A friend sent me a link to "Hitler vs. Vader" and I was so amused I took at look at the rest. So you don't have to waste the amount of time I did, I hereby offer the best of the "Epic Rap Battles of History." (I can't recommend watching these anywhere someone might take offense to strong language.)
The Second Annual "Draw Mohammad Day" has come and gone. Since I wasn't Raptured this past Saturday, I'm providing a Mohammed Monday Special Edition (since the usual Mohammed Monday is a feature at Shades of Gray) with a couple of my favorite YouTube videos from DMD2. (The bottom one is NOT one you want to play if you're somewhere F-bombs might get you in trouble.)
THIS is what the web was created for. The zoophiles and pedarasts of al-Qaeda don't hate us for our freedom, but rather for making clips like these instead of providing more porn for them to download in their secret hideouts. And therein is the difference between Western Decadence and Islamic Decadence.
"Krazy Kat" is one of the all-time classic comic strips. By George Herriman, it's surreal, poetic, funny, touching, violent, and just plain weird.
It's basically a Funny Animal strip about unrequited love... or maybe unconditional love. Whatever it's about, there's a triangle of love/hate between the innocent Krazy, the mean-spirited Ignatz, and the gruff Officer Pup. The strip long been a favorite of mine. Here are a couple random samples of the series. (Click on the images for readable versions.)
Here's a fun animation that gives the gist of Krazy Kat and his world.
Scenes like this belong in North Korea, not North America.
We should not be teaching our children to sing songs of worship to a man, but instead the ideals that our country stands for. We should be teaching children how the government functions and that American institutions are bigger and greater than one man. We should NEVER have a Dear Leader figure in the United States.
I hope you all are having a wonderful day, enjoying the time with family and friends and considering how fortunate we are. Even when things are at their worst for us here in the United States, we are better off than many, many people around the world.
Here's a bit of fun by way of a Thanksgiving pageant with Wednesday Addams in the role of Pocahontas (from "Addams Family Values"):
Halloween is here, and Michelle Phan has a last-minute quick and easy costume tip for all you proscratinaters. Or a quick and easy way for you to get ready for the Nine Days of the Ninja, which start tomorrow.
Ever since the Danish Cartoon Riots in 2005, I've been looking for just one Muslim who would state what idiocy it is to get bent out of shape over cartoons, not to mention how vile it is to try to force your beliefs on others through violence and threats of violence, without making excuses for those engaging in the violence and heaping condemnation upon them.
Until now, I've had no luck. Even if condemnation of the violence was offered, it was always followed by some version of "but they're justified and those those dirty-minded creatives who don't tremble at the feet of our God, Mohammed, deserve whatever comes to them."
I always suspected there was a decent Muslim thinker out there, but my Google-Fu is weak, so I never did find them.
Well, today, while trying to research something completely unrelated to Islam, Muslims, or cartoons, I stumbled upon that One Righteous Thinker! She posts to YouTube, and here are the relevant clips.
First, she put up this video addressing artists taking part in "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" on May 21.
She followed up with this video on May 22 that was addressed to Muslims who decide to act out whenever they see a cartoon they think is of Mohammed.
She concludes with this video (also from May 22).
As rational and intelligent as this young lady seems--and she is someone I can respect, even if I happily accept that she will never have any respect for me--she probably doesn't realize that I and many like me hold freedom of expression every bit as sacred as she holds Mohammed.
Muslims (Christians, Jews, Neo-Pagans, whatever) are welcome to worship whoever and whatever they want. They are are welcome to worship however and whatever they want, so long as they don't try to violently force those beliefs on others.
I don't know if Osama bin Laden is trying to show that he's really not such a bad guy, or if he's just trying to emphasize the queer part in al-Queerda.
Whatever his reason, he's partying harder than a high schooler after his first beer and a couple of Ecstasy tablets.
(Okay... for the humor impaired, I KNOW that's not Osama bin Laden in the video. But it's still funny as hell.)
There's a Romanian techno song that's taken YouTube by storm. Here are a couple homemade videos where posters tried to make sense of the lyrics in English. Both are hilarious.
