Caution: DO NOT DRINK MILK WHILE WATCHING THIS VIDEO. You have been warned!

Via The Poor Man Institute.

Picked this one up over at Calculated Risk; too good not to share.

Kenyan afropop for Obama by Orchesta Virunga!

Obama Ubarikiwe (vocal remix) – Orchestra Virunga

Samba Mapangala, East Africa’s most beloved singer, recognizing how much Africans love Barack Obama and how proud Kenyans are of Obama’s Presidential candidacy, has released a song in his honor: “Obama Ubarikiwe.”
The title translates as “Obama Be Blessed.” The new Swahili lyrics say: “There’s a new leader in America. Let’s applaud him. We wish you long life. Do a good job for us. Viva Obama!” The song continues: “Obama, leadership is a gift from God, and you have it. Please help to bring peace, change and hope to all Americans and all the world. We love you!”

Info, video, downloads here.

I want to live in a dome house! I think…

From the pretty darn cool green-blog Inhabitat.

Food writer Michael Pollan has a terrific article in last week’s New York Times Magazine, where he outlines the food-related policy challenges facing the incoming U.S. president. In his opening, he notes a startling fact about the energy consumed in the industrial agriculture process:

chemical fertilizers (made from natural gas), pesticides (made from petroleum), farm machinery, modern food processing and packaging and transportation have together transformed a system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used into one that now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food. Put another way, when we eat from the industrial-food system, we are eating oil and spewing greenhouse gases. This state of affairs appears all the more absurd when you recall that every calorie we eat is ultimately the product of photosynthesis — a process based on making food energy from sunshine. There is hope and possibility in that simple fact.

I think his point would be clearer if he kept his numbers in the same order, though, like this: in 1940, the system produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy used; today, it produces 0.1 calorie of supermarket food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy used.

You know the country has reached a cultural high when high school cheerleaders are staging mock executions at pep rallies. Maybe Sarah Palin can hire them to perform at her hate rallies?

One student at the school felt it was totally inappropriate and spoke out against it on ABC News.

Parasailin’ with Sarah Palin!

You know times are tough when GE’s quarterly profit is a paltry $4,310,000,000 (that’s over four billion dollars for the innumerate)!

Poor General Electric’s shareholders! Their company’s profit has dropped to only $32,000 per minute in the last quarter!

I guess this really is a financial disaster!

Homer discovers that the electronic voting machine is rigged: “This doesn’t happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not America!”

Nice Robert Indiana remix I found in Brooklyn.