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Wow. Google Video has the entire movie Baraka online. Lovers of animals and pretty pretty visuals should definately watch this. Note that it is an hour and a half long.

For those who've never heard of or seen Baraka, here's the start of Roger Ebert's review:
In this world of wonders there are still places that have not been smoothed over with the shallow surfaces of Western commercialism. The amazing thing is not how widely the McCulture has spread, but how many corners it has missed. It is claimed that the great age of travel is dead - that there are no longer amazing, exotic, beautiful and fearsome places for the traveler to discover. A movie like "Baraka" gives hope.

On one level, the film is a 96-minute travelog. On another level, it is a meditation on the planet. The director, Ron Fricke, has taken his 70-mm camera all over the globe to photograph natural and human sights. Some of them are as ordinary as the traffic in Manhattan. Some are as awesome as a solar eclipse. Some are as desperate as the tribes of scavengers scuttling like crabs over the garbage dumps of Calcutta.

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Bill Clinton kicked the living hell out of Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday. Almost predictably, the media has focussed on how angry he was at being accused of failing to do anything about Bin Laden, rather than the actual facts of the discussion. The daily show has more:

what the hell did they put in his food?

Further to the last piece, here's Olbermann's comments on this. Once again, I can merely watch, open-mouthed with awe.

I find it very hard to find just one bit to quote, but I'll have to settle for this:

After five years of skirting even the most inarguable of facts — that he was President on 9/11 and he must bear some responsibility for his, and our, unreadiness, Mr. Bush has now moved, unmistakably and without conscience or shame, towards re-writing history, and attempting to make the responsibility, entirely Mr. Clinton’s.

Of course he is not honest enough to do that directly.

As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he is having it done for him, by proxy.

Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News, Friday afternoon.

Consider the timing: The very same weekend the National Intelligence Estimate would be released and show the Iraq war to be the fraudulent failure it is — not a check on terror, but fertilizer for it!

The kind of proof of incompetence, for which the administration and its hyenas at Fox need to find a diversion, in a scapegoat.

( full transcript )