Entertainment icon Rodney Dangerfield, who gained fame for his catchphrase, “I get no respect,” shows off his classic one-liners in “Rappin’ Rodney,” a musical number from one of his TV specials. The video became an MTV hit and one of the first Hot 100 rap records in 1983. Please join us on LOL every Tuesday for a stroll through the lighter side of life. — The Wickel
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Sally K. Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died today after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Ride, 61, journeyed into orbit on June 18, 1983 for a six-day flight on board the Space Shuttle Challenger. Here’s a look back at her historic achievement.
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In his one-minute “Save Us Chuck” radio spot, longtime game show host Chuck Woolery reflects on the month of June, when only 80,000 new jobs were created, yet 85,000 Americans applied for disability. Woolery opines that we’re in the midst of a disability crisis, noting, “It seems we’re injuring people 19 percent faster than we’re creating jobs.” H/T Capitalist Preservation
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PJTV’s Glenn Reynolds interviews David Horowitz, president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and co-author of The New Leviathan, subtitled “How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America’s Future.” The book lays bare the maze of liberal charities and foundations that spend millions of dollars influencing our elections, often secretly and without the checks and balances that apply to candidates’ campaign funds or even to outside PACs. As PJTV’s tagline for the interview ponders, “Why are the Democrats criticizing rich people while raising and spending millions to influence the elections? Are those on the left just hypocrites?” H/T Nice Deb
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Hey Rube Educational Films exposes the scourge of a nation: Catnip. Inquiring minds want to know: Is it a source for harmless kicks, or a potentially crippling addiction? Is it a tool to expand one’s consciousness, or a downward spiraling path that can eventually lead to insanity? H/T IMAO
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In a special report for Reason.TV, Ted Balaker draws parallels between the Great Depression and today’s Great Recession, the longest and deepest on record since the 1930s. Balaker interviews UCLA economics professor Lee Ohanian, whose research along with fellow UCLA economist Harold L. Cole has shown that FDR’s anti-market policies actually prolonged the Great Depression by seven years. And what about Obama’s policies? When the unemployment rate finally does improve will he receive credit for rescuing America from the Great Recession or blame for prolonging the crisis?
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Representing Australia, 19-year-old Michelle Jenneke warms up and then smokes her competition in the 100-meter hurdles during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona. Stormy will be cheering for the US team as the Olympics launches this week, but I’ll be honest: My allegiance might just veer toward Australia in the 100-meter hurdles. H/T Ghost of the Flea
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Does the federal government use proper science in setting nutritional standards and advocating healthy diets? How about influential organizations like the American Heart Association? Science writer Gary Taubes, author of Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It, says many nutritional falsehoods have been propagated over the years based on flimsy scientific data. Part of the problem, says Taubes, is that once the various institutions involved in public health have embraced a particular position, they’re loathe to ever admit they made a mistake. “Once you start giving advice, how do you pull back and say you were wrong?,” he asks. Watch his interview with Reason.TV’s Zach Weissmueller.
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Instead of ending poverty, the Great Society policies launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson backfired, causing poverty to become more pervasive and insidious. The reason: Johnson’s welfare programs weren’t designed to succeed, but rather to establish an entrenched entitlement system leading to greater dependence on the federal government for the benefit of a “parasitic political class.” Kevin D. Williamson outlines the arguments why this is so in his new broadside The Dependency Agenda, published by Encounter Books.
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We might never know what motivated James Eagen Holmes to go on a murder spree and shoot 70 patrons at a Colorado movie theater. Clearly, there are demons loose inside Holmes’ head, but can he recognize them? Rev. Fred Lawrence, the Methodist preacher who administered the last rites for Ted Bundy, said of the serial killer, “I don’t think even he knew how many he killed or why he killed them.”
Why mention Bundy in the same breath as Holmes? At least superficially, the two share some distinctive traits. Loners. Methodically calculating. Highly intelligent. And yet, capable of committing brazen, unhinged acts of violence, marked by a stunning degree of brutality and senselessness.
Bundy is now burning for eternity in Hell — the same fate that awaits Holmes. Here is Bundy’s last interview — a chilling incarnation of cold-hearted evil — given to homicide detective Robert D. Keppel a few hours before Bundy’s 1989 execution.
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