There’s something wintry in the high clear vocals by Peter Auty for Howard Blake’s “Walking In the Air” from the 1982 animation The Snowman. I’ve cued up the four minute portion for this song, but for those who are curious, after the excerpted clip plays, the entire animation can be viewed by clicking on the “replay” button in the lower-left corner of the YouTube frame. [Read more…]
BeauSoliel – Papa St. Nick (Is Comin’ Up the Bayou) | Video Worth Watching
How about a little spicy fare for the Christmas holiday. Here’s the Cajun group BeauSoleil with a tune about Papa St. Nick. He’s got a mountain of toys on a red bateau. Papa St. Nick is comin’ up the bayou! [Read more…]
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’ Crosses the Pond, Opens in London | Video Worth Watching
In celebration of Opening Night on Thursday, December 21, the #HamiltonLDN company created a digital #Ham4Ham mashup of a few of their favorite UK and Hamilton songs! Arrangement: Richard Beadle. #RiseUp [Read more…]
A Preview of What Your Conservative Relatives Will Be Freaking Out About Over the Holidays, Courtesy of Fox and Friend | Video Worth Watching
Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal gives us a “heads up” about what to expect our conservative relatives to be freaking out about during the holiday get-togethers. It’s a sneak peek courtesy of Fox News, or as Chris Hayes of All In prefers to call it, Trump TV. Hint: it has to do with a threat to Trump’s reign, er, term in office, and the FBI is involved. [Read more…]
The Republican Lie About Debt Revealed | Video Worth Watching
All In’s Chris Hayes explains why we shouldn’t believe Republicans who say they care about debt. After pushing fiscal austerity under President Obama, stalling the recovery, Republicans abandoned debt concerns to pass their tax bill. In fact some have become so emboldened as to go on record with their duplicity. The New York Times quotes Representative Mark Walker (R-North Carolina) stating that “It’s a great talking point when you have an administration that’s Democrat-led. It’s a little different now that Republicans have both houses and the administration.” Could it be any clearer? [Read more…]
A Tuesday Darrell Issa Protest: Time Lapse | Video Worth Watching
What does the “longest running weekly protest against a US congressman the USA” look like? Look no further. What began back on December 20, 2016 with a few dozen activists, is now celebrating its one year anniversary! It is a weekly event of 300+ unpaid protesters who show up outside of Issa’s Vista office to protest against Darrell Issa, Trump, and the GOP agenda. Here is a time-lapse view of one such event. [Read more…]
Revisiting Japanese Internment on the Anniversary of ‘Korematsu v. United States’ | Video Worth Watching
On December 18th, 1944 the U.S. Supreme Court in deciding against Fred Korematsu, upheld the constitutionality of President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19th, 1942. The order designated certain areas as military zones from which those of Japanese ancestry could be excluded. The court ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Order did not explicitly address the issue of how the order was implemented—the incarceration of those excluded—but the practical effect was to permit the internments of those targeted by the order. Constitutional scholars now consider the Korematsu decision to be in the category of Dred Scott v. Sanford and Plessy v. Ferguson decisions as examples of egregious Supreme Court judicial errors. [Read more…]
Happy Birthday Indivisible! Celebrating One Year of Citizen Activism | Video Worth Watching
Happy Birthday Indivisible! The Indivisible Guide first appeared online as a Google Doc on December 14, 2016. The Guide sparked a movement and the rest is history. Check out the brief anniversary video to get a flavor of some of the actions and impact this movement has had. [Read more…]
Toko Telo – Relaza : A Madagascar Melody | Video Worth Watching
The group Toko Telo (group of three) brings together a trio of musical stars from Madagascar: D’Gary, Monika Njava and Régis Gizavo. From the YouTube page notes:
Relaza
(Régis Gizavo)
Semi-autobiographical, this song tells of Relaza, who comes from a big family. Among 15 children he’s the eighth. The word has a second meaning: enemy. But Relaza’s no enemy, he’s nice to everyone. [Read more…]
Roy Zimmerman – ‘Vote Republican’ | Video Worth Watching
This number is a bit dated, but it’s uncanny how well it has aged. The names of the politicians mentioned are a tip off, but by judicious substitution with contemporary characters it is surprisingly (sadly) still topical. The body politic successfully dodged the bullet on the occasion of the introduction of this song. We were not so lucky this last presidential election and we must now deal with the aftermath. [Read more…]
ALS Sufferer Fighting GOP Tax Bill: ‘I Don’t Know How Many Birthdays I Have Left’ | Video Worth Watching
“I don’t know how many birthdays I have left.” Ady Barkan, whose video of him challenging Sen. Jeff Flake to vote on his principles and oppose the current GOP tax bill recently went viral, was interviewed on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes. He noted that the current tax proposal, if enacted, will trigger $400 billion in Medicare PAYGO cuts over 10 years. “I paid into Medicare just like all of us pay in. You know, every two weeks we make a commitment to one another and to our society that we’re going to protect each other in case tragedy strikes. And the Republicans are saying, ‘Uh uh, Ady, you don’t get that Medicare Disability that you paid for because Donald Trump Jr. needs a tax cut for his real estate developments and my hedge fund buddies on Wall Street they need a tax cut too.’ So I think that’s not OK and I’m trying to do what I can to fight it.” [Read more…]
When Is It a Good Time to Talk About Gun Safety? The Sandy Hook Elementary School Mass Shooting – Five Years and Counting … | Video Worth Watching
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. So, is today a good time to talk about gun policy? Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) interviewed on CBSN: “We have to be talking about policy change every single day in this country or we’ll never end up doing anything about the 90 people a day who die.”
Vox.com has a site which tracks gun violence and mass shootings since Sandy Hook. The site includes an interactive map displaying the dates and locations of mass shootings since Sandy Hook. [Read more…]
