https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMiQQye7vJo

“Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you’re the cause of all of this. I think you’re evil. EVIL!”

[HuffPo, via BobCens]

Update: Four Disappearing YouTube Links later, we’ve given up chasing copies that haven’t been removed. Enjoy the version at Gawker, which isn’t afraid of hosting its own theft.

Writes the choreographer in a program note, “If we all cooperate to achieve our goals, we can share in their meaninglessness.”

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Let us tell you why this video works. This video works because it’s the closest thing we’ve seen of its kind to a B. Kliban drawing. That is why this video works.

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Title: “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”

Author: Elizabeth Kolbert

Rank: 6

Blurb: “Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.”

Review: “Humans pushing other species off the brink is nothing new.”

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Footnote: Meanwhile, as Pareene observes, Meet the Press this morning features a “debate” over climate change between “a professional children’s entertainer and a Republican member of Congress.” The world is Rome, and we are all Nero.

The Sixth Extinction [Amazon]

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One moment you’re touching the sky, the next moment you’re wallowing in a pigsty. If you’ve ever wondered what a fall from grace really looks like, wonder no more.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG5YcGSE1qI

We suppose we should be Distressed! at the (apparent) danger this freewheeling Russian daddy subjects his child to, although given the limited dashcam view, for all we know they’re alone in an empty parking lot the size of Siberia.

But watch the kid’s face. We haven’t looked like that since we rode the Hamster Wheel at Belmont Park with a fellow Stinquer last summer.

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