Electric Josh

Bill Moyers interviews Jon Stewart. They do the secret Federalist Society handshake about two thirds of the way through.
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Alternate Titles to Barack Obama's Book The Audacity of Hope If It Had Been Written by President Bush.
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Hagiography to John K., the guy who completely fixed cartoons in 1991 or so with Ren & Stimpy. Includes many Flash cartoons.
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The Onion A.V. Club brings us Fifteen things Kurt Vonnegut said better than anyone else ever has or will, presented as fifteen excellent quotes, each followed by a kind of mundane explanation, like when someone sets up a joke by completely explaining why it's funny. Good regardless.
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Radio silence here until everyone in the house is healthy, or at least until we make it through the night without being awakened at least once by vomit. It's been a few days.
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Late articles by the late Kurt Vonnegut, one of this space's minor heroes.
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So this is pretty neat. World class classical violinist plays the Washington Metro [the subway] and people (mostly) don't care. The piece is well written, and after you've read it consider that in the Harvard Square stop on the T [the Boston subway] I used to occasionally see quite talented choir groups, violinists, flautists, etc.—even someone playing a harp, once—and I never gave any of them a dime, assuming in each case that I was looking at college students who were just underground enjoying the echoey acoustics and the absurdity of having their music completely crushed by the amazingly squealy trains.
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Bruce Schneier's Second Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest sounds awesome:

Make the TSA ban wristwatches. Or laptop computers. Or polyester. Or zippers over three inches long. You get the idea.

Your entry will be judged on the common item that the TSA has no choice but to ban, as well as the cleverness of the plot. It has to be realistic; no science fiction, please. And the write-up is critical; last year the best entries were the most entertaining to read.

My entry would involve getting a length of wire (from headphones?) burning hot by using it to short out a fully charged laptop battery wrapped in polyester shirts and pressed against the fuselage, but I've already read that idea in at least two places on the respectable parts of the web, so I think I'll just be a passenger (ha!) for this year's contest. Furthermore, last year's winner blew up the Grand Coulee Dam and the comments already posted to this year's announcement are pretty funny; I doubt I can compete with either.
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