Month: <span>November 2004</span>

This is one of the funniest segments ever on the Daily Show: Birds of a Feather is an exposé on gay penguins at the Central Park Zoo.

The segment starts out:

Dr. Dan Wharton of the Central Park Zoo: “We have penguins who have formed a very strong pair bond, and they are the same sex.”

Samantha Bee: “Gay penguins?”

Dr. Wharton: “It’s very, very common in all zoos, and again in nature to see homosexual behavior.

Samantha Bee: “Aah, just because it happens in nature, does not make it natural.”

[audience laughs]

Dr. Wharton: “Um, I think by definition, it actually does.”

It only gets funnier — seriously. Watch the video here. [4’39”, 11.3MB]

Politics

Lt Col Gareth Brandl as quoted by BBC News: “The enemy has got a face. He’s called Satan. He lives in Falluja. And we’re going to destroy him.”

So much for not making the war in Iraq into a religious crusade. But we already knew this…

[via John Robb]

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This American Life‘s Jack Hitt did a story this weekend on voter fraud in the Presidential election.

Most telling is the fact that, at least of the incidents we know about, the fraudulent efforts made by Bush supporters, in some cases paid for by the RNC itself, have resulted in criminal convictions, and a substantial change in the actual vote.

On he other side of the fence, the Democrats efforts haven’t, as far as we know, led to any change in the vote counts themselves. As the piece points out, with new ID laws and signature checks, even if you’re registered 35 times, that doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to vote 35 times…

Listen to the piece here. [MP3, 14’55”, 3.3MB]

If you feel like someone tried to interfere with your right to vote, call the Election Protection Coalition hotline: 866-OUR-VOTE.

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