George Carlin - Life is worth losing.

This album is infamous for his "Owners of America" skit, wherein he spends a portion of his mic time explaining the way America works within a range of "wealthy business interests, that control everything and make all of the important decisions."

1. "A Modern Man"
2. "Three Little Words"
3. "The Suicide Guy"
4. "Extreme Human Behavior"
5. "The All-Suicide TV Channel"
6. "Dumb Americans"
7. "Pyramid Of The Hopeless"
8. "Autoerotic Asphyxia"
9. "Posthumous Female Transplants"
10. "Yeast Infection"
11. "Coast-To-Coast Emergency"

George Carlin - Life is worth losing.


Thnx for the jokes.

Definition of stupidity.

A humorous examination of stupidity in contemporary American culture, covering: the effects of television and mass media on the American intellect; the "dumbing down" of American culture; the popularity of Steve-O and Jackass; the role of religion in willful stupidity; the identifaction of many Americans with George W. Bush; the evolution of such concepts as "idiot" and "moron."

Features: Bill Maher, Noam Chomsky, George W. Bush, Mark Crispin Miller and many others. Note: a 30 second delay appears before the video starts.

Stupidity by Albert Nerenberg.

Penn and Teller Bullshit - Breast Hysteria.

Investigates societal attitudes towards women's breasts, supports public breast-feeding and recognizing flashing as free speech.

Penn and Teller Bullshit - Breast Hysteria.

History of Oil.

Rob Newmans stand-up comedy routine on Peak Oil.

History of Oil.

Laughing with Hitler.

This documentary looks at the clampdown on satire and other undesirable comedians as the Third Reich grew in power. The plight of specific groups (or "art") tends to get lost in the scale of the much bigger human cost of WWII. However here the film looks at how satire and jokes at Hitler's expense were encouraged to some degree as he came into power but gradually anything deemed "subversive" was squeezed out and telling such jokes gradually became more and more dangerous.

We hear about German comedians who are sentenced to hard labour in camps or even death as punishment for making jokes. This is recalled with well chosen recollections from a couple of people involved in the period and it serves to only make things worse by not being at all surprising.

After this the film explores the general sense of humour on the street as the war started to turn back against German cities and civilians, where understandably there was a certain amount of gallows humour. Throughout the film the jokes are recreated by two German comedians.

Laughing with Hitler.

Julia Sweeney - Letting go of god.

Julia Sweeney says she was a "happy Catholic girl" when, one day, she walked into church and signed up for a Bible-study course. "What an eye opener that was!" she says. "Next thing you know, I was on a quest for something I could really believe in.

I traveled to places like Bhutan, Ecuador, and my local Starbucks looking for answers. Would I embrace Buddhism? New Age pseudo-science? Was I a freak for feeling the way I did, or were there other people out there just like me? I was grappling with serious questions. But, somehow, a lot of the things that were happening to me seemed, well, funny."

Equally comedic and insightful, Letting Go of God is Sweeney's brilliant one-woman show about her struggle with her faith.

Julia Sweeney - Letting go of god.

Mark Steele lectures about Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 -- April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist.He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics. In popular culture the name "Einstein" has become synonymous with genius.

Mark Steele lectures about Albert Einstein.