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leaving this after the fact which no one will read which is fine. I don’t want to fight. just want to put my 2 cents in. i do think they took a risk by doing all cgi, and it looked fake. I do think it was a bold move. I think peta gets criticized too much for being negative so a positive protest sounds like a good idea to me. i really can’t wait until videogum moves on from the ‘lets not be TOOO nice to animals’ theme. Videogum is my favorite blog and animal rights is my favorite cause. The cognitive dissonance is hurting my brain and my monkey heart.

Basically any logic that humans deserve better than animals because we are human and lets protect our genetically similar first is indefensible morally once you break it down into a serious of propositional arguments and look at the morality of those arguments and historically, WHO used them in other contexts, you will find yourself in no good company.

Animals are great and I wish all dogs had helicpotors.

no sarcasmo.

Taking less than perfect dogs and rehabilitating them often inspires people to rescue dogs. This happens when the rescuers walk around in the park with our happy part robot dogs which leads to pleasant interest and conversation. Which leads to less people buying from breeders. which means less deliberately created dogs who eat factory farmed horribly tortured animals that are eating a food supply that could feed the world and farting their way into global warming hell. i have a two legged dog (born that way). her stubbs are delicate so i dont think that she could have prostheses. But i bought a custom made wheelchair from a very wonderful old hippy-ish couple in upstate NY who are truly great people and they live a great life and support great causes and eat local beets and local eggs that are not so ethically terrible and they labor over these custom made wheelchairs with so much local economy love. I love my dog and she is so happy in her chair. It was worth every penny and I can’t imagine spending a dime of it elsewhere.

I think my real problem with the Kushner campaign and the inflated numbers is not that sex trafficking should not be considered a ‘big deal’ even if just a few kids are affected, but that it fed into a Lifetime movie of the 90′s fantasy that the white picket house down the block that nice Mr. Smith lives in actually has Russian girls in the basement and everyone’s husband goes there, OMG. Yes true on some blocks, but not most, i’m nearly certain. To assume that sex trafficking is everywhere, all over, and if you are not a slave or a pimp you are probably a John, and its clearly unstoppable, so lets just CUT down on the demand, like with vegetarianism, by making it seem ‘uncool’ is silly nonsense at its silliest. For one thing, its not everywhere. And you are not going to cut down on the demand by making it seem unhip. Its NOT HIP TO RAPE ENSLAVED KIDS IN AMERICA. Its just not. If someone is doing this at the white picket house down the sububan cul de sac (they are not) they are probably really sick and/or under the throes of an irresistible compulsion, not that we shouldn’t chemically castrate them or put them away forever or whatever you want to do with them, ok, I am not going to get into defending child rapists here, heaven’s no! I get that its a seriously bad thing with a super high recidivism rate. I just don’t think that its a breezy choice that can be changed after being told that Justin Timberlake would not approve. Really, the child rapist never thought Justin Timberlake would think its ok. There is a societal stigma, FOR ONE THING. And yes, it does makes sense that it was the work of a ridiculous celebrity PR campaign and not an issue Ashton or Demi REALLY feel passionately about, and yes, Celebrities mucking about in areas in which they know nothing really DOES damage the cause, because right now the issue is minimized and trivialized by the V. Voice’s poking holes in the inflated data (and yes, it does appear that their motivation may have been just to draw attention away from their own complicity). The end result of the deflated and clownish campaign is to make any movement to end this (how about lets support a non celebrity movement based on trying catch really bad people on the ground floor of the exploitation/organization rather than a casual media influenced metrosexual consumer who does not exist? YEAH TRY THAT maybe???) seem tainted by the brush of this TOMFOOLERY. So, yes.

yeah I loved this too. I don’t know why there are not a million comments. I have read it five times and watched it four times and I am gong to send it around– I feel like it captures my condition. I hope they took the penguin home and dressed it in little suits and walked it on a leash and snuggled it at night and fed it oreos with herring sauce and didn’t make it go out into the wild with killer sharks. Go Kelly.

SOOO GOOOD!!

I like videogum a whole lot. I don’t comment more because I am new (at commenting) and shy and the thing someone already said about when I finally think of something funny enough to say someone already said something better. Gabe is the best. I am terribly jealous of Kelly and will be for maybe one more month but she is obviously awesome and is doing a great job and soon we won’t even be able to comprehend a time when we didn’t have a Kelly and how we got by.

Just once I found the url for the chat and the password at the same time and went and no one was in the room and I suddenly felt terribly embarrassed and vacant and pathetic and like everyone else had stuff to do so why am I trying to chat? So I left suddenly and now I don’t know where the URL or the password is.

General- Videogum best place on internet, ever. . Oh ok, just one thing. Someone once said something about all of us watching Buffy together, episode by episode and discussing it in depth, as a family, even though it will take forever? This may have been a joke but it really stuck with me and now I have to be honest, I don’t think I will be truly content unless that happens. Just saying.

EXACTLY!

I did not make it through the whole thing. It seemed so long and weird and *intimate*, and not funny like the dad clearly thought it would be. The woman stage whispering ‘no, Sean, FUCK’ around 1:07, what? Get some editing software, you affluent little attractive and slightly awkward family with your lovely back yard!! I felt like I was watching a private home movie and shouldn’t be. I have a feeling they will wish they did not put this on the internet. I feel like maybe they have important jobs and maybe their co workers will feel funny about their so free little girl fondling dead animals? Not that there is any thing wrong with that! I just want to close the drapes of the internet so they can be alone and won’t be misunderstood or juged or watched any more.

GREAT job today Huckabeast!

i was so hoping SNL would still be covered by guest bloggers and was so happy to see this post (but that is not the only reason why you are doing great, there are many).

But I completely agree about the MEH factor with SNL this weekend.

The baby duet monologue was just annoying and weird. Pregnancy is not that funny, inherently, I don’t think, or maybe the idea of the juxtaposition of ‘you are precious’/ ‘we had sex’ was actually doomed to be stale no matter how much you like those two actresses.

And the Under the Sea was fine but a missed opportunity. they seemed to just be saying random facebook stuff people said about osama while being the little mermaid and that was like ‘ok, but….’
I needed them to do something more with it. something funny maybe?

The Gaddafi friends sketch was really one of the few I got any pleasure from, and even then, what I felt was shy of delight.

Overall pretty darned disappointing. And I enjoy current day SNL and really don’t have high expectations, I don’t think, although maybe Fey’s presence got me a bit more excited than normal.

I wish I could upvote more than once. Ya I could not even press play, these types of videos totally bum me out.

p.s. if anyone cares those are happy coconut eating squirrels who can get out any time they want. I checked.