Cracks A/V Club

First off, check out the video (at ThinkProgress) of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery at yesterday's funeral for Coretta Scot King, which has got the Right Wing Noise Machine all a-twitter (see more about it at Daily Kos; and I fully agree with Kos Irregular SusanG--please make my funeral, some day long in the future, as political as possible). The text is one thing, but the rousing applause is really something you need to see for yourself:

We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. [Standing Ovation] But Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor.

Next up, the ThreatDown over at the Colbert Report (link goes to Windows Media video), where tolerance is just another 10-dollar word for weakness. Oh, and there might be something about bears in there.

Finally, a very interesting trailer for Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinnette (trailer at Apple, more info at IMDB), her follow-up to the Oscar-nominated (and quite lovely) Lost in Translation. It's got all the lush beauty you'd expect from a grand period piece about kings and queens in France--but the whole trailer is set to New Order's bouncy "Age of Consent" (the opening track to their classic album Power, Corruption, & Lies--via Amazon and iTunes). As my pal Steve-O would say, nicely played.