Haha, excellent! My mom was the school librarian for my elementary school, and she showed these on classroom TVs in the mornings. All the other kids were weirded out, but I thought it was great.

I just had horrifying visions of being a toy for a god-like toddler and hearing that creepy laugh as it pulled my arm off...

The Poo-Poo Train left Mecharius Station shortly after listening to the clip. Correlation = Causation, right? Right?

Luke's hair looks like it wandered out of anime world, but that could just be me. Vader and the storm troopers are especially awesome!

SONGE: That could be said of any protest, really. As far as I can figure, people don't protest to change the opinion of those who have made up their minds about something. They protest to bring attention to an issue and to possibly sway those who are undecided.

A group called Goddamn Electric Bill uses this footage for a video to their song Lost in the Zoo. It goes pretty well together.

Some of these do seem to be very appropriate for use as safewords.

Should I be surprised that the government is in the BDSM business?

I'm surprised he didn't say more about the FBI demands for patron records which are being served under the auspices of the Patriot Act. Demands which, upon being served, cannot be spoken about by the librarian to anyone, including the patron whose viewing record was seized.

I would think this would be a really big deal issue seeing as he's speaking at an ALA conference, but perhaps it wasn't included in the short video segment.

Comedy Gold: ABC 33/40 out of Birmingham, Alabama just ran the jenkem story in the evening news as serious business.

However, living in Birmingham, this makes me a sad panda.