Category Archives: Politics

A necessary evil?

Top 10 Videos of 2011: 7. “Matt Damon Defends Teachers”

Lesson #1 for agenda-driven interviewers: don’t fuck with Matt Damon. If you do, it’ll probably end up on YouTube. Case in point: this video from the Save Our Schools March last July of Damon pwning a microphone-toting libertarian and her, um, substandard cameraman. Continue reading

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Top Ten Videos of 2010: 4. The Colbert Report, “Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat”

My man Stephen Colbert made it tough on me in 2010, in a good way. He had enough excellent moments to make selecting just one for my top ten feel almost completely arbitrary. I ultimately went with this one, from the December 16th episode of the Report, for the total force of its hypocrisy-bashing. Make sure you watch the whole clip, because he saves the coup de grâce for the last couple of lines. Continue reading

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