Itch In My Brain

Yooha! has a set of hilariously-captioned AP news photos featuring Bush and his criminal gang.

NYU has a neat little techie project in which software attempts to identify those hard-to-name tunes, if you hum them into a microphone for it.

Amazing. It’s like Krusty the Klown in the flesh…an insane, incredibly vulgar loudmouth clown a assaulting people on the streets of NYC and New Orleans.

Allegedly this guy is linked with Howard Stern. You’ve been warned.

Here’s a fascinating article describing the late Stanley Kubrick’s private estate. It’s a rare look into the inner sanctum of a brilliant artist-filmmaker.

Nicely twisted spins on classic children’s stories: Horton Hires a Whore, Curious George and the High-Tension Power Line, and more.

Watch little Russian boy Eugene Mirman put his unique spin on all your favorite popular tunes. He started singing “Mickey” when the page loaded and I almost pissed myself laughing.

Biterwaitress.com collects horror stories from waitresses around the country, and there’s quite a few recollections of celebrity encounters. Discover what a stingy bastard your favorite movie star is… or perhaps what a swell person he/she is.

After looking at last week’s debate between Chris Hitchens and George Galloway and being duly impressed by the latter, I traveled around the web to see if any more videos of him existed. I’d nearly forgotten that Galloway was one of the individuals the Bush administration attempted to implicate in the Oil-for-food Scandal earlier this year.

Galloway was called before the Senate in an unprecedented testimonial on his alleged involvement with the Hussein regime. You can watch the entire proceedings here. It is perhaps the first time in our history that a foreign statesman has bitchslapped our corrupt Senate right on the chamber floor.

Conservatives attack Galloway as an appeaser and supporter of Saddam Hussein, while failing to note that the documents “implicating” him were forgeries distributed after the war. It’s also important to point out that no one on either side of the Atlantic has bothered to bring Galloway to trial (because there is absolutely no evidence against him). Galloway’s unmitigated victory in a libel suit on the same topic is further proof in his favor.

British MP George Galloway recently debated former liberal Christopher Hitchens in NYC on September 14, and it was quite a showdown. Tempers flared on both sides as Hitchens defended his decision to support the Iraq War in the face of blistering attacks from Galloway:

You start off being the liberal mouthpiece of one of the most reactionary governments this country has ever seen on the subject of war. You say you’ve got your own liberal reasons for doing so, and you end up an apologist and a mouthpiece for those miserable, malevolent incompetents who couldn’t even pick up the bodies of their own citizens in New Orleans in the aftermath of a hurricane.

That’s where it ends. That’s where it ends. You end up a mouthpiece and an apologist for the Bush family whose matriarch, you want to talk about racism? What about Barbara Bush? What about Barbara Bush who took a look at the poor, huddled, masses in the Astrodome and told us they’d never had it so good? Who told us they were better off than they’d ever been. Underprivileged people, now in an Astrodome, the only problem with whom she said was that so many of them wanted to stay in Texas. You know, Hitchens, you’re a court jester. You’re a court jester.

Not at Camelot, like other ridiculous other former liberals before you, but at the court of the Bourbon Bushes. Barbara Bush, the Marie Antoinette of modern-day American politics.

Advantage: Galloway. Hitchens, while a master of polite and eloquent rhetoric, offered nothing but the usual neo-con grab bag of talking points. Galloway nailed him repeatedly on his hypocritical stances.

View the entire video here. Keep in mind this debate is two hours long; set aside time for it. It’s well worth the watch.