This video on the 22cd amendment to the constitution could only exist on the internet. It’s still pretty awesome though. (via Kottke)
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“We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. - from an article about interrogation techniques used by the US in WWII. (via Digg)
WTF? Youtube video from CSPAN talking about pesticide testing on infants … here in the US … right now. (Via Digg) I thought it was a hoax until I watched the video.
A journalist asks a simple question that stumps a congressperson. This video is worth watching even though it’s incredibly awkward.