PJ Media’s Andrew Klavan talks to PolitiChick Ann-Marie Murrell about Hollywood and the potential upswing in Conservative-principled films. He cites some encouraging trends, but says Hollywood still serves as a dream factory for the Left, glorifying radicals and rewriting history to present liberals in a better light.
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Remember only a month back when federal officials issued dire warnings of drastic cutbacks should the sequester budget stand? President Barack Obama predicted that belt tightening of up to $85 billion in 2013 would force brutal and devastating shutdowns of programs related to everything from vaccination to school lunches. The director of the National Zoo even told the Washington Post he feared he might have to shut down popular exhibits featuring lions and tigers.
Reporting from the suddenly mean streets of Washington, D.C., Reason TV’s Kennedy finds few members of the public impacted in the slightest by the sequester, and most of them agreeing that the federal budget needed a 2 percent trim.
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Robots will not only be more prevalent in the future, but also likely smarter than human beings. Economic professor Jim Miller looks at the future of artificial intelligence in an interview with John Stossel. H/T LibertyPen
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Joe Dan Gorman, Techmo Bowl Champion, offers a impassioned defense of traditional marriage, citing biological and social grounds that have prevailed for centuries. How arrogant for one generation to think it can overturn values forged over centuries since the dawn of civilization. Joe Dan enunciates his position in this Intellectual Froglegs.
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Jon Stewart’s support of Bassem Youssef after the Egyptian comedian got locked up for making fun of the president of Egypt was passionate and expected. What was unexpected, however, was a Twitter fallout between the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and Egyptian officials. The U.S. Embassy made the mistake of tweeting a link to The Daily Show‘s video, which angered Egyptian officials and Islamists. The embassy tried to correct the mistake by taking down its entire Twitter page. Tsk, tsk.
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A pirate’s lust for gold lands him in hot water on a seafaring vessel. The animators at Anomalia Labs put in some feverish hours to whip out this comic short in a mere 10 days.
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In a weird but entertaining conflation of different times and places, here is a parody of will.i.am’s “Scream and Shout” performed by the teddiefilms crew masquerading as characters from Les Miserables. Got that?
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It was 40 years ago that the first cell phone was invented, and they’re getting sleeker all the time — no cellulite. The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Bellini gives The Short Answer to these burning questions — Who made the first cell phone call and to whom? When did the phones start getting more trim and smart?
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Student loans are difficult to repay in a sluggish economy, and many recent graduates are struggling under considerable debt. One proposal is forgiving student loans, but Prof. Daniel Lin from American University in Washington DC argues that debt forgiveness does not resolve the underlying causes of rising student debt, and therefore cannot prevent future debt problems.
Instead of debt forgiveness, Prof. Lin suggests making student loans like other types of loans: dischargeable in bankruptcy. This places the burden on lenders to ensure that students are not taking more debt than they can handle. While it would lead to a reduction in the amount of loan dollars awarded and increase interest rates, these are natural incentives that encourage borrowers to be more careful right now, and in the future, which puts pressure on colleges and universities to control their costs. H/T Learn Liberty
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Have you heard of Alexander von Humboldt? Not likely. The geologist turned South American explorer was a bit of an 18th century super scientist, traveling over 24,000 miles to understand the relationship between nature and habitat. George Mehler details Humboldt’s major accomplishments and why we should care about them today. H/T TEDEducation
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