Iyow - in your own words

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Of course I am a big hypocrite, as my favorite thing to do with my free time is watch Tyra Banks torture fledgling wanna-be models.

While wandering around, this video of a very fast drive caught my eye:

Video by vlogger of Video of the Moment. The music is especially good, sounds like one of those live pianos on an old silent movie soundtrack. (On Windows, best seen with Firefox ; or on Linux/Gnome Desktop, best seen on Totem Movie Player via Konqueror – it’s really slow on IE on Windows and crashes on Firefox on Linux.)

At a friend’s baby shower, I was recently handed an independent documentary called “Voices of Patriots.” In it are oral-history-like opinions from experienced military, offering disturbing and difficult insights about our involvement in Iraq. Most of all, one gets the sense that there is no easy way out, and there will be no clear benefits to our military actions. More and more, I feel we will be lucky to achieve any stability at all.

More info on Voices of Patriots can be found here, and there is a Real Media stream here.

Honorable retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor still has a lot to say.

Sitting justices often can’t voice their personal politics openly, but now that she’s left the bench, O’Connor has some strong words against the intimidation and manipulative tactics that Republican Congress leaders have waged against the judicial branch. O’Connor plainly declares that though judges can often make the President and Congress “very very angry”, that is an indicator that judges are doing their job right. Link above to NPR’s Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg’s summary of a speech O’Connor made last Thursday at Georgetown University.

Forwarded to me by my most pop culture-alert friend: James Lipton reciting Popo Zao,

James also often seems like he’d rather be dancin’ – the last two interviews I saw, he exchanged tendus with Dave Chapelle and initiated a pas de deux arabesque with Charlize Theron, respectively.