The main reason I didn’t post much of anything last week on here was because last week was my week to take over the AP Government Class Blog. And given all of the crazy stuff that happened across the country last week, it was quite a lot of work to keep it going.

Anyway, if you’re interested, here’s links to each of the articles that I posted last week, which gives you an idea of what I was busy with, as well why I only blog about politics on my own blog once in a blue moon. It’s exhausting to do it full-time.

Monday, September 22
What is our Problem with Taxes?
Seven Modest Proposals for President Obama

Tuesday, September 23
McCain-Palin Maybe Not Suited for the White House… Says the Media?

Wednesday, September 24
GOP Campaign Tries to Get VP Debate Postponed
McCain Hides Back in Washington, Wants to Cancel Friday’s Debate
A Look at the Candidates You WON’T See During the Debates

Thursday, September 25
Letterman Responds to John McCain’s Campaign Suspension
Was McCain’s “suspension” Just an Attention-Getting Joke?

Friday, September 26
Jon Stewart’s Birdseye View of our Economy’s “Dive of Death”
Is Palin Losing It?
Open Thread: First Presidential Debate

Saturday-Sunday, September 27-28
The Candidates Take Da Bait, Round 1
Tying Up Loose Ends

Now that that’s over with, I’m hoping to start getting a bit more regular with my own blog here. Stay tuned…

Tags: AP Government, Aragon, Barack Obama, blog, Blogging, debate, economy, Hitchhiker's Guide to National Affairs, John McCain, Jon Stewart, political, Sarah Palin, School

Our news media is already difficult to follow when you’re listening to it normally, but what if you’re watching it somewhere without any kind of volume, voice, or sound for context. Then you get this hilarious result, which was exemplified by The Daily Show in this awesome sketch called News at the Gym.

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I may be kinda “out there” in the tech world, but I still have enough senses to smell something creepy when I see it, as was definitely evidenced a year ago when a special PreviewCast episode started talking about some strange thing for Second Life.

Well, the world gets creepier as last week, Congress apparently held hearings on these virtual reality “world” things–and weirder, the real hearing was apparently simulcasted on Second Life. Luckily for me, Jon Stewart considers this stuff to be as freaky as I consider it, and he even pulled out one or two of the degrading jokes that I’ve used for the past year on this segment to make fun of Congress actually caring enough to hold hearings on these things! Boy, I’m glad I’m not the only one with some good, common sense!

Tags: Congress, craziness, hearings, internet, Jon Stewart, online world, Second Life, The Daily Show, Video, virtual reality

Why do I, along with so many others, love The Daily Show? Because not only is it funny, but it actually gets through all the crap that takes place in our society, particularly during the election season. I would have posted this earlier this week (like BEFORE the March 4th primaries finished, perhaps) if I haven’t been so busy catching up on homework from my recent trip.

However, this has to be one of my favorite Indecision 2008 sketches yet so far this year, and I couldn’t resist posting it. It’s just got some of the best swipes at Clinton and Obama, and it actually takes a reasonable look at that ridiculous 3 AM-telephone ad (even I, the person who wakes up at extraordinarily early times of the morning each morning, wouldn’t be awake at 3 AM!).

And it’s a good thing that Jon Stewart mentioned that exception to the title, because she turned out to win the larger states after all. (Quite frankly, though I personally have a slight two-degree lean towards Obama, I really don’t like either Democratic candidate, so I’m holding out to see who gets selected.)

Anyway, enough with my blubber, time for Jon Stewart’s.

Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, election, Hillary Clinton, Jon Stewart, Ohio, primaries, Rhode Island, Texas, The Daily Show, Vermont, Video

This is a hilarious piece from The A Daily Show with Jon Stewart, from the January 15th show. A pretty interesting reflection on the status of big pharma in the 21st century.

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While the writers remain on strike, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have not been airing episodes, which is why I have been so much more productive these past two weeks. However, some of the striking writers themselves have produced an even-lower-budget-than-the-already-low-budget-Daily-Show Daily Show spoof which, in the same style of Jon Stewart, looks at the irony of the media companies NOT wanting to pay their writers, but who ARE trying to sue the pants off of YouTube and other people posting clips of their content online for incredibly inane sums of restitution. Actual Daily Show correspondent John Oliver also cameos in this spoof.

Hopefully the strike will be settled soon with negotiations that are favorable to the writers, but knowing the self-serving, uncontrollable greed past actions of the media companies, it may last awhile.

Tags: Daily Show, Jon Stewart, media, spoof, strike, Viacom, Video, writers, YouTube

Jon Stewart is awesome. I will never understand why a silly show like this can actually find and report the actual news of what’s going on while the rest of the US media acts like a big propaganda machine, but this clip of Jon Stewart covering Dave Petraeus’ Iraq Report has to be the best Daily Show clip I’ve ever seen.

Check out the video.

Tags: Daily Show, Dave Petraeus, funny, Iraq, Jon Stewart, media, News, Video, YouTube