Reader Aaron recently emailed me in the desperate hope that I could dig up a particular episode of the IMAO Podcast (which you long-time readers might remember from circa 2005).

Well, after scouring my hard drive, it turned out that I still have most (and possibly all) of the IMAO podcasts.

It also turns out that – having completely forgotten what was in them – I was surprised to discover that there was actually some good stuff in there.

Thing is, I never realized it at the time, since I was way too close to the project. Being deeply involved in the writing & recording & editing & such, it’s hard to tell if something is funny when you’re on the inside.

From the outside… the answer appears to be “yes”.

So I was thinking about re-posting these things, but the problem is they tend to run about 16 Meg apiece, and IMAO doesn’t have that sort of bandwidth to burn.

And at this point, I turn it over to you, the internet-savvy readership. Is there any place on the internet that would host these for free?

Suggestions in the comments, please.

The Global Peace Index has ranked the U.S. number 85 in peacefulness, behind Libya. I wonder if this has to do with all the times we’ve threatened to violently kill the people behind the Global Peace Index? If so, this is biased.

Also, I wonder if the people behind the Global Peace Index took care to distinguish violence from awesomeness. Like the lobby scene for the first Matrix movie: Is that violent? No, it’s awesome. And that’s what America is. If there was Awesome Index of countries — one that took into consideration the availability of guns and nachos in a country and how often people flip out and do cool stuff and other awesome things — the U.S. would easily be number one. Belgium would be last.

Actually, how does one make a committee a vote on stuff like this? I’m going to do that. I’m going to make the Global Awesomeness Index and annually rank countries on how awesome they are. Someone give me grant money.

Do it now!

According to a Zogby poll, liberals really don’t understand economics. They believe all sorts of illogical things like that reducing supply can actually lead to cheaper prices. I wonder if this is why liberals have such different policy ideas. See, conservatives see the economy as being influenced by supply and demand and pick economic policies accordingly, while liberals apparently think the economy is influenced by a giant money tree that will be appeased to grow more money if people sit in a circle and hold hand and smoke pot and don’t bathe, and they then pick their economic policies accordingly. So it’s not like one group wants to destroy the economy, it’s just that liberals don’t understand it and next time we have to talk about the economy the best idea is to dig a big pit and throw the liberals in it so they can’t bother us while we fix the economy. We’ll just have to remember afterwards to get them out of the pit before they starve and stuff. We don’t want to forget that. We better write it down somewhere.

Fish liberals out of pit.

There. It’s written down.

So like a bunch of women won in Republican primaries last night. We have Meg Whitman for governor in California, Carly Fiorina for Senator also in California, Sharron Angle for Senator in Nevada, and Nikki Haley for governor in South Carolina (though there will be a runoff). I don’t know what’s going on, but I for one welcome our new Republican, female overlords.

There have been a lot of extra challenges for female politicians ever since women were first given the right to vote in the sixties. That’s because women have hormones and emotions and stuff. Still, Science! has proven that a woman can be just as good as a politician as a man if she takes regular drugs to suppress these things. Plus, by choosing to be Republicans, these women probably have already discarded all emotion and motherly instincts and have become complete sociopaths — perfect leaders.

Still, some are going to object to women leaders, wondering how are they going to balance handling national crisis with when their husband needs a sammich. That’s caveman thinking, people. It’s 2010 — the future — and we now have robots to help women multitask both leading a nation and feeding their husbands.

So get with the times and support your local lady Republicans. Democrats will always be the girly party, but we’re the party with the women.

Taking down names…

Reference link.

Cross-posted at America is an Obamanation!