Wanda Sykes does D.C.

With reference to the last post, I’ll see that and raise you on minorities cracking jokes. Here’s Wanda Sykes, a much-celebrated comedian who had the honour to speak at last year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which is an annual festivity at which the President as well as people from the press and media and entertainment [...]

Entgegen der Krise

Da es hier in letzter Zeit so Ernst war, etwas zur Aufheiterung: Old Jews telling jokes.

Leider konnte ich das Video, das ich hier zeigen wollte nicht einbettet. Aber das oben fand ich auch sehr lustig. Nachdem es fertig ist, sollte man unter weitere Episoden die Folge mit Charlotte Bornstein, “Food Issues”, anschauen.

Bubbles and depressions

Another fine article by Matt Taibbi about the bailout economy and how the banks are running a giant con game on the taxpayer. If you have the stomach to read it, that is. Here’s one excerpt about how the toxis asset bubble is now reinflating:
One trader, who asked not to be identified, recounts a story [...]

Stewart and O’Reilly

Even though they might be considered (and somehow are) opponents in the media field, I keep wondering how the two, who make it their daily business to slag off the other’s show and audience, manage to keep such a civil and good-natured tone when they guest on the other’s programme every once in a while. [...]

What to do with unsold clothes…

NATO-Geheimarmeen (Daniele Ganser)

Der Historiker an der Uni Basel, Daniele Ganser, hat mit seiner Doktorarbeit vor ein paar Jahren einen internationalen Knüller gelandet. Zum ersten Mal arbeitete jemand systematisch die lange geheim gehaltenen Geheimarmeen (daher der Name) der NATO auf. Diese Armeen waren so geheim, dass manche Verteidigungsminister wie auch die Parlamente in Europa selber davon keine Ahnung [...]

On human compartmentalization (Haiti/Gaza)

… and by compartmentalization I’m not even attempting a clever pun on the people of Gaza being stuffed into a physical compartment, which they are, of course. It’s about how the human mind can split its perception of two similar things and feel quite different about either one. Or how one can be totally concerned [...]

Haiti is being “helped” to death

Before anyone accuses me of denying emergency aid to the people of Haiti, I want to point out that I’m all for giving Haitians every bit of help we can afford — just not only now, in the form of food deliveries and water tanks and search-and-rescue teams. The world needs to look at Haiti [...]

Real talk by Craig Ferguson

With all the phoniness and bickering and backstabbing between the late night TV hosts, here’s a bit of late night talk we don’t get enough of. Craig Ferguson uses a pledge to make no more Britney Spears jokes to move onto a deeply personal story of how he realised he himself had an alcohol problem. [...]

The end of gaiety in New Jersey

New Jersey state senators dumped the bill asking for gay marriage to be allowed in the Garden of Eden State. What’s striking, and Wyatt Cenac nails this in his report for the Daily Show, is the complete lack of a historical perspective on the debate. Black people, hasidic Jews and more minorities were up in [...]