The Daily Show and Colbert Report might be the most effective media watchdogs around right now. Night after night, they manage to satirize both the politicians and the media organizations who cover them with an acid tongue. As you may remember, Glenn Beck, one of their favorite targets (and my least favorite human beings), held a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of MLK's "I Have a Dream Speech" a few weeks ago.
Not to be outdone, last night, Stewart and Colbert announced a rally more or less in response to Beck's. Below, peep their announcements on their respective shows last night. Pretty funny stuff and from everything I've read, this thing is actually happening, though I think that their biggest challenge will be convincing people it's not a joke. Here's to hoping they get a solid turnout.
Yeah, I know its sort of backwards the unemployed one raising money for the one with the cushy law job. But I am a better person than Josh. That being said, Josh is in better shape than me. As such, he is doing a 75/100 mile bike ride to raise money to fight MS. Anyway, take two seconds, donate to the cause.
I made a donation and added an incentive donation if Josh manned up and did the full 100 miles and not the child's 75 mile ride. I encourage you to do the same. Alternative incentive donations that I recommend are:
- Vomit bonus - Bonus for recreating this with a fellow rider
- Bonus if he organizes a pack and yells at the people in the pack to speed up so he can properly draft - Stopping at the 50 mile marker and housing a glass of whole milk (which would also get him the vomit bonus) - Popping a wheelie as he crosses the finish line - Doing the ride on a unicycle
If you are not into having fun, a regular donation would be much appreciated, too.
Also, if we can get enough support, I am trying to make Josh live vlog the entire ride to see how he performs on our bonuses. Plus it would just be funny to see him ride around with a helmet cam.
Similarly amazing, albeit in a much more grotesque way, to Mike's post about the Arcade Fire project, is this project doing a form of time lapse photography on a double cheeseburger meal. I honestly can't stop wondering how long it will take for them to look inedible. Below is a clip that shows some scientist going Breaking Bad on a double cheeseburger to show how it digests in your stomach. Safe to say after this I'll be sticking to In'N'Out and Five Guys and praying some photographer/limey UK scientist doesn't get any bright ideas as to similar experiments with them.
