Best use of a Knife song, 2007 edition.

DICK CHENEY SPEAKING IN 1994, ON THE INEVITABLE DANGERS OF INVADING IRAQ.

What impresses me most about this video is how quickly and easily the words just roll right off his tongue, almost like he actually believes what he is saying.

From the Jelly NYC McCarren Park Pool Party,Ted Leo show, August 12, 2007.

According to the good people at The Daily Swarm, AT&T has engaged in "a handful of cases" of political censorship on its live streams of some major U.S. music festivals this year. The most high profile case involves anti-Bush lyrics Pearl Jam peppered their set with at Lollapalooza in Chicago.

Now might be a good time to go over the history of AT&T and the consolidation of American media, courtesy of Stephen Colbert:

Also, have you ever tucked your baby in from a phone booth? You will! (What?!?!)

We've all heard the Palms Out Sounds sample breakdown. Here it is in a far more efficient manner.

The Reactor

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a new advertisement for the French luxury label Louis Vuitton.

This morning, we learned that the New York Times spent upwards of five weeks
stalking NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg outside his Upper East Side home in an effort to learn whether he really does in fact take the subway to work every day.

Apparently he doesn't. At least he sort of doesn't. According to the report, the Mayor actually has two large ethanol powered Suburbans idling outside his home, which then drive him past two 6 (local) stations and then drop him off at the 59th Street express.