Okay, I admit I’m a bit slow when it comes to picking up pop trends and memes, but I only just discovered BadLipReading.com last night, and was thoroughly entertained for at least twenty or more minutes. The joke is exactly what it says it is, but funny stuff.

Above is BLR’s latest, a bad lip reading of Herman Cain. But while it’s the videos of Republican candidates that seem to be getting BLR a lot of attention recently, the music videos are downright stunning, if only for the amount of work BLR’s one-man team puts into his one-joke schtick, writing and producing entirely new songs to mash on top of the existing video. In fact, BLR’s music to “Dirty Spaceman” (after the jump) is arguably at least as listenable as will.i.am and Nicki Minaj’s original “Check It Out,” and the random BLR lyrics don’t even make much less sense.

It’s not really parody, per se. It’s an art form unto itself.

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  4. Prescient article from 1996:

    Time for a Wealth Tax?

    The current tax system in the United States leaves these vast differences in wealth and power largely untouched. Whereas a majority of advanced industrial countries — including those with high savings and growth and low levels of inequality — provide for a direct annual tax on household wealth holdings, the United States does not. It may be time to reconsider. Because wealth is so highly concentrated, a wealth tax — paid principally by wealthier Americans — would be a gain for equity; because wealth inequality is tied to unequal political power, a wealth tax could make the country more democratic; and because wealth concentration is growing, a large political coalition might be prepared to endorse it. With debate on the deficit currently dominating American politics, a wealth tax would help to close the budgetary gap without visiting the costs on those who can least afford them.

    http://bostonreview.net/BR21.1/wolff.htm…

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