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I can't decide if this is the dumbest thing I have ever seen or not


Who is HotForWords? Her name is Marina Orlova, she’s 28 and she’s a philologist! Now you might be asking what the heck is a philologist? Well, it’s someone who studies linguistics and etymology.. and in Marina’s case.. she has applied her Philology degrees to specializing in word origins.

Marina has two degrees - Teaching of Russian Language and World Literature Specializing in Philology and the Teaching of English Language Specializing in Philology from State University of Nizhni Novgorod Region in Russian Federation, graduated 2002 and taught English to high school students for 2 years.

Marina burst on to the scene in mid 2007 launching her YouTube channel HotForWords, where she takes requests from YouTube viewers for words to discuss, and she releases 5-7 videos each week discussing the origins of these words, in a fun and playful manner!

Marina is the #1 most viewed Guru on YouTube, she’s consistently one of the most watched channels on ALL of YouTube as well, her videos are seen a few million times each week (currently at 195,640,113 Total Video Views on YouTube alone and counting), she recently hosted a bi-weekly radio show on Maxim Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio, she’s currently writing a book for HarperCollins on fun word origins - yet nobody really knows much about Marina, other than what her channel states - that she is from “The Capital of the Republic of Lexicon” and her hometown is “Etymologia” :-)

Called the “Sexiest Philologist in the world” by New Yorker Magazine, Marina was voted the World’s #1 Sexiest Geek by Wired Magazine’s Sexy Geek of the Year Contest, she’s been on the Bill O’Reilly Factor Show on Fox a few times teaching him a few word origins :-), she was voted the 5th hottest woman on the net by G4 TV and she was mentioned in Cosmopolitan Magazine as one of the top 3 channels on YouTube! As her tag-line at the beginning of her videos states “Intelligence is Sexy” - Marina is definitely doing her part to try to prove that point! For a video recap of all this, watch this segment from G4 Television’s Attack of the Show.

Marina can be found on YouTube at www.youtube.com/hotforwords and her website www.hotforwords.com.
-taken from her bio section of her website www.hotforwords.com
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The World Is Yours...

Very interesting article I found on TheVillageVoice.com concerning the future of the music industry (which in many ways is any music fan's future).  

How the Music Industry Died: Steve Knopper's Appetite for Self-Destruction
A Rolling Stone reporter charts the doomed path from Thriller to Internet-based horror

By Rob Harvilla

Congrats to Lil Wayne, whose Tha Carter III was the best-selling record of 2008—and the weakest-selling yearly bestseller since SoundScan started tracking these things nearly two decades ago. Couldn't crack three million. The music industry is toast, my friends. And congrats to Rolling Stone vet Steve Knopper, whose fantastic new book Appetite for Self-Destruction explains why, as it charts the dizzying highs (Thriller, the CD boom, boy bands) and brutal lows (payola, Napster hysteria, the "rootkit" debacle) of an oft-amoral biz whose legendary coke-fueled boom times now read as ancient history and/or science fiction. I rang up Steve recently to talk about it; here are some excerpts.
This book vacillates between sympathy for the music industry and outright contempt—you sincerely try to rationalize why the labels decided to start suing junior high students for illegal downloading, but you still conclude it was a horrible, horrible idea. How much pity do you have for these guys? Is this book a tragedy or a comedy?

I would make it a little bit more gray than that. I have a fondness for the record industry. Obviously, I'm a huge fan of [Fredric Dannen's 1990 music-biz tell-all] Hit Men—it's one of my favorite books ever, but I feel that that book was so tough on the music industry, it ventured several times into contemptuousness. My feeling was, I wanted to be very critical, and call a spade a spade, and say what they did wrong, but at the same time, I've covered music and the music industry for a long time, and I have a fondness for, you know, that whole sort of—this is gonna sound cynical; I don't mean it to—but that whole sort of "hookers and blow" era.

I was really getting into the chapter about the CD boom, where you've got these crazy Mafia characters, and you've got these coke addicts like Walter Yetnikoff at the head of these companies, running into offices and screaming at people. Guys who talk like this: raaaowr, raaaowr, raaaowr, like the Penguin in the Batman show. In Hit Men, I think it came across like, "These people are evil." To an extent, that's true. But my feeling was, I bet that was pretty cool, too.

You keep returning to the idea that lots of people, and I'm pretty sure I'm among them, consider a lot of the industry's troubles to be divine retribution—payback for decades of lousy artist contracts and $18.99 CDs. But given the technology, would it have made any difference if this industry had always been fair and benevolent and lovable? You and I both can find pretty much any album we like for free online in a couple of minutes—was there ever any way to stop this?

I'm trying to think of an analogy of another industry that was abused by technology that didn't do all those terrible things that the music industry did, and the only one that comes to mind is the newspaper industry. It seems like the newspaper industry wasn't as evil and stonewalling, and still may face the same inevitable just desserts because of technology. The point I make in the Napster chapter (and I'm not the first one to make this point): Had the record labels jumped into a deal with Napster when the time was right, when Napster was at its peak, I really do think that could've been a business model. Maybe it wouldn't have sent them back to 1994 levels of business, but I think they wouldn't be in the horrible position they're in today.

You're right that people embraced Napster and Kazaa and Torrents because of spite, but I actually think that was a relatively small contingent of people. I think that the people who embraced it most embraced it because, "What a cool thing. I don't have to get in my car and go to Tower Records and buy the $18 CD if I want this song. I can just get it in my home and mess around." And then you start fantasizing a little bit. What if Napster did become a real, legit thing? It would have anticipated Facebook and Friendster and MySpace. It would have been social networking. It would have allowed you to make mixtapes and trade playlists. It would have eventually gone to cell phones; it would have predated the iPhone. It could have been an incredibly powerful service—and not just because everything was free. You charge people a fair price for that, maybe that anti-music-industry contingent wouldn't have taken it, but a lot of people would have.

Did you mess around with Napster yourself at the time? Have you ever been swayed by the "music wants to be free" crowd, ever buy into the theory that this was a people's revolution to overthrow an evil, outdated industry?

No. Basically not. I did tinker around with Napster, yes. I got a lot of good, free music at the time—I guess I won't be sued anymore for that. But, basically, I thought it was theft. I still think it was piracy. I realize I'm walking a bit of a fine line in the book, because I'm not ripping on the music industry for just saying, "Oh, my God, this is piracy. We need better locks." I'm not criticizing that impetus, that notion. I'm basically saying they should've taken the next step and gone, "Oh wait, this'll revolutionize our industry."

The last chapter lists everything the music industry should do—needs to do—to survive. What percentage of that do you think will actually come to pass? How optimistic are you? What percentage of the people you interviewed will still hold the same job five years from now?

I just think that the smaller labels are going to continue to stumble, if they're not bought outright. EMI seems to be reeling right now. Warner's stock price is way down, although they've had some success. Probably, you're going to wind up with a couple hit machines: Universal, maybe Sony-BMG. You still are going to need those kinds of companies, that expertise, to find the proverbial Toni Braxton singing in the gas station, discovered by some label talent scout. But those companies are going to make less and less money, and get smaller and smaller, and get less and less influential, and I think that maybe Live Nation or Ticketmaster or my mythical Apple-EMI is going to pop up and change the model and be more nimble.

Another point I want to make is that these labels will always own some really incredible assets. EMI owns the Beatles catalog, so they're always going to be a player. You or I could own the Beatles catalog and make money. Just not make enough money to have hookers and blow.
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KAT DENNINGS. im on my knees

Ok, I just saw Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist... no response neccesary. The highlight of the film ISN'T the recurring role of nerdy-role-abused Michael Cera, but the busty and beautiful Kat Dennings. I guarentee your eyes wont leave the triangle made by her rediculous lips and the puppies she pulls out 1/4 into the movie. If she isn't enough eye candy, peep the fact that she runs her own, very honest, blog as well as a youtube channel that is... amusing. Here are some photos and a video to seal the deal.





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BLACK STAR REUNION AT NOKIA THEATRE IN TIMES SQUARE. WHY. WASN'T. I. THERE?

FINALLY A REUNION. ONE CAN ONLY HOPE THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING GREATER. JUST LIKE THE DUO. HERES SOM GAME FOOTAGE:



WE THE LIONS YOU THE CHEETAHSSSSSSSSS
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Gemma Booth

Treasure Box from Gemma Booth on Vimeo.


Photographer Gemma Booth's short film. Peep more at her blog HERE
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OBAMA THE DUDE



Obama's Flickr page gives day by day lifestyle shots. It almost brings a tear to my eye seeing Obama kick it like Joe The Plumber... You can't put a price on a genuine dude
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GRIZZLY BEAR: two weeks

RAN INTO THESE DUDES WHILE OUT ON MY MORNING JOG ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB. AND PROCEEDED TO BUY THEIR ALBUM. GET AT IT...
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Drink this down with your coffee... its the future son

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CHRISTIAN RICH: FAMOUS GIRL

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most def listen to MOS DEF's upcoming album

WISH I WAS AT THE BLACKSTAR CONCERT IN NY YESTERDAY
Mos Def - Words - The Ecstatic - available 6/9/09
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SHOTTAS


IF BELLY WASN'T ENOUGH

speaking of Belly, its follow up movie was the worst movie ever made:
Belly 2 aka Millionaire Boyz Club
(if you catch these scenes on your tv change the channel)

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PORN BY NUMBERS... (best excuse you never came up with)


Porn by Numbers Kit
Review by Ann Andriani 

This is a complete erotic paint by numbers kit. Now, you can become an erotic painter with ease.
Initial Thoughts

My boyfriend and I stumbled upon this site as we were surfing the net one night. Since I’m not an artist, I mean not an artist by any sense of the word.I figured this would be something to try. Plus it’s sexy, so how can I pass up the opportunity? I checked out the different pictures that were offered to paint and placed my order via Paypal. I wasn’t sure how quickly I would receive it or even in what quality I would receive it in because I was making a purchase on what appeared to be a free homepage/server. That usually makes me a little learly, however, there was nothing to worry about. I received my kit rather quickly, I believe within a week, and was extremely impressed with what I got. Now I can’t tell enough people about it!
What you get Each kit includes the following:

* A full size 8″x10″ numbered, outline of the print on real canvas.
* Approximately 3″ long tubes full of paint that is needed to complete the picture. All colors are supplied.
* If the background is a solid color, you get a little jug of that.
* 1 paint brush
* A postcard of the completed picture to guide you along
* A plastic box frame for you to store your painting once it’s finished

What I Liked

This kit comes with absolutely everything you need to paint your own erotica. I didn’t have to go out and purchase a thing! The paint supplied is more than enough for the picture, so you don’t have to worry about running out. The paint brush you are supplied with is of good quality; I used it for my entire painting and it didn’t give me any problems. Each tube of paint has a clearly printed number on the cork top, so there’s no possibility of you accidentally grabbing the wrong tube.

paints supplied in porn by number kit

Since I’m not an artist, I know nothing about shading, blending, etc. but with the numbers, I was able to just kick back and enjoy myself. It was a very relaxing experience for me, someone who is not a painter and who is never happy with the things I do. I painted this on my dining room table. If I happened to slip and get some paint on the table, it came off very easily and did not stain. My hands and clothes were also safe, everything washed away easily with soap and water. This is a very good thing because since I haven’t done this in a while, I was like a little kid getting it all over the place, but now that I’m finished, there’s no trace of any paint in my house.

My nails are not short, so at first I thought that would give me a problem removing and replacing the cork tops on the paint tubes, however that was NOT the case. The cork was sturdy, none of the tops broke on me. In fact, my project is finished and they are still in tact.
What I Didn’t Like

I can’t really say there’s anything I didn’t like. There was some confusion over the colors, but I honestly think that was due to my lack of experience. There were some colors that I was instructed to use to shade the one side of the woman’s face. However, when I applied the paint and even after it dried, it looked a little too dark, so I wound up making my own revisions and painting over the darker colors with lighter colors until I felt that it was more pleasing to my eyes. If that would have caused me run out of paint and not finish the project, I may have considered it a flaw in the product, but it had no affect whatsoever. I’m finished and still have plenty of paint left over.

I noticed that I had a lot of cracking on my painting, but I think that’s also due to my lack of experience. My boyfriend, who is more experienced with this kind of thing, had told me when I started to paint light layers. In my excitement, I think I applied it pretty heavily initially, so that was also my error, not any fault of the product. At least I know now to be careful with the next one.

A Quick little tip

Even though I’m no expert, I do have one tip. Since I don’t have a painter’s palette, I wanted to keep all the paint colors easily available to me, so I can see the numbers. I stood all the tubes inside a short drinking glass, which allowed me to quickly and easily grab the correct color, take off the cork top, paint right from the tube, stick the cork top back on and place back in the glass. It made things very easy and I didn’t have tubes of paint rolling all over the place.
The only thing I would change

This is kind of funny because it has absolutely nothing to do with the product. The website address is not something that’s easy to memorize due to it’s rather long and nondescript URL. The only way to really get back there is to bookmark it. If it was something easy to remember, people could get there more easily and maybe then more people would be able to experience such a great kit. So if you’re interested in this but aren’t going to purchase it right now, make sure you bookmark the page.

Finished Painting
Overall Thoughts


I haven’t engaged in a fun solo project like this in a long time and I haven’t painted anything in over 15 years.probably longer. I haven’t done it because usually I’m just not patient enough with myself and the process, and I know that a good painting can’t be done in one day/night. Plus, I haven’t found anything that I really wanted to paint. The stuff I’ve seen in craft stores just seem boring, but because I’m a pervert and love all things sexual, this was the perfect kit to get me started.

As of the time of writing, all available pictures are erotic, meaning there really isn’t any hardcore porn. It’s all in good taste, so this is something that you don’t have to fear someone seeing when leaving it out to dry. I can see this being a great erotic gift idea for that special someone or friend.

I had a blast with this! These past couple of months have been rather stressful for me and relaxing is not something that has come very easy, so I was a little concerned about starting this artistic project now. However, with the kit being so complete and with it being paint by numbers, I found this to be not only fun, but extremely relaxing; a great way for me to spend my free time.

I’m pretty sure my painting didn’t come out as good as others that have purchased from Scarlet_A…see there’s the perfectionist in me. However, when I started this project, that was not my goal; it didn’t have to come out perfectly. I purchased this kit for the experience and had a very enjoyable and very relaxing one at that. If you’re more experienced with painting, I’m sure yours will look much better. However, that’s also the point…you don’t have to be an artist to have fun with this or to make a good looking painting.

Wow, the review is almost finished and I haven’t even mentioned the best part about these kits.At the time of my own purchase and writing this review; they’re only $15.00 with an additional $5.00 for postage, that’s amazingly inexpensive! I can say with certainty that I will probably be getting the whole collection.

This Porn By Numbers Kit got a perfect rating… I believe this is the only product on this site to get a 5 out of 5 rating! The price is more than affordable, it’s a steal. You get everything you need to complete your painting. If you want to get different color paints you can, but you don’t have to. If you want to get more brushes you can, but you don’t have to. You can even get another frame, but you don’t have to. This project is literally accomplished right out of the package when it arrives. Including the box frame to display it in, that was the icing on the cake for me. I give this sexy product a perfect rating because I honestly don’t know what else could have been supplied for such an affordable price. There was nothing I needed and even though the my painting is not the most beautiful, I had a great time doing it! Bravo Annette!


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A Tribe Called Quest: Busta's Lement

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Don't shit your pants

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DO NOT FUCK WITH BAS RUTTEN

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Common: Announcement


my personal favorite off the new album.
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Streak To Win: If you don't know, now ya know

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OH Bama

Inside the Obama Family PR Machine
by Richard Wolffe
April 19, 2009 | 7:13am

As the Obamas mastered the media again this week, thanks to the rollout of their dog, Richard Wolffe reveals how the president's instincts and the first lady's discipline – and staff – are creating an image juggernaut.

Of all the picture-perfect moments of the Obama White House, few compare to the young Obama family introducing their new dog Bo to the press. There were Malia and Sasha chatting about their new pet on the South Lawn. There was the first lady on her knees petting the new addition to the family. There was the commander in chief jogging in his suit alongside a Portuguese water dog.

“Puppy me!” urged Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s Daily Show, as a respite to the president’s wonkish economic speech. Cue pictures of Obama running with his new dog, as Stewart applauded like a seal. “I really want to see the moment where he has to stop and pick up that dog’s shit. My guess is even that he will pull off in an elegant manner.”

Despite the iconic images that emanate from the White House each week, there is no Reaganesque Michael Deaver inside the West Wing.

You could be forgiven for thinking that the Obama White House is the most masterful image-making machine in politics since the Reagan era. And you’d be half right.

Despite the iconic images that emanate from the White House each week, there is no Reaganesque Michael Deaver inside the West Wing. While the president has two message guys in his inner circle – chief strategist David Axelrod and press secretary Robert Gibbs – neither of them are what you might call image-conscious, trading in words more than pictures. Their personal images underscore that point—Axelrod’s wardrobe in particular serving as a running joke inside the Obama campaign; he only started to wear a suit and tie on entering the White House—burnish that fact.

Rather, the most memorable images are often the result of opportunism and the projection powers of one Barack Obama. And the place where image control is a more disciplined business is the East Wing, among Michelle Obama's staff.

The back-story to Bo’s rollout is more revealing than you might expect, reflective of the ad-libbed nature of Obama’s image-making and the people who shape that image. Up until the moment of the press call, there was to be no first family in attendance. According to a senior White House aide, the initial plan was for just a staffer to walk “Bobama” in front of the cameras.

Even when the president and first lady decided to take the lead, there was no plan for their daughters to join them. Malia and Sasha wanted to take part themselves at the last minute. There were certainly no plans for the president to run with his dog across the South Lawn. It turns out that the memorable images came from the Obamas themselves, not their handlers.

Why the sensitivity and limited plans from the staff? One explanation lies in the painful experience of last July 4th, when the family sat down with NBC’s Access Hollywood for an interview. It was Malia’s 10th birthday and the family was feeling relaxed after a day of parades, hula-hoops and picnics in the small town of Butte, Montana. That was when the family let down their guard. The TV crew attached microphones to the Obama girls, saying innocently that they were just looking for some ambient sound like a laugh or sigh in response to their parents.

Instead interviewer Maria Menounos turned the questions to the girls and they jumped right in, delivering enough exclusive material to spin the footage over several nights of TV.

As his daughters engaged in the unscripted interview, Obama shot several angry glares at his staffers off camera. He finally wrapped up the interview when Menounos began to push the girls to get a pet dog, offering herself as their dog trainer, and warning them about the difficulty of dealing with medical problems at the rear end of dogs. Obama asked the girls to leave before a subsequent magazine interview and made his displeasure known to his staff over the next several days.

The lessons of Access Hollywood were only half-digested. Inside the White House, Obama’s aides have taken a hard line against press questions about the girls’ friends, schedules, habits and interests. As much as possible, the president wants to protect his children and their privacy from enormous worldwide attention.

Still, there is a gray area that remains unresolved. The family has posed for magazine photo shoots together and released official photos of the first day at school. Unscripted moments can take place—if and when the first family decides to break its own rules. And judging by the coverage, they can provide some of the most memorable images of this young presidency. The Obamas are still trying to find a comfort zone between total exclusion and limited access.

Their normal state of affairs is more, rather than less, restricted. Team Obama has never been afraid to confront and control the media. From day one of the presidential campaign in February 2007, it could command a large planeload of reporters and cameras. On that first weekend trip to Iowa, more than two years ago, Obama berated the press for focusing more on a photo of him in a black swimsuit than, say, his position on healthcare or the war in Iraq.

Such a focus on image is not surprising for a president whose best-selling books are a memoir and a personal prescription for what ails politics, and whose “No Drama” persona was perhaps best burnished during the campaign by his cool, casual poses on the covers of Rolling Stone and GQ. More eye-opening: the real discipline—and arguably the real success—lies in the East Wing, with the first lady’s staff. Day-to-day message control for the family lies with Michelle Obama’s press office, especially with communications director Camille Johnston, who used to work for Tipper Gore, and press secretary Katie McCormick Lelyveld, who performed the same job through the long campaign.

Sometimes Michelle Obama’s image-making is effortless. Her much-publicized clothes for her European tour were selected by her long-time stylist Ikram Goldman, who owns a boutique in Chicago.

Sometimes the image-making is an intensive effort. Michelle’s team expended enormous energy fending off hostile stories through the election. Some were factual, such as her comments about being proud of her country for the first time. Some were laughably false but still damaging, such as the unsubstantiated rumor that she had used the word “whitey.”

The results, whether intentional or accidental, are impressive. Michelle Obama has an approval rating that eclipses her popular husband. According to a recent Gallup poll, the first lady has a positive rating of 72 percent and a negative rating of just 17 per cent. The president reaches 69 per cent positives and 28 percent negatives.

Those numbers place her at Laura Bush levels of popularity just a few months into the White House. For someone whose frowning face used to accompany unflattering stories in conservative magazines, that is an image worth framing.

Richard Wolffe is an award-winning journalist and political analyst for MSNBC television. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine, traveling with the candidate and his inner circle from his announcement through election day, 21 months later. He is now writing a book about the Obama campaign, entitled Renegade: The Making of a President, to be published by Crown in June 2009. Before Newsweek, he was a senior journalist at the Financial Times.

from the daily beast: HERE
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My Morning Jacket: Highly Suspicioius


INCREDIBLE
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KID CUDI, KANYE WEST, COMMON, LADY GAGA... I POKER FACE craaazy

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CROWN CITY ROCKERS: SIDESTEP

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Honda creates the first "Terminator"


Honda thinks up mind-controlled robots
A video of the robot mind control system shows a user being shown a card with a picture of a hand on it. After pondering his hand, the command from the user's brain is then transferred to Asimo, which acknowledges the request by raising its robotic limb. Thankfully, users are not required to wear Crocs.
(Credit: Honda)
We're not just moving toward the day when robots can do everything for us. We're apparently moving toward the day when we can just think about what we want done, and get it (almost) presto.
Japan's Honda Research Institute and precision-equipment manufacturer Shimadzu on Tuesday demonstrated a rather mind-boggling technology that lets humans control a bot through thought alone--thus taking the pesky button pressing, voice commands, and remote controls out of the equation.

The system uses a black helmet fitted with sensors to measure brain activity corresponding to thought.
(Credit: Honda)
But don't start trying to telepath your Scooba into writing your doctoral thesis just yet. For now, researchers are focusing on getting the latest version of Honda's Asimo humanoid bot to perform simple actions like raising an arm or leg.
The system involves a helmet full of electroencephalography and near-infrared spectroscopy sensors that monitor electrical brainwaves and cerebral blood flow, signals that alter slightly during the human thought process. The robot controller thinks of one of a limited number of specific gestures it wants from Asimo, which has been fitted with a Brain Machine Interface.
The data is then analyzed on a real-time basis to distinguish what the user imagined and transmitted wirelessly to the bot, which makes corresponding movements.
Researchers in Tokyo showed a demonstration video of the system in which a user is shown a card with a picture of a right hand on it. After the user thinks about his right hand, the command from the user's brain is then transferred to Asimo, which acknowledges the request and raises its own right robotic limb.
Unfortunately, the scientists did not demo the technology live due to what they said were space constraints and concerns about possible distractions to the person's concentration--presumably in the form of blinding flashbulbs and the stunned faces of onlookers.
Honda nonetheless says tests of the system have produced results with 90 percent accuracy.

-CNet
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THE WORLD IS... YOURS?

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London's own Adele: Chasing Pavement

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Iron Man v Bruce Lee

Canadian filmmaker Patrick Bolvin presents a rather well done one minute video, which images a fight between Bruce Lee and Iron Man.
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Mr Hudson: There Will Be Tears

He might not sell the most, if any records right now, but this guy is one of the best artists on this earth.

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TUPAC TUESDAY: picture me rollin

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MOBB DEEP MONDAY: SHOOK ONES PT. 2

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STEEZ-TASTIC: CHIDDY BANG... SOONER OR LATER


THESE GUYS ARE EXTREMELY INTRIGUING.  Chiddy Bang is a new group from PHILLY.  They are providing all their music for free right now.  CHECK THEM OUT YOU WONT REGRET.  SOONER OR LATER IS FABULOUS.
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STEEZY: Nike Air Tech Challenge Hybrid

Nike combines Aggassi's entire career of style to create these ATCs.   BUY HERE
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Pegleg produced OPENING CEREMONY ish

New Opening Ceremony ish available at online store HERE
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new UBIQ: Fatima Mid

New colorways in UBIQ's classic Fatima... available HERE
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Copacabana Club - Just Do It

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Ryan Leslie: I-R-I-N-A

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G.O.O.D Music presents KID CUDI: SuperBoo

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PEEP: World Famous San Francisco "Bush Man"

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Barry O to the Naysayers

"I realize there are those who say these plans are too ambitious to enact," Obama said. "To that I say that the challenges we face are too large to ignore. I didn't come here to pass on our problems to the next president or the next generation — I came here to solve them."
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You Know Prison is Big Business When...

Criminal correction spending is outpacing budget growth in education, transportation and public assistance, based on state and federal data.

States have shown a preference for prison spending even though it is cheaper to monitor convicts in community programs, including probation and parole, which require offenders to report to law enforcement officers. A survey of 34 states found that states spent an average of $29,000 a year on prisoners, compared with $1,250 on probationers and $2,750 on parolees. The study found that despite more spending on prisons, recidivism rates remained largely unchanged.


From the NYT.
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BRUNO: Sacha Baron Cohen's genius lives on



Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, 'Bruno,' premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas this past week.  Anyone stupid enough to get fooled this often by the brilliant Cohen deserves the public humiliation this film should bring.  If you were nervous whether the follow-up to Borat could live up to the hype, the following reviews should alleviate your fear:
"A jaw-on-the-floor wow. Sacha Baron Cohen has done it again, delivering another WMD slam dunk of hysterically subversive mocku-comedy. The film's take-no-prisoners approach was breathlessly funny, but no doubt some will ask: Has Sacha Baron Cohen gone too far?" -- MTV
"To the say the material was funny is a laughable insult itself. This brief look at Bruno quite possibly promises a more raucous laugh than Borat, which is no small feat. It may just redefine outrageous and will probably outdo Borat." -- First Showing
"It was hilarious, envelope-pushing as always, but with Cohen's talent to layer it with some real hard looks at who we are as a people and a commentary on how people really act." -- AICN
"What we saw was brilliant. I can’t wait to see the rest." -- Cinematical
"You'll laugh and groan in all the right places, but it will never not feel familiar. It's funny deja vu, but it's still deja vu." -- Hollywood Reporter
"If you're a 'Borat' fan and were worried that Cohen had lost the anonymity necessary to dupe stereotypical Americans with humorous results, rest assured 'Bruno' is hilarious." -- FSR
"While the screening was funny and surprising, it did not pack quite the same punch as one’s first exposure to 'Borat'. So far, these 'Bruno' scenes lacked the truly subversive bite that made 'Borat' both outrageous and thoughtful, playing it safe rather than really pushing the limit." -- Los Angeles Times
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Video of the Day: Sesame Street Explains Madoff Scandal