Jon Stewart investigates the Russian dashcam phenomenon

Jonathon Ramsey — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:01:00 EST

Filed under: Etc., Videos, Celebrities, Humor, Russia

The streaking meteor event in Siberia last week has led Jon Stewart to spare a few minutes on The Daily Show to examine footage of the explosion 20 miles high and said to be equal to 300 kilotons of TNT.

But his real interest is asking why so many Russians were able to get the footage in the first place, i.e., why are there so many dashcams? Coincidentally, Wired asked the same question just a few days ago. Using plenty of examples to illustrate his point - akin to this, and this, and this, that we have become oh so used to - Stewart surmises that Russian roads are "A live-action Grand Theft Auto" and that "Russians in their daily lives see so much amazing [expletive] that they have become unfazeable."

You can watch his amusing take on our comrades across the Pacific in the video below.

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Jim Cramer throws his Mad Money behind Cash for Clunkers

Jonny Lieberman — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EST

Filed under: Car Buying, Earnings/Financials, Celebrities

Capitalist-on-steroids Jim Cramer of Mad Money fame (or, if you're a Daily Show fan, infamy) thinks Cash For Clunkers is a great idea. This might surprise some of you (and shock us), but here's his reasons why:

If the total price tag of C4C is $4 to $5 billion dollars, big deal - we spent more than that on Corn Flakes in Iraq.
General Motors and Chrysler are already welfare queens, at least C4C lets them move some metal.
C4C gives Ford, which Cramer calls "the most important auto company with the best lineup of fuel-efficient cars" a chance to stop burning cash, offer refinancing and perhaps equity offers (i.e. offer some common stock).
The environment will be cleaner - "We are doing something good against global warming."

Cramer does go on to say that certain parts of C4C smacks of The New Deal, but Clunkers' (relatively) small price tag is a cheap way to clean up the environment, fight unemployment and move inventory. Says Jim, "[i]t worked for the Chinese with their vouchers to spend, it's working here. What's the issue? Come on Senate, go make it bigger!"

[Source: Blogging Stocks | Image: Rusty Jarrett/Getty]

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