Yahoo! Top News The Agonist Benton Communication HeadlinesHowdy folks – time now for yet another episode of Scholars & Rogues’ critically acclaimed Saturday Video Roundup! Today we pay tribute to men, mostly. It’s hard to be a man, especially when there are so many things that a man is without. For example, here are some men without shirts.
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Ready to have a little fun? Good, because this week’s SVR is more fun than a barrel of monkees. Doing music videos. Let’s kick it off with an ode to lip gloss. Because, you know, it be poppin’.
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Howdy, folks, and welcome to Saturday Video Roundup, where today our guests tackle the tricky issue of education and politics. Up first, one of our heroes offers some thoughts on education in our ownership society.
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Welcome back to Saturday Video Roundup, where today we turn our attention to Jesus. We begin with the Rev. Rowan Atkinson, reading a lesson from what we can only assume is some sort of new revised version of the Bible.
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Welcome to the Saturday Video Roundup. Today we begin with the trailer for a movie I can’t wait to see.
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Welcome to this week’s installment of the Scholars & Rogues SVR, which promises to start strong and then go downhill like a runaway shopping cart.
First up: If you’ve never heard or heard of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, educate yourself. This woman, a gospel legend who could play a mean blues guitar, inspired no less than Johnny [...]
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This simply couldn’t wait until the Saturday Video Roundup.
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And thanks for joining us for yet another edition of Saturday Video Roundup. Let’s start by putting down the popcorn, grabbing a partner, and diving into America’s latest dance craze.
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Welcome to the Saturday video roundup. We kick things off today with a totally gratuitous bit of … ummm … historical revisionism? … from Electric Six.
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It’s been a great week for videos. By all means, keep those links coming.
First up, you may have seen this week’s report about drunk astronauts. Well, before you can be a drunk astronaut you have to be a drunk pilot. (Thanks to Steve Reynolds.)
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Apple wants me to be a Pod Person. Seriously. According to them, I’m the frumpy, square, humorless, uncreative, stuck in biz-mode PC guy in the ads. I’m the one not wearing the coveted white earbuds with a microscopic music player clipped to my collar. And I’m not part of the [...]
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First there was this, which I thought was one of the stone cold funniest things I’d ever seen:
But then I got to thinking – hey, wait a second:
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For those who don’t know, pioneering progressive blogger Steve Gilliard died last evening after a long hospital stay. Gilliard was creator and head writer of The News Blog, one of (in my view) the best progressive political sites on the Web.
Gilliard was also one of the earliest and most powerful voices showcased on The Daily [...]
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New technologies are rarely intuitive. And that’s where the helpdesk comes in. Oh, yes, and the manual. This familiar, timeless scene is from the Norwegian TV show Øystein og jeg (hat tip to JoAnne at Cosmic Variance).
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Today, scholar and rogue nonpareil George Carlin turns 70.
Looking for recent pieces on him, I saw this column by a guy named Leo Kelley with the Ada Evening News who says he wrote George and got a moving response about the desperate straits America finds itself in these days. “I’m going to share his [...]
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