American Difter: Saturdift Morning Lightning Round

1). Christina Wilke of the Huffington Post reports that Obama's second inauguration funding committee will permit unfettered corporate donations for the event in January 2013:

In 2008, Obama's inaugural team limited individual contributions to $50,000 per person and barred all corporate contributions. This year, they will impose no limits on either individual or corporate contributions. Contrary to earlier reports that federal law caps inaugural contributions at $250,000, there are no such federal limits, said another PIC spokeswoman.

Wilke adds that the inauguration "will offer no corporate sponsorship opportunities or logo placements in exchange for these donations."

This hand was brought you by Lubriderm® Daily Moisture

I find this last part hard to believe. It's true that President Obama could potentially exchange these corporate donations for future political favors during his second term, but I would not be surprised if you heard the following for his second swear-in:

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully Google the Office Depot of President of the United State Farm Insurance, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Citigroup of the United States, so help me Goldman Sachs.

2). The Telegraph.uk recently broke a story on contact lenses currently under development in Belgium that will project text messages in front of users' eyes.

The "I didn't see your text" excuse is about to get pile-drived

Three Questions:

How will this impact current laws on texting while driving?
Can we trust Belgians to put things in our eyes?
Will these lenses support current sexting technology?

3). A new trailer has been released for Oscar-winning director Katheryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. The film, which tells the story of Osama Bin-Laden's assassination, is already being lambasted by critics as a political tool for the Obama administration, and many are in an uproar over the alleged classified documents that Bigelow and her team had access to in the making of the film.

"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" was already taken

Now I could rant on and on about the pervasive media-based glorification of political leaders and the military industrial complex, but here at American Difter I'm committed to asking the tough questions that the mainstream media avoids:

Who is going to play Osama Bin Laden?

...

My money's on one of the following:

a. Willem Dafoe