Please Don’t Vote
A cool video from www.declareyourself.com
Palin and Biden on Roe v. Wade
Can you imagine this person being in charge of appointing our next Supreme Court justice(s)?
I hope that Gov. Palin’s “debate bootcamp” is going well…
Our Favorite VP Candidate Strikes Again
Just when you think all of the highlights of Katie Couric’s interview with Gov. Palin have been released, a few more gems make their way to the Internet.
The follow clip includes a wonderful exchange in which Katie Couric asks the following - “And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world?”
The witty Gov. Palin stops, pauses, and then dramatically responds with the following - “Uhm… all of them…” and then continues mumble on incoherently about Alaska and how it is a “microcosm of America”.
Wow. I don’t really know what else to say.
Sing for Change Obama
Is there anything better than a group of children singing? Good stuff.
From the video’s description on YouTube:
Sing for Change chronicles a recent Sunday afternoon, when 22 children, ages 5-12, gathered to sing original songs in the belief that their singing would lift up our communities for the coming election. Light, hope, courage and love shine through these nonvoting children who believe that their very best contribution to the Obama campaign is to sing.
Sing for Change was a confluence of hard work, good will, and shared vision. Inspired by ideas raised at a grassroots Obama fundraiser, a music teacher, Kathy Sawada, and the children composed and rehearsed the songs in less than two weeks. Several musicians heard of the effort and volunteered to accompany the children. Parents and older siblings designed and provided the T-Shirts and the banner. There’s a first for everything, but rarely do so many firsts come together at once: for the children and their parents, this is their first performance, first video, first banner, and first involvement with grassroots work on a presidential campaign.
As Sunday approached, a neighbor volunteered a home. Production wizards got wind of the project and offered their help in recording it. The likes of Jeff Zucker, Holly Schiffer, Peter Rosenfeld, Darin Moran, Jean Martin, Andy Blumenthal, and Nick Phoenix rearranged schedules to participate. Holly Schiffer was able to get three High Definition cameras (Panasonic HVX250’s), and an AVID editing facility. When Jeff Zucker went to pick up the camera package, Ted Schilowitz happened to be there and offered a RED camera set up on a Steadi Cam.
What we accomplished in a few hours on a Sunday afternoon embodies the nature of the Obama campaign: its grassroots inspiration, its inclusiveness, its community building. People pitched in quickly for a cause that resonated with them. There were not many conditions: “Think this is a good idea? Want to help? Great. Sunday at 12:00.” At the heart of the project were 22 children and their music. The willingness of all involved to come together for them was a testament to our hope, unity, courage, joy and belief in the future represented by these children.
We are offering the video to everyone, the Obama campaign and all media with high hopes that we can all join together to Sing for Change.
Technical info: Running time = 3 minutes; Standard Definition and HD Broadcast quality
WE’RE GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD Music and lyrics by Lily Campbell, age 9
We’re gonna spread happiness
We’re gonna spread freedom
Obama’s gonna change it
Obama’s gonna lead ‘emWe’re gonna change it
And rearrange it
We’re gonna change the world.SING FOR CHANGE
Music and lyrics by Kathy SawadaNow’s the moment, lift each voice to sing
Sing with all your heart!
For our children, for our families,
Nations all joined as one.
Sing for joy and sing abundant peace,
Courage, justice, hope!
Sing together, hold each precious hand,
Lifting each other up;
Sing for vision, sing for unity,
Lifting our hearts to Sing!YES WE CAN
Music and lyrics by Kathy SawadaYes we can
Lift each other up
In peace, in love, in hope
Change! Change!sing…vote
Tina Fey does Sarah Palin
Though not quite as funny as the original, Tina Fey’s portrayal of Gov. Sarah Palin on this week’s Saturday Night Live is definitely worth a watch (even if it is over six minutes in length). Even if you don’t watch the whole thing, you should skip to the last thirty seconds and enjoy the hilarity.
Friday’s Debate In One Minute
The guys over at 23/6 have put together a hilarious video that cuts Friday’s debate down to one minute. These guys have some pretty material over at their site (though very left-leaning) - I encourage you to check it out at www.236.com.
Ladies and Gentlemen - Sarah Palin….(clap, clap…..clap)
Click on the image below for a great story from Politico noting a few instances of the brilliance of Gov. Sarah Palin caught on camera.
Our favorite of the lot is below.
Please tell me that you are kidding…
So…Sarah Palin is still claiming to have foreign policy experience because of Alaska’s physical proximity to Russia. Check out this gem from an article discussing Palin’s interview with Katie Couric, which is set to air tonight:
When Couric asked how Alaska’s closeness to Russia enhanced her foreign policy experience, Palin said, “Well, it certainly does because our … our next-door neighbors are foreign countries.”
Please tell me we are smarter than this. Click on the potential VP below to read the full story. Mind-boggling, simply mind-boggling.
Bitter Lawyer - Rope
BitterLawyer, one of our favorite new websites has posted another webisode, entitled “Rope” - which centers around one attorney’s inquisitiveness about another attorney’s “rope”.
We think that this webisode is much, much better than the previous BitterLawyer webisode - “The Gayholm Syndrome” - but we are still yearning for the good ole days and webisodes like “Typo” that we simply can’t watch without forwarding to all of our friends.
Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Our Favorite VP Candidate
Given the amount of incredibly biased articles that have been written about Gov. Sarah Palin in the last few weeks, we have been hesitant to post a large number of stories about the Vice Presidential candidate. However, a good friend forwarded us an article about Gov. Palin this morning that we thought to be post-worthy. The following passage really hit on something that many of us agree with:
The point to be lamented is not that Sarah Palin comes from outside Washington, or that she has glimpsed so little of the earth’s surface (she didn’t have a passport until last year), or that she’s never met a foreign head of state. The point is that she comes to us, seeking the second most important job in the world, without any intellectual training relevant to the challenges and responsibilities that await her.
As one of our good friends reminds us on a daily basis - “Is this really the right person to be holding the nuclear codes?”
Click on the Newsweek logo below for the full article.
Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin
Absolutely hilarious video from SNL this weekend.
Yeah, I feel totally comfortable with Sarah Palin negotiating with Putin…..
Obama & McCain - 5 second ads
Another funny Friday afternoon video for all -
Duke Sucks
A funny Friday afternoon video of Duke’s attorney arguing about how much Duke sucks.
Have a good weekend.
Double Standards?
Good stuff from John Stewart…
SNL - Celebrity Jeopardy
For your Friday afternoon - a few clips from one of the best sketches in the history of SNL.
Have a great weekend.
If They IM’d: the Republican VP losers
This is absolutely hilarious.
One of our loyal readers sent us a link to 23/6, a website whose slogan is “Some of the News, Most of the Time”. Based upon a quick click-through of the website, it looks like there is more than enough content for any interested reader looking to devote a few Chillable Hours to the site.
Perhaps the funniest thing we saw on the site (and on the web in the last few days) is the linked IM conversation between the Republican VP hopefuls. Good stuff. Well done 23/6, well done.
PTA and Close to Russia!?!
I mean, can we get a more qualified VP candidate?
In addition to touting Sarah Palin’s membership in the PTA as “executive experience”, Cindy McCain (and others) are noting Alaska’s close proximity to Russia gives Palin national security experience.
Wow. As mentioned below, please tell me that we are smarter than this.
PTA is “executive experience” - Really?
I didn’t want to post much about Sen. McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate, but after a few recent interviews of Sen. McCain I simply can’t resist.
In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Sen. McCain brags about Gov. Palin’s “executive experience” and notes the following:
“[S]he has had executive experience as governor, as mayor, as a city council member and PTA”
Really? Are you really touting Palin’s PTA experience as “executive experience”? Are you really offering to the American people that someone who has been the mayor and city council member of a city with fewer than 10,000 people has enough “executive experience” to be President of the United States?
I simply can not get over how ridiculous this statement is and that these are the thoughts of someone who hopes to become arguably the most powerful man in the world. C’mon Sen. McCain - you must be kidding.
Please tell me that we are smarter than this.
Click on the graphic below to read more about Sen. McCain’s thoughts that being on the PTA is “executive experience”.
Thanks Dad….er…Sen. McCain
It appears as if Sarah Palin, the recently selected republican vice presidential candidate, is celebrating her selection with a bear-hug from her father. [EDIT - it appears as if the older gentleman in the above photo is actually the republican’s presidential candidate, John McCain.]
I must admit that I was a little worried about Sen. McCain’s VP selection and the resulting ability of the republicans to secure undecided votes (including Hillary supporters), however, after sitting back and digesting this pick with a few people, I think I like it. After the pick, I quickly thought about a few ways that the selection of Gov. Palin might add a few votes to the republican tally:
1. Supports McCain’s lead argument against Sen. Obama - that he is “not ready to lead”.
Two years ago Gov. Palin was the mayor of a town of 6,000 people. I am fairly certain that there are more than 6,000 people working on my block right now.
2. She will bring a set of strong ethics to Washington.
Gov. Palin has a ongoing ethics investigation RIGHT NOW.
3. She will be able to upstage Sen. Biden in the VP debates.
I think my money is on Sen. Biden on this one.
4. She will pull some of the pro-Hillary Dems to vote for the republican ticket.
Gov. Palin is a very strongly ANTI-choice republican, that does not support a woman’s right to choose and is a true conservative that will not sway any of the PUMAs.
So…on second thought, well done Sen. McCain, well done. I can almost see Sen. McCain smiling with a smug “I know more than you” look on his face and telling republicans that his pick was great “strategery”.
Livin’ the Dream
The guys over at Bitter Lawyer put out a new webisode today, and while we generally find their stuff to be absolutely hilarious and spot on, we kinda think that this one was a tier or two below their normal work product. To put it in lawyer terms - this would definitely affect their bonus. We will be interested to see the blog entry related to the webisode explaining the real life events that inspired it, and are hopeful that it is funnier than the webisode. We are definitely huge fans of the site (and their webisodes), but feel like this one missed the mark. We must admit, we still can’t wait for the next one…
Throw Me!
Let us start by saying that we have no idea why games like are so addictive, but they definitely kept the crew here at Chillable Hours coming back again and again.
Much like the beloved Toss the Penguin games, Throw Me challenges you to throw a strange object as far as possible. After the initial toss, you can gain speed by hitting certain clouds and by hitting cranes at the bottom of the screen.
Our highest score so far is 75,000, which is tantalizingly close to putting us on the daily leaderboard.
One thing that we have become obsessed with is figuring out how high we can get our toss in the air. So far the highest we have gone is about 7,500 feet. At about 5,000 feet you see background that includes the words “Thor Gaming”, at about 6,000 feet you see background that says “Pretty High” and at 7,500 feet you see background that says “Almost There”.
Since we would compete over just about anything, we immediately want to know what “There” is in the “Almost There” background. Is there a ceiling? Is there something so unbelievably cool that it must be seen? Maybe…maybe not. But we have to know.
Please let us know if you find out - just leave it in the comments below.
A Facefull of Celebration
Great new video of Usain Bolt’s 100-meter victory at the Olympics.
Stryde Hax - The Man Who Started an IOC Investigation?
Did an online blogger/hacker finally persuade the IOC to look further into the ages of He Kexin and other Chinese Olympic gymnasts? Many people believe that Stryde Hax’s online blog did exactly that - on it, the blogger dug up previously posted information from the Chinese government regarding He Kexin’s age (indicated that she would be 14 now, not 16). Unfortunately, when Stryde clicked on a Google result, the target page had been curiously removed (duhn, duhn, duhnnnnnn). Thank goodness for cached pages….
For anyone wondering who exactly this Stryde Hax dude is, he describes himself on his website in the following way:
I am a consultant with the Intrepidus Group, a proactive security firm known for launching the first proactive anti-phishing service, phishme.com. I have a wide ranging security background, from reverse engineering to penetration testing. In my spare time, I find things on web servers that were never meant to be found.
This story is pretty damn interesting for anyone that has been following the Olympics - check it out via the link below.
Hello…. He Kexin? It’s the IOC - we would like to chat with you.
And from the completely obvious to everyone in the world file, comes a story regarding one of China’s gymnasts who appears as if she may be slightly younger than the minimum age for competition, which is 16. From the linked article:
The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into mounting allegations that Chinese authorities covered up the true age of their gold-medal winning gymnastics star because she was too young to compete.
I have had this conversation with a few different people and ultimately someone asks, why does anyone care how old the gymnasts are when they compete. Well, the official answer from the article is as follows:
The minimum age for female gymnasts was increased from 14 to 15 in 1981, and up to 16 in 1997, to protect the physical and mental health of young athletes.
Interestingly enough, Nadia Comaneci was only 14 when she won her first gold medal back in 1976. Click the photo below to read the article.
Bitter Lawyer - “The Interview”
As callback season is fast approaching in the world o’ law, we wanted to pass along another hilarious webisode from BitterLawyer.com.
Bitter Lawyer is quickly becoming one of our favorite sites on the net and we would encourage all of our readers to check out the site when the are looking to log a few Chillable Hours. While the webisodes on Bitter Lawyer are likely to be funny to most, anyone who has practiced corporate law at a “big firm” will be frighteningly amused. For a corporate lawyer - it just doesn’t get much funnier than Bitter Lawyer’s webisodes.
Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Sen. Joe Biden
Uhmmm….. I am not really sure this was very Vice Presidential.
Alicia Sacramone
Alicia Sacramone had a tough time at yesterday’s all-around competition at the Olympics - however, if the whole gymnastics thing doesn’t work out, she can always try out for the USA boxing team.
Check out this video of Alicia connecting with a left cross on some dude - DOWN GOES FRAZIER…DOWN GOES FRAZIER.
How prestigious is your law firm?
One of the annual publications that we always find to be interesting/hilarious/overly-relied upon are the Vault law firm rankings.
Well…you can all breathe easy now as the 2009 Vault rankings were just published.
While there has been much written about the waning usefulness of the Vault rankings, they remain a guide for many law school students trying to decide which law firm they want to bless with their presence during the upcoming summer.
The crew at Chillable Hours is not a huge fan of using the Vault rankings for anything other than acting snobbish toward others and have actually logged a good chunk of hours over at ConsusRankings.com, which has a huge and incredibly helpful database of law firm and law school rankings.
The takeaways from this post - (1) if you work at Wachtell you are much better than if you work at Cravath, and (2) visit ConsusRankings.com if you really are looking for a helpful way to compare law firms and law schools.
Boom Goes the Dynamite!
Sports Illustrated recently posted an excellent online article about two things that we absolutely love here at Chillable Hours - sports and You Tube.
The result was a hilarious collection of 25 must see sports videos from You Tube.
Our personal favorites are “Boom Goes the Dynamite” (number 4), “Awkward Sam Cassel Interview” (number 7), “Joe Namath really likes Suzy Kolber” (number 19) and “Classic Michael Jordan-Larry Bird commercial” (number 21).
Let us know your favorites in the comments section below and we will tell you why they are not as funny as our favorites.
W taking in the Olympics
I don’t know what everyone is talking about, he looks like a smart guy to me…
The Olympics and The Race
If you are like the crew here at Chillable Hours, you have likely become completely obsessed with the Olympics for the last few days. While we fully expected to be interested in seeing if Dara Torres could still win at 40 and watching the USA gymnastics teams compete for gold, we never expected to be entranced by semifinal action in men’s single badminton. There is just something about the Olympics that brings everyone around their television.
One moment that will surely live on for many Olympic cycles to come is last night’s men’s 4×100 freestyle relay. The French were favored and Michael Phelps needed a victory to keep alive any hope of winning 8 gold medals. To make it even more interesting, the French swimmer who would swim the fourth and final leg of the relay had done some pretty serious trash talking before the race - saying that the French would “crush” the USA relay team. Well….the same French swimmer had a full body-length lead when he jumped in the pool to swim the final leg of the relay last night and complete France’s “crushing” of the US team. Let’s just say it didn’t quite turn out the way he wanted.
As we use to say back home - “Don’t let your mouth write checks that your ass can’t cash.”
Well done guys, well done.
Feel The Beat
It’s Friday and we can’t wait for the weekend.
To kill a few Chillable Hours on this Friday afternoon, we have been playing Feel The Beat, a game in the mold of Guitar Hero, but without the guitar and the well-know songs. Feel The Beat is still a pretty darn fun game and we have been challenging our co-workers for the last few hours to see who can get the highest score before we cut out early for the weekend.
Bitter Lawyer - “Typo”
This is absolutely one of the funniest videos we have seen in a long time.
To say that the creator of this video is not a genius would be a 10b-5 violation were the statement in a public offering document.
Wow - lawyer humor at its finest. No wonder we drink… alone.
Trivia World
A loyal reader of the site - whitebreadforprez - sent us a link to Trivia World. I am not sure if “whitebreadforprez” also happens to be one of the creators of Trivia World (since it looks like the site just recently went live), but if so we want to congratulate him/her/it on a job well done.
Trivia World has two main games - the Trivia Table and Brain Ball. We played Brain Ball for a short amount of time, and it basically is a one-player game in which you try to answer trivia questions to rack up as many points as possible (a little boring for our liking).
On the other hand, we have become somewhat obsessed with Trivia Table and have been playing non-stop since receiving the link yesterday. Trivia Table is a trivia challenge game in which you virtually sit around a table with 1-8 other people and try to beat out other players across the Internet in a trivia challenge to the death (ok, not really, but players do get knocked out of the game after missing two questions).
The best part about Trivia World seems to be the prizes. The player with the highest score on Trivia Table this month wins a Wii. Since the site is fairly new, it seems as if any fairly enterprising person could play Trivia Table on a good amount over the next few weeks and win the Wii (before more and more people come to the site, making winning a little harder).
You do have to register - and yes, we too hate registering on sites to play - but it is a quick and simple email and password register.
Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Paris is Not Voting for McCain
While we loathe the ability of someone like Paris Hilton to become famous and earn a good living being Paris Hilton, we thought that the recent video from the guys at Funny or Die starring Paris was pretty darn funny.
We Miss Basketball Season
The crew at ChillableHours was VERY excited to see a little NFL football this weekend. However, we dearly miss our beloved basketball season and all the Dick Vitale greatness that comes along with it.
Thankfully, one of our readers sent us a link to a blog post entitled “20 Ways to Die Trying to Dunk a Basketball” to share with everyone. Thank you “scaliaisbalding” for the submission.
After looking at the photo below one may ask “Why is that young man chugging a beer while holding a whiffleball bat with a basketball at his feet?” Check out the number 7 way to die trying to dunk a basketball to find out.
Click below to watch Darwinism at its finest.
Jet Blue is Starting to Suck
Jet Blue is going to start charging for pillows and blankets? Really?
Click below to read more about Jet Blue’s brilliant idea to start charging passengers for a pillow and blanket. I see tray tables starting to be available for rent soon.
In an unrelated note and in response to a few reader emails - I do not know what is up with the “sementanks” advertisement on our homepage.
Obama - The Law School Finals
It seems that information about future-POTUS Obama’s time teaching at the University of Chicago Law School is all the rage lately.
Today the New York Times published another interesting article which contained a number of future POTUS Obama’s law school exams (and even a few answer keys). For some reason, reading past exams is a morbid curiosity of some of the former law students at Chillable Hours.
As we noted before, we think that most of this information is fairly interesting, as it gives readers some insight into Professor Obama before he became a Presidential candidate.
The Myth of Moderate Exercise
Thinking about logging some Chillable Hours exercising? Well, if you are, maybe you should consider logging more than 0.5 per day.
Click on the Time graphic below for the full story - however, the gist of the article is as follows:
“What has become increasingly clear, however, is that the conventionally accepted advice — 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity most days of the week — is probably insufficient to spur any real change in a person’s body weight.”
Ugh.
Sex Drive Movie Trailer
Are these guys still funny?
Obama at University of Chicago Law School
An interesting article in the New York Times today regarding future-POTUS Obama’s teaching style at the University of Chicago Law School. A good read for anyone looking to learn a little more about future-POTUS Obama that isn’t directly from a campaign’s headquarters.
VOTE!
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