How to Work Out from Home

It's gut-check time... This time of year, in early February, a lot of folks begin to lose sight of their New Year's resolutions, particularly when it comes to exercising. Here is a CLASSIC 3-minute video with some really excellent ideas about how to work out from home...

This Week in Blackness: The Year in Blackness, pt. 2 of 4

This Week in Blackness: The Year in Blackness, pt. 1 of 4

Prop 8: The Musical

From the Folks at "Funny or Die," a star-studded protest of Prop 8... and it is a musical, too!

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

This Week in Blackness #13: "Black, Black, Backity, Black"

The Onion: "Nation Finally Shitty Enough to Make Social Progress"

Very Oniony...

Obama's victory is being called the most significant change in politics since the 1992 election, when a full-scale economic recession led voters to momentarily ignore the fact that candidate Bill Clinton had once smoked marijuana. While many believed things had once again reached an all-time low in 2004, the successful reelection of President George W. Bush-despite historically low approval ratings nationwide-proved that things were not quite shitty enough to challenge the already pretty shitty status quo.

"If Obama learned one thing from his predecessors, it's that timing means everything," said Dr. James Pung, a professor of political science at Princeton University. "Less than a decade ago, Al Gore made the crucial mistake of suggesting we should care about preserving the environment before it became unavoidably clear that global warming would kill us all, and in 2004, John Kerry cost himself the presidency by criticizing Bush's disastrous Iraq policy before everyone realized our invasion had become a complete and total quagmire."

Ever Wonder Why Everything Sucks So Bad?

If so, watch this and it will all make sense:

BREAKING! Proof of Obama's Terrorist Links!!!!

BREAKING NEWS: 

I am sorry to have to be the one to break this news to all of you out there who believed in Barack Obama... The Obama campaign is all but finished, as new incontrovertible evidence has emerged linking him to domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers. The campaign has for weeks been trying to dodge and suppress the inevitable, at least until election day. But late yesterday afternoon, this explosive new "smoking gun" was delivered to the offices of Freedom Road and it has the Obama campaign reeling...

It appears true, after all, that a youthful Barry Obama, code name "The Hawaiian Lion," did, indeed, participate in the Weathermen's infamous 1969 "Days of Rage" campaign in Chicago:

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Well, there you have it. Incontrovertible proof that Obama is a violent, communist-socialist, Muslim-Christian-liberation-theologist, elitist, drug-addled, tax & spend, America-hater! I mean, just look at him there. That is obviously the face of a hate-filled terror-monger bent on destroying the American Dream™... And, if he did it once, he'll do it again, only this time from the White House!!! 

There's more...  accompanying the photographic proof that was delivered to our offices was an audio recording of Obama, JUST LAST WEEK, as he got ready to speak to a group of "community organizers," singing James Brown's subversive classic, "Funky President," and Parliament's incendiary, "Chocolate City," which features the militant black nationalist lyric, "They still call it the White House, but that's a temprorary condition" and the radical mantra, "Gainin' on ya!"...

We shoulda known all along it would come to this!

The Daily Show Skewers "Real America"

Each of these segments is devastatingly funny...

• Priend or Pfoe:


• Wasilla's Main Street:


• "Are You a Real American?" quiz:

Palin As President

Click here and go poke around in the Oval Office with Sarah. Pass it along...

Op-Art: The Bailout

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McCain/Palin as a Children's Book

This one speaks for itself...

Stuff White People Like

This is a really funny website. According to the makers, "This is a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like. They are pretty predictable."

So, what are some of the things white people like?

• sushi
• farmer's markets
• dogs
• children's games as adults
• dinner parties
• Toyota Prius
• 80s night
• religions their parents don't belong to
• Microbreweries
• non-profit organizations
• self-aware hip-hop references
• being an expert on YOUR culture
• having two last names
• wine
• coffee
• writers workshops

For the full list and explanations, check out the website!

What would you add to the list? What other stuff do white people like?

Oh, and for all the defensive white folks out there, have a sense of humor, already. Sheesh.

Pass it along...

(Thanks to Winston Scarlett, who checks in on Freedom Road from Middletown, New York, for reminding me recently of this website. Check out Winston's blog, This Modern Love.)

Robert Downey, Jr., Blackens Up for "Tropic Thunder"

The new Ben Stiller film, "Tropic Thunder," has attracted controversy for a few reasons, including Robert Downey, Jr.'s character's decision to "blacken up." Is it simply ironic humor or is it offensive?

In response, a Slate reporter posed the question this way: Is it ever acceptable for a white actor to put on blackface for a role?

See how he answered in this 6 minute video report:



What do you think? Is it ever acceptable for a white actor to wear blackface, even if done ironically?

Tom Tomorrow: "A Few Recent Examples of Awesomely Non-Racist Political Discourse"

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I'm Voting Republican!

I've done some soul-searching and, after watching the following video, have decided I've been wrong all these years and have decided to vote Republican in the upcoming November election:

The Empire Strikes Barack!

From the folks who brought you "Baracky," a new short film summarizing recent events in the campaign. Guess who Darth Vader is?

Hillary's New Ad in Pennsylvania Takes On Nefarious "Obama-Boss Connection"

Just kidding. The funny folks over at Slate made the ad...

Baracky!

OK, we all need a little levity to break up the tedium of this interminable primary season. To that end, this Rocky parody is really silly... and worth a look.

John Cleese Offers to Write for Obama Campaign

John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, has offered to work as a speech writer for the Obama campaign in the general election this fall. Now that has all kinds of potential!

Here is a Cleese classic from Monty Python's Flying Circus:

Any ideas for a John Cleese Obama sketch?