To hell in a handbasket -- An 'adult language' lecture on political cartooning, sponsored by the Thomas Friedman Metaphor Illustration Service [video 70min]

This is an unedited video of a lecture given in October 2005 at Columbia University by David Rees -- creator of the clip-art comics Get Your War On and My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable -- where"all the gaffes, pretentious vocabulary errors, and moments of naked self-loathing have been left intact." Topics include David Horowitz vs. Michel Foucault; The Council on Foreign Relations, wizard-related truth behind; Dennis Miller, role as official spokesman for NetZero dial-up internet access; Christopher Hitchens, ubiquity of; Clip art, aesthetic beauty of; Afghanistan, self-immolation of girls therein; Political cartoonist, exciting lifestyle of; A gazelle; and"MOST IMPORTANT: My five ideas about foreign policy and politics that I wrote down in the park before my lecture!!! David Brooks, I'm coming for your job!"