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Seriously, I’ve watched this like four times since I first saw it a minute ago.  I emailed a bunch of people with it. I can’t stop laughing.  It’s been a long day and there’s still a lot left to go, but this makes it all better:

Seriously, full-screen it.  It’s totally worth it.

Count on this blog for all the good news, folks.  But you really need to read just how bad things suck at GM before we start the process of bailing them out.

Given the numbers that pretty much all the media seems to agree on - that, for example, as many as 2 million jobs could be affected by the collapse of GM - I’m inclined to agree with the need for some sort of bailout.  But there seems to be such an endemic problem with our automobile industry that I begin to wonder if what we should be looking for is closer to a soft landing than a rescue.

I don’t know what the next thing after GM would be.  I don’t know how GM changes it’s ways and suddenly begins to research and develop new technology, or if the myriad of startups playing with green technology are capable of handling even parts of the marketplace that is currently dominated by GM in that venerable company’s absense.  I just don’t know.

But the times they are a-changin’, no matter what happens.

A “Chilling” edict was sent out at Fox News: Lay Off Obama.  And this seems to have come directly from the top, from Rupert Murdoch himself.

Righties are in a snit over this, pointing out in what is probably a fairly accurate instinct that Roop is hoping to keep the Fairness Doctrine dogs at bay.  The Fairness Doctrine is a boogieman of the Right, however silly that might be.  And aw, shucks!  Does that mean Fox News will actually have to start reporting news and stop willfully slandering Barack Obama as a Muslim (clutch the pearls)?

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Profit down 97 percent.

I know, I should just go to a local shop.  But now that I’m in the freakin’ suburbs, that’s not as easy as it once was.  I miss Spot.

BBC News has an interesting article about the future of “Web2.0″ sites and development, interviewing the man who coined the term Web2.0.  Seems like, if he only knew the silliness about to be unleashed on the Internet, he might have named it something different or avoided it altogether.

But much though he may sourpuss at the irrelevance of some Web2.0 applications, the fact is that we are by and large fairly frivolous people with fairly frivolous interests.  It doesn’t diminish the Web2.0 brand to see that silly little social applications have been built, it reinforces the relevance that the Web2.0 evolution has had in that powerful concepts have invaded the simplest of communication.  To be sure, loading down browsers with a ton of irrelevant JavaScript crap is not what the originators had in mind.  They had it in mind that we would “harness collective intelligence.”

Weep for the lost opportunity if you must.  But what they didn’t have in mind - indeed, what the visionaries of our society so rarely ever have in mind - is the sheer volume of our collective intelligence occupied at all moments with the research and development of fart jokes.

TalkingPointsMemo.com caught a truly “remarkable” bit of revisionist history from the Right, desperate to save face after the Bush Years have faded in the sunset.  One sentence says it all:

In the eight years [Bush] has been President, it is remarkable how few gaffes or verbal blunders he has committed.

Oh, indeed.  Indeed.

In a CNN Money article about Obama’s push to get Bush to sign on for help for the auto industry, the last paragraph sums up the last eight years quite nicely, actually:

Regarding any new economic stimulus plan, the White House has repeatedly stressed that its main priority is passage of a free trade agreement with Colombia.

What?!?  Why would *another* trade agreement be the top priority of the White House at a time like this?  Well, you can bet that a bunch of Bush’s corporate buddies decided to press for this one last thing before he left office.  One more billion dollar present from the President Reject of the United States.

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