As some of you know, my significant other works at a film school.  This means she has access to lots of neat toys, most of which I am not allowed to use. But the other day GoPro sent her a Hero 2 (watch the movies at the site made with the damn thing). Students are using this tiny camera to make entire movies (as well as the Canon EOS 5D).

So we took it out of the box, I strapped it to my head, and walked around my 425 SF apartment to test it out. This is before I knew it recorded sound – I was sure you had to hook up a mic because it was so small. So you see my GF at the computer, the cat on the sofa, Battlestar Galactica on the TV, me straightening Chinese prints, an ukiyo-e print she found on eBay, my Lava Lite, and an unopened bottle of Bushmills I will crack if you come to visit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V000dlKpxQs

One of the most aggravating things about the “liberal” media is their claim that “both sides do it” – as if this somehow forgives the insane behaviors of the modern GOP. From David Gregory to David Brooks to Charlie Rose, this mantra is a Villager staple. Here are a few literally false equivalencies for you:

Remember when those Code Pink activists showed up at a Bush rally with semiautomatic weapons?

Remember when Marc Maron called Laura Bush a cunt on Air America?

Remember when that liberal activist blew up a federal building after Bush started the Iraq War?

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“Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant on Saturday, his office announced. A statement from the former vice president’s office said Cheney is now recovering in the Intensive Care Unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., outside of Washington.”  [CBS]

This creepy Santorum video is hidden – you have to have the link to find it – and the comments are disabled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DApjHZq9o7M

He really thought we wouldn’t find it?

This Super Bowl ad for the Fiat 500 Abarth had me at the moment she slaps him, but they decided this Super Bowl ad with Charlie Sheen for the same car was too hot for TV? Really?

She is Romanian model Catrinel Menghia, and she has a (probably fake) scorpion tattoo on the back of her neck. It’s the symbol for Abarth, Fiat’s tuning arm.

Remember Iraq? The Dear Leader’s little war?

Activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by the Moral Police in the country in the past month. The violent crackdown against “emo” Iraqi teenagers came after the Iraqi interior ministry declared them as “devil worshippers.”