Category: Hathos Alert

Hathos Alert

Yay Sweden! Yay Guardian Eurovision live-blog! It just has that indispensably snarky British spin on it all, as in:

Standard drinking game rules apply tonight – a swig of whatever you fancy every time you spot a performance involving a) startling amounts of facial hair, b) excessive use of a wind machine, c) on-stage flames, d) accordion playing or e) gratuitous wearing of capes. Ordinarily we'd also suggest you drink whenever the presenters get a bit cringeworthy, but based on the semis you'll be crying in a corner with a bottle before the first note has been sung.

This year, even the British entry was ironic. I'm not sure how else to interpret Engelbert Humperdinck. 

Hathos Alert

AEI President Arthur Brooks is promoting his new book, The Road to Freedom. You could write a whole book about the language in this video. And you could call it the "Tyranny of Cliches:"

Noah Kristula-Green has more on the book, which relies heavily on "communism vs. capitalism comparisons to make the case for capitalism's morality," here and here. Now that's a book I need in the 21st century: why capitalism beats communism.

Hathos Red Alert

No, this is not from Bad Lip Reading:

The guy laughing behind her priceless. Update from a reader:

I can't laugh at this video, because that woman speaks and reasons exactly like my schizophrenic mother-in-law. I strongly suspect this woman is suffering from a similar illness – not because of the views she espouses, but because of the way in which she presents them, moving from gay sex to gay hospital workers to Whitney Houston to elementary students to Hillary Clinton and back without even pausing.

Another is familiar with the lady:

I'm a recent graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and she regularly comes to our campus – rain or shine, cold or hot – to stand there yelling incoherent groups of sentences, much like in the video. She also hands out flyers to students full of the same stuff. She has a Facebook page (created by students). In short, she's crazy, the students know she's crazy. She yells at us about Obama, South Africa and Chinese subliminals, and we all move on with our lives.

Incidentally, on the non-discrimination legislation in front of Lincoln's City Council? Check your Nebraska news May 14. There's a 5-2 Democratic majority on the council and a supportive mayor, and City Councilman Carl Eskridge has the votes. One more step forward.

(Hat tip: Wonkette)