Late Night Video — Close Guantanamo

One of the benefits of being snowed in this week is that I've had a chance to catch up on some blog reading, and discovered that I had missed this really good video about missing the one year anniversary of the commitment to close Gitmo.

Late Night Video — Rahm Emmanuel Apologizes

The SNL version of Rahm Emmanue apologies, that is. This is likely NSFW, but strikes me as old school SNL -- taking a famous person's weaknesses, making them funny and using that the comment on a bigger picture. There is likely no chance that they could maintain this sharpness as a regular feature, but I liked this.

The Running of the Hypocrites

Which is really the only name you can give the Federal government's budget season opened by the release of President Obama's budget blueprint last Tuesday. The plan calls for letting the BushCo tax cuts expire (except for people making less than $250K), eliminating the tax subsidies for the oil and gas industry, raising taxes on hedge fund managers; and it calls for investments in public education and college, domestic energy production, the beginning of a fund to finance health care for the uninsured. It is a pretty strong plan (I do have some reservations about some of the energy initiatives) that begins to retilt the playing field back towards the middle class.

Late Night Video — Axe Ball Cleaner

First thing to know is that this is totally NSFW. Second thing to know is that this it totally NSFW. Third thing to know is that this is screamingly funny, which means you probably should not be watching this at work!