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GOP Spinmaster Teaches Stephen Colbert How to Sugarcoat Oil Drilling & Global Warming (Video)

August 17, 2011

Screen grab via Comedy Central

Frank Luntz is arguably one of the biggest reasons the United States has been able to dodge taking action to address climate change for so long — in an infamous memo (which was leaked and obtained by a green group), he…

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"Stop the Environment": Let’s Kill it Before it Kills Us… (NSFW Reno 911/Ed Asner Video)

August 15, 2011

Screengrab: Funny or Die

Earlier today, Mat reported on how dismal the mainstream media’s coverage of this year’s extreme weather has been: Major news outlets, those perceived both to be left and right leaning, fail more often than not to discuss any…

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Have You Ever Had a Broken Heart? The Museum of Broken Relationships Needs Your Donations

August 12, 2011

Photo: new.brokenships: Divorce Day Mad Dwarf, 20 years,Ljubljana, Slovenia

“Oh, it’s cryin’ time again, you’re gonna leave me…” Think of the song that makes you remember the one that got away. Then think of a whole museum of objects signifying a…

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Just What We Needed Dept.: A Banana Slicer and a Corn Dekerneler

August 11, 2011

I do go on about minimalism and doing more with less, and complain about what the Unclutterer calls Unitaskers, usually kitchen gadgets that serve a single, mostly ridiculous purpose. I mean really, how hard is it to slice a banana? How long does it …

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Stephen Colbert: Global Warming is a Lie, Just Like Thermodynamics (Video)

August 10, 2011

Image: Screenshot, Comedy Central

Global warming is a hoax whipped up by the media — and so are the very laws of thermodynamics. So sayeth Stephen Colbert, in this supremely amusing segment on the latest in brain-dead global warming denial:

…Rea…

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Duck Hunters Oppose Wind Farm Because it Kills Ducks (Daily Show Video)

August 4, 2011

Photo credit: bjmcdonald via Flickr/CC BY

Yes, wind turbines kill birds. But only a very small number of them, and scientists are hard at work to further improve technology that might prevent these deaths in the future. Cats and sport hunters kill ma…

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The Onion Uncovers Strange Disturbance in Herd of Climate Scientists (Video)

August 2, 2011

Nation’s Climatologists Exhibiting Strange Behavior (Season 1: Ep 5 on IFC)

Evidently, something is causing large numbers of a common breed of researcher known as “the climate scientist” to act increasingly agitated. As the Onion reports, nobody is re…

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Help Choose The Winning Architect Barbie Dream House

July 19, 2011

When I wrote about Architect Barbie I complained bitterly about her house, sort of cross between Karim Rashid and Charles Addams. The folks at the American Institute of Architects didn’t think much of it either, and having a lot of time on their han…

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Stephen Colbert Takes on Fracking

July 15, 2011

Photo: Screengrab from Comedy Central

It’s sort of surprising that Stephen Colbert’s caricature of a Foxy uber-conservative pundit has lasted this long — he gets a remarkable amount of mileage out of his now-famous persona. Sure, his satiric charact…

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Conan O’Brien Commutes via Carpool and Fights LA Traffic With Road Rage (Video)

July 10, 2011

Image via video screenshot.

There are lots of great reasons to carpool to work. It saves gas money, reduces carbon emissions, and fights traffic by putting fewer cars on the road. It even decreases stress levels. And using late night talk show hosts …

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