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The Best Videos of the Week

Matt Toder · 03/03/12 12:30PM

Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.

'The Obama Administration Wants to Impose Secularism on Everybody:' This Week in Hate-Watching Bill O'Reilly

Matt Toder · 03/03/12 10:10AM

Bill O'Reilly is a pretty religious man - his belief is based on the tides coming and going out - and so the recent culture war about religion has really been in his wheelhouse. He's particularly mad at President Obama (what else is new?) on account of the President's march toward secularism and all the horrors that entails. He revisited the subject three times this week on his show. Here are sixty seconds of his best quotes, with a bonus nugget of wisdom from Rick Santorum.

Bill Maher Explains the Bubbles Both Republicans and Democrats Live In

Matt Toder · 03/02/12 11:30PM

On tonight's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher ended his show with a short rant about the bubbles that both sides of the political aisle live in. The Conservative bubble is well established, but Maher believes that the Liberals live in one too, one where they don't think President Obama can lose on account of what jokes Romney and Santorum are. As Maher reminds us, there was another joke candidate no one thought had a chance a few years ago: George W. Bush.

"Ultimate Fighter" Reality Show Rising Star Has Gay Porn Background

Danny Gold · 03/02/12 11:21PM

Dakota Cochrane, a rising star in the world of mixed martial arts and a top contender on the new season of the Ultimate Fighter Live reality series set to start airing on March 9 on FX, previously had a career in gay porn, reports San Diego Gay and Lesbian News. Cochrane was known as "Danny" in the porn world and performed for Sean Cody Films.

In Portlandia, Never Leave Your Bike with the Valet

Matt Toder · 03/02/12 10:46PM

The best sketch from an otherwise subpar episode of Portlandia featured Fred and Carrie doing another experiment with off-beat entrepreneurialism. In the past, we've seen them try to be movers who only biked across town or environmentalists who start their own recycling firm. This week, they were bike valets, in a sketch that highlights the contradiction between Portland's earthy bike culture and the service-y realm of valet parking. The business didn't work, but the sketch sure did.

Iceland To Form Powerful Alliance With Canada, Crush Enemies

Danny Gold · 03/02/12 09:41PM

Iceland is currently considering adopting the Canadian loonie as their official currency, and Canada is ready to talk. Iceland's current currency, the krona, has taken a beating since the country's economy collapsed in 2008. The country has slowly been rebuilding the past few years, though the krona has remained volatile.

Recession Woes: Financial Adviser Moonlights As Hitman

Danny Gold · 03/02/12 08:37PM

Police in Los Angeles have arrested a man they believe to be behind the brutal murder of a 35-year-old Russian artist in 2008. Daniel Becerrill II, a financial consultant from Huntington Beach, has been charged with homicide, as well as a number of other crimes, in connection with the murder. Police believe that there were a number of people involved in what they are calling a murder for profit scheme.

Drunk Driver+Butt Plug=Florida

Danny Gold · 03/02/12 07:41PM

Kevin Brann must have been in one hell of a rush the morning of February 24 since the 41-year-old forgot to remove the "sexual anus plug in his rectum," as the police report puts it. When police officers in Martin County arrived on the scene of a two car crash, they arrested Brann under suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Things got frisky. More details later emerged:

L.A. Schools Decide to Stop Blindfolding Kids

Hamilton Nolan · 03/02/12 10:36AM

The official fourth grade curriculum in the Los Angeles school system includes one exercise in which students pair up, one of them puts on a blindfold, and the other hands them things, and they describe the things, in order to learn about using all of their senses and whatnot. PERFECTLY REASONABLE. But administrators have now cancelled that exercise for good. Why?

Cabby Grabby, Banker Stabby

Hamilton Nolan · 03/02/12 09:50AM

What is undisputed is this: W. Bryan Jennings, an investment banker with Morgan Stanley, got a cab to drive him from his office in Manhattan back to his home in Darien, Connecticut. In Darien, Jennings proceeded to pull out a pen knife and stab the driver in the hands. Why?

Lindsay Lohan Begged Lorne Michaels to Let Her Host SNL

Matt Toder · 03/02/12 01:13AM

Lindsay Lohan is hosting Saturday Night Live this week and stopped by Jimmy Fallon's show to make sure everyone knows about it. Before reminiscing about the classic Debbie Downer sketch that they all giggled through during her first hosting appearance, Lohan talked about how she ended up doing the show this time around. Turns out, she hounded Lorne Michaels until he said yes.