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Just a pointer to this fantastic, big league idea to convert Trump's tweets into eight year old script.
The other day, I expressed my disappointment at how Samantha Bee of The Daily Show got the politics of antivaccinationism wrong in a segment that was funny, but promoted the stereotype of antivaccine activists as being mainly crunchy lefties. In that post, I mentioned how the Texas Republican Party had a plank in its platform for "vaccine choice" in 2012. Now, thanks to PZ Myers, I notice that the plank appears to be there still for 2014:
All adult citizens should have the legal right to conscientiously choose which vaccines are administered to themselves, or their minor children, without…
Jon Stewart somehow seems to grasp the real importance of Obama's speech:
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If only we'd thought about getting off oil before! But at least the dinos didn't die in vain!
The good news is that GWB is probably right - we won't be using as much foreign oil in 2025.
Sharon
From Andrew Sullivan:
I watched the Daily Show with growing shock last night. Did you expect that? I expected a jolly and ultimately congenial discussion, after some banter. What Cramer walked into was an ambush of anger. He crumbled from the beginning. From then on, with the almost cruel broadcasting of his earlier glorifying of financial high-jinks, you almost had to look away. This was, in my view, a real cultural moment. It was a storming of the Bastille. It was, as Fallows notes, journalism.
This is truly is something to see, just as Stewart's pieces on Cramer and CNBC, back to his…