Persistent Blogwhore?

And, obviously, I mean that as a compliment. Everybody should learn to apply Rule 1 and Rule 2 with such relentless persistence.

Irony And The Streisand Effect

by Smitty Much ‘Hey!’ has been made about the topless march in Portland. This is a variation on the theme of the Streisand Effect: a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of causing the information to be publicized widely and to a […]

Bedtime Viewing

by Smitty Some of our readers appreciate the crunchy stuff, so here is a bit of absurdity via Kottke: If you’re feeling more classical than jazzy, you can go for Apocalyptica: And if you’re feeling more crunchy and absurdist, Beatallica blends ‘Enter Sandman’ with ‘Taxman’ to demented effect:

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