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I Think We Can Put This Koran Controversy Behind Us Now

Jesse Walker | 9.17.2010 10:32 AM

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. The Truth   15 years ago

    When everyone is famous, no one will be.

  2. Kristen   15 years ago

    Someone needs to autotune Ed Tuliper

  3. Phil   15 years ago

    He's a thief. Cut off his hand!

  4. Warty   15 years ago

    Amarillo has hipsters, too? Fuck.

    1. Jesse Walker   15 years ago

      That's a stoner, not a hipster. His big ambition was to be mentioned in High Times.

      1. Warty   15 years ago

        Anyone with an ironic moustache, ironic glasses, and an ironic rattail is a hipster, no matter how much dope he smokes. Besides, there's no law saying one can't be both, is there?

        1. Jesse Walker   15 years ago

          What makes you so sure they're ironic?

          1. Warty   15 years ago

            The video doesn't show if he's wearing girl jeans. That would prove it one way or the other.

            1. Tyler   15 years ago

              Me thinks the dude is just white trash.

      2. ?   15 years ago

        Everybody should have a dream.

      3. Rhayader   15 years ago

        If he wants to be in High Times he needs to be a scantily clad hot chick advertising for seed banks or virtual headshops.

    2. Lorenzo   15 years ago

      And we have swingers here too. That's what put Repent Amarillo on the map -- they would go to this swingers or swappers club (I've live here 45 years and never knew until Repent Amarillo told everyone) and confront patrons, videotape cars and note license plates, call spouses, etc. Real assholes.

      1. zoltan   15 years ago

        Call spouses? Aren't swingers, you know, agreed on it? Those people sound horrible though (Repent people not the swingers).

        1. Spiny Norman   15 years ago

          Maybe they were calling other people's spouses.

    3. Mister DNA   15 years ago

      Amarillo has hipsters, too?

      Yeah, but you've probably never heard of them.

  5. Dr. Dave   15 years ago

    Hilarious.

    The video is as ridiculous as this whole Koran burning "controversy."

    What kind of morons actually give a f&^% if somebody burns a book? It's just paper, you fricking nutjobs.

    1. ?   15 years ago

      Sure. Paper...that kills!

    2. Sudden   15 years ago

      I wonder if Koran publishers, who are presumably Muslim themselves, condone Koran burning as a means of increasing profits.

    3. BoscoH   15 years ago

      I think I smell a fatwa drifting in your direction, infidel.

  6. reasonistreason   15 years ago

    Hero. We need more people like him. If every single Koran got stolen, there'd be nothing to get upset about, right?

  7. Rhayader   15 years ago

    I still say the Bed Intruder Song is the pinnacle of the art form.

    1. Spiny Norman   15 years ago

      Personally, I prefer the Double Rainbow Song. It's more intense.

  8. Abdul   15 years ago

    What kind of idiotic religious bigot doesn't have a back-up Koran?

    1. Rhayader   15 years ago

      Seriously, the dude was all talk. Plus I'm not sure where any religion says you can't torch a faux-hippie along with the Koran.

  9. Greer   15 years ago

    The anchorwomen sounded like Neil Young on Trans

  10. Puff-pass   15 years ago

    I guess posting this clip is now mandatory.

  11. GILMORE   15 years ago

    I am ashamed that jayZ made a song about the death of autotune and I didn't know about it. I prayed for the death of autotune here in an earlier thread...

    http://reason.com/blog/2010/08.....tcontainer

    1. jredheadgirl   15 years ago

      Brilliant! I missed this thread. Thanks for the re-post. Ah, a good laugh is what I needed right about now.

      PS. I too pray for the death of Autotune:-)

    2. cynical   15 years ago

      Oh, I probably should have posted a link back then, that's what I was thinking of.

  12. jredheadgirl   15 years ago

    That's some serious Autotune:-)

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