Daniel Foster commented on the Obama Administration punishing New Jersey for insufficient compliance to the demands of the teachers’ union by disqualifying the state for hundreds of millions of dollars of federal education funds based on a trivial error in more that 1000 pages of paperwork.

This 5:29 video of Governor Chris Christie’s response is making him a national star and producing a wave of “Christie in 2012” enthusiasm.

Comedy ensues when Thoroughbred naming convention collides with coincidence in the 7th Race at Monmouth Park on Sunday, August 22, 2010.

2:19 video

Hat tip to Doug Mataconis.

We missed this 3:54 video of unmanly behavior from last week which went viral. The young lady says she broke up with him for other reasons than being struck by the ball he ducked.

Hat tip to John Hinderaker.

John then found the perfect counterexample. 1:36 video

Video remix of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) with Francis Ford Coppola’s dark and pretentious Apocalypse Now (1979).

6:40 video

A song celebrating the Greek debt crisis by Merle Hazzard. 3:24 video.

(Isn’t that Iris standing on Athena’s palm?)

From Greg Mankiw via Bird Dog.

Demonstrated by Holly Valence in DOA:Dead or Alive (2006): 0:46 video.

Hat tip to Dr. Mercury.

4:49 video

Our leaders in Washington in action and thought.

2:59 video

Hat tip to Ronald Nadel.

“[N]othing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”

–Albert Einstein on Alcohol Prohibition, 1921.

To understand that the War on Drugs is bad policy and is not working.

3:57 video

2:45 video

Hat tip to Amy Alkom.

Adidas made a rather amusing commercial using a re-edit of Star Wars bar scene.

This is the longer 2:10 version video, adding David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Ciara, Jay Baruchel, DJ Neil Armstrong (most of whom I have no knowledge of). I’ve seen a much shorter version on ESPN.

Poor Greedo.

Excellent Rube Goldberg 3:54 music video by Synn Labs

Hat tip to classmates Fred Karp & David Larkin.