9:00pm — It’s the first night of the new Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC!*
*And don’t let them de-dyke you, Rachel! We love you just the way you are — always the smartest one in the room and dancing circles around Pat Buchanan! 
- Ted Talks: My Year of Living Biblically
- Barack Obama is planning to visit Tennessee!
- And who doesn’t need to get rid of some clutter?
- Why You’re Better Off Avoiding the iPhone (via cmwillis).
- Do you ever read something that is just so incredibly stupid that you have trouble even trying to process the folly? Usually I’m left speechless by extreme cases of idiocy like this one (also see here), whereas Naamah had no such trouble in responding (don’t follow the link if you’re bothered by colorful language).
And finally, there’s this gem. Way back in the day, when Dear Daughter was just a toddler, and she thought that the TV only had one channel, and that that channel had only one hour of programming a day (see, we ruin our kids when we let them go off to school and they find out about all sorts of evil stuff, like Disney and candy and Chuck E. Cheese), she used to get to watch Sesame Street. I probably wouldn’t let her watch it if she was a kid now, but back then, before Elmo, and before Jim Henson died and the Muppets got whored out to anyone wanting to make a sleazy buck, it was a pretty cool show. And it was because of features like Put Down the Ducky.
I can still see her in my mind’s eye, clutching her little plastic saxophone while doing a hoppy little dance and shrieking along with the song, while I enjoyed it for all the cool people who made appearances (John Candy as Yosh Schmenge from SCTV, Andrea Martin as Edith Prickley from SCTV, New York Mets Keith Hernandez & Mookie Wilson, Jane Curtin, Madeline Kahn, Joe Williams, Paul Reubens/Pee Wee Herman, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Wynton Marsalis, Celia Cruz, Ihtzak Perlman, Gordon Jackson & Jean Marsh as Angus Hudson and Rose Buck of Upstairs Downstairs, Paul Simon, Jeremy Irons, Pete Seeger, Rhea Perlman and Danny Devito, and NY Giants Sean Landeta, Mark Ingram, Karl Nelson and Carl Banks). I hope the video doesn’t get yanked off of youtube, but if it does, I’ll try to find a replacement somewhere…
- John Hagee Knows Women
- McCain = Bush
- Ten best lightsaber mashups in all of Youtubedom
- Best Advertisement Ever
- McCain: “I do not support Roe v. Wade. It should be overturned.”
- I’m Voting Republican
- john.he.is
- Tenn. Democratic Party Official: Obama ‘May Be Terrorist Connected’
- Green Screen fun with McCain’s awful speech
- Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
- Alex: you can’t have him, Gramps!
- Obama’s new ad
- One of the McCain homes
- John McCain: “I really didn’t love America”
- Where the hell is Matt 2008
- McCain bloopers
- Do you know what McCain called his wife? (He also scolds others for using the same language)
Nerve.com has compiled a list — with accompanying video clips — of the 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies. There’s some great stuff on this list, which is, rightfully, dominated by the efforts of the SNL cast over the years.
I spoke to a lot of journalists about how I should speak up here. And all the journalists said “Craig, Your duty is to speak truth to power. That’s what you do, you hold the truth up for everyone to see, that’s your job.” I’m sorry. I don’t see it that way. That’s your job. You’re journalists. I’m a late night television show guy. I make up crap that isn’t true then I say it on TV. I’m like Fox News. I’m not a journalist.
– Craig Ferguson at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner
<sigh> I think maybe the United States has, with the obvious exception of Helen Thomas, the dumbest press in the free world.
If our job teaches us anything, it’s that we don’t know what the next President’s gonna face. And if we choose someone with vision, someone with guts, someone with gravitas, who’s connected to other people’s lives, and cares about making them better… if we choose someone to inspire us, then we’ll be able to face what comes our way and achieve things… we can’t imagine yet.
(Surely, we can improve on the current, criminally unimaginative, adminstration…)
Post Gay, Post Race, Post Gender, and — and don’t think we’re not counting the minutes — Post Leno!
UPDATE: more here!
April 1st UPDATE: Leno has apologized.
I’ve been watching Hulu for a few months now and it’s definitely very cool (especially when I use my TV as a monitor!). It’s going public tomorrow. You might want to check it out.
Frontline’s Is Wal-Mart Good For America is now available to watch, for free, online. It’s really interesting stuff.
