The New Yorker's "Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies" is less funny than it should be (most of the jokes are pretty obvious), but it's not bad.
Mallory Ortberg missed a trick by not giving us Rand's view on The Incredibles, the most Objectivist animated feature in history.
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
An industrious young woman neglects to charge for her housekeeping services and is rightly exploited for her naïveté. She dies without ever having sought her own happiness as the highest moral aim. I did not finish watching this movie, finding it impossible to sympathize with the main character. —No stars.
Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies [Mallory Ortberg/The New Yorker]
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Perhaps Cleveland preacher Perry Stone is expecting an urgent text from the holy spirit.
This clip is from 2007. I have yet to prepare Christopher Walken’s upright chicken with pears but I have enjoyed this video several times. (via r/ObscureMedia)
A: This clip is an example of a certain genre of Internet video. Q: What is a supercut? Bonus video below, the time Boing Boing was part of a clue on Jeopardy!
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