Cheating sumo wrestlers, the value of a name, bribing students to do better in school, and legalized abortion leading to a lower crime rate are all topics in the documentary anthology Freakonomics. Based on the best-selling book by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics takes the book’s individual chapters and hands them off to noted documentary filmmakers Seth Gordon, Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, and Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. While Freakonomics has the makings of an excellent weekly TV show, there’s nothing that holds it together as a complete motion picture beyond the source material and an interesting approach to a particular topic. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘Freakonomics’
Day: May 3, 2012
Laser beams don’t kill people. Sharks kill people.
The henchmen said it couldn’t be done, but they were wrong. Science has finally perfected the shark with a frickin’ laser beam.
Marine biologist and Shark Week regular, Luke Tipple, figured out where Evil Industries had repeatedly gone wrong. Instead of attaching the laser to the head, he hooked it up to the dorsal fin. Tipple says he did it to test his new non-evasive underwater clip, which makes sense if you’re looking to upgrade sharks with lasers to sharks with bazookas or hammerheads with actual hammers on their heads.
Tipple says that the laser is harmless. You know, like how a laser sight doesn’t kill on sniper rifles. Perfectly safe.
Ball too hard university
Baltimore Ravens’ linebacker Terrell Suggs likes to ball hard. And apparently he likes to run so hard in Arizona that he could miss the entire 2012 season by tearing his achilles. Way to train, T-Sizzle.
Plausible? Maybe. Scary? Fully.
This is Patricia Krentcil.
She allegedly decided to take her 5 year old daughter into a tanning booth. This resulted in two obvious actions: the child potentially suffering burns and the police arresting Patricia.
Today’s lesson is this: Old, orange and leathery is no way to go through life.
National Zoo: You’re on panda watch
We’re at war here, but apparently some parts of the Obama administration just don’t get it. Not only are they not supporting our efforts to rid the world of the threat posed by animalkind, but some are actually trying to save them!
The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., provided a place in our nation’s capital where we can see our enemy up close, but they go a step to far by trying to make more of them, especially the deadliest animal on their grounds: the GIANT PANDA.
Yesterday, the National Zoo live-tweeted the artificial insemination of one of their female pandas. Not only an affront to our brave warriors, but to common decency itself!