I've been going through recent clips from the Daily Show and the consistency in brilliance is astounding. Stewart and his writers have unfailingly found ways to mock and challenge the state of the world today with great humor and insight. What particularly amazes me is his choice of guests, which encompasses many non-mainstream authors with intellectual messages that deserve the public's attention.

Among the many many gems (a congressional hearing on Second Life, a racial dialog, news coverage of the Olympic torch in San Francisco, and interview with Steve Coll, author of Ghost War), I find this one the most akin to my usual reaction to news of the kind and yet is absent from discussions in the media:


By the way, Samantha Bee and Jason Jones make such an awe-inspiring couple on screen! If they are half as funny in real life, their children might suffer from stunted growth due to excessive laughing...