I discovered this wonderful 20-minute anti-establishment comedy act by Alistair Williams. He covers everything from COVID mask mandates to toilets on state-sponsored trains. Hilarious! He's on our list of best libertarian comedians. … [Read more...]
Merdan Ghappar: Uighur Prisoner Sends SOS
Merdan Ghappar, a prisoner in one of China's notorious Orwellian "reeducation" camps was inadvertently given access to his cell phone. He quickly sent out this short video showing himself alone in a small cell, handcuffed to a bed, while propaganda broadcasts drone on in the background. He says nothing in the recording, likely so as to go undetected by guards. It's an … [Read more...]
Remy: Raise The Debt Ceiling Rap
Thanks to wildly out-of-control spending, Congress has had to raise the debt limit eighty times since 1960 -- yes, sometimes more than once a year. It's about to happen again, though there is the usual faux battle to go through first, in which the Republicans momentarily hold the line and then cave (though I have to say they seem to be putting up more resistance this time). For … [Read more...]
Censorship Run Amok: Covid and Twitter
In this short commentary, Censorship Run Amok, John Stossel shows not just how mainstream media was itself the source of disinformation it claimed to battle against, but that now that the cat is out of the bag they're just pretending that nothing happened. … [Read more...]
Covid Response Pitch Meeting: Harrison Hill Smith
This hilarious skit by Comedian Harrison Hill Smith reimagines the government's initial Covid response pitch meeting among experts. If you're wondering how authorities could have made their response so haphazard and contradictory, this is one scenario. h/t Instapundit … [Read more...]
Quantitative Easing Explained
The economist who coined the term "quantitative easing," Richard Werner, now says central banks are too powerful and irresponsible and that they're the ones actually causing inflation. Of course, some of us already knew that, but it's nice to see the professionals finally concur. This hilarious explanation of quantitative easing by two straight-talking cartoon-characters … [Read more...]
Stanford Prison Experiment: Original Footage
"Power corrupts" is an ancient theme, but it is sometimes forgotten that the maxim applies not just to powerful politicians but is also writ small in a thousand other situations. For anyone with power, the potential is there. In what has come to be called the Stanford Prison Experiment, researchers at Stanford University put this to the test by running an experiment in 1971 in … [Read more...]
Hollywood Hates You (Unless You Agree With Them)
Do the Oscars make you feel like Hollywood hates you? There's a good chance it does. In this short film for the FEE series Out of Frame, filmmaker Sean W. Malone tells how we got here. It wasn't always this way. … [Read more...]
Oscar Bait: Academy-Award Winning Trailer
The selection process for Academy Awards has become so formulaic that the term Oscar bait is now part of the English vocabulary. Google lists 1.7 million references to the term. Per Wikipedia: "Films seen as Oscar bait often have distinct characteristics. Lavishly produced epic length period dramas, often set against tragic historical events such as The Holocaust, are … [Read more...]
Government Bureaucracy Sketch: Jameson Notodofilmfest
An excellent short film from the Jameson Notodofilmfest, a Spanish short film festival, on what it’s like to deal with government bureaucracy. [3 min] Topics: Anti-Regulation … [Read more...]