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See how BP handles a major coffee spill in the boardroom![1]  --  From UCBcomedy.com....

D.C. Douglas, also known as Lance Baxter, took political humor into new territory in a five-minute video response to FOX News's outing of his "drunk-dial" call to Freedom Works, a conservative non-profit that trains activists and organizes fake "grassroots" activism.[1,2]    --  BACKGROUND: D.C. Douglas, 44, is a character actor and voice actor born in Berkeley who now lives in Los Angeles....

"Oh, South Carolina, you just keep on giving, don't you?" Jon Stewart said on "The Daily Show" on Jan. 25, 2010.[1]  --  Among the Palmetto State's latest gifts:  a "Subversive Activities Registration Act," passed in 2009 and now in effect, which requires "every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States" to "register with the Secretary of State," at a cost to said subversives of $5.00.[2] ...

The Supreme Court's appalling decision in Citizens United v. FEC has prompted a corporation to take "'democracy's next step':  It is running for Congress," a New York Times blog reported on Tuesday.[1] ...

Rarely have the conventions of television journalism been so effectively skewered as by Charlie Brooker of BBC 4 in a two-minute piece that illustrates all of them.[1]  --  One viewer commented:  "This is quite possibly the funniest -- and dead true -- send-ups of the news media I've ever seen.  I'd never heard the name 'Charlie Brooker' before now (me being in the U.S.), but I realized after I watched the clip that I'd SEEN him before, and was amused at his quippy intelligence in the past. . . . Maybe he's done something better, but how could he have done something with as much international reach?  BRAVO!" ...

Satan, it appears, has written a letter to Pat Robertson regarding his recent remarks on the earthquake in Haiti.  --  Somehow Lily Coyle of Minneapolis got hold of a copy and published it Thursday in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.[1] ...

Henry Giroux, the celebrated guru of critical pedagogy, should go back to school.  --  Consider these remarks from a 2007 interview:  "I mean I think the thing about Paulo that has never failed to not move me was the extraordinarily richness and originality of his interventions.  It's one thing to read his work, as, you know, we all did, and to recognize the obvious -- I mean, I mean, an assemblage of ongoing brilliant insights.  But to be around him and to -- there was a spontaneity coupled with a humility unlike I must say anything I have ever seen among a major intellectual."  --  Consider what Giroux accomplishes in only three sentences.  --  In the first sentence, a true gem, not only is Giroux redundant ("I mean I think"), verbose (the words "I mean I think the thing about" are entirely unnecessary), ungrammatical ("the extraordinarily richness"), and pretentiously Frenchifying ("his interventions"), he also manages to say precisely the opposite of what he means:  intending to comment about something in Freire that has never failed to move him, he instead says it has "never failed not to move" him!  --  The next sentence is not quite so egregious, merely exhibiting repetition ("I mean, I mean") and flawed diction (if "insights" are "ongoing," they constitute "vision"; "assemblage" should only be used for concrete objects).  --  But Giroux's third sentence concludes with a jewel of linguistic ineptitude:  "among a major intellectual."  --  Among requires at least three individuals; ordinary mortals sometimes use it instead of between, which requires two; but to use among with a noun in the singular requires genius.  --  What's striking in the video is that Giroux never betrays the slightest awareness that he is massacring the language.  --   O tempora o mores! ...