YouTube.com is my latest online obsession.
I have been watching clips from simpler times when people had spines, balls, and guts.
Whether it's the late Frank Zappa on Crossfire blasting the PMRC, or Arthur Lee and Love on American Bandstand in 1967, or Prince's guitar solo from the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awards ceremony, or even Fear playing Saturday Night Live in 1981, you can find some real chestnuts there. Videos, clips, amateur home movies and rare footage... it's all there.
Current stuff gets passed around as well, such as Stephen Colbert's hilarious roast of President Bush at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
This is the critical mass peak here. This is where the balance shifts. Biting satire with teeth bared, fangs ready to sink in.
One well-delivered joke holds more real truth than that feeble beast the media likes to trot out as "the truth".
True comedy hurts.
This is the Court Jester making fun of the tyrranical king... only this is not a kingdom. This is a democracy, and in a democracy everybody is a target for ridicule.
Everybody.
Colbert got 'em, and he got 'em good.
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