A Weekend’s Entertainment August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 Four videos today. Let’s start with this one. Short, funny, and topical: HOW TO SPOT LEGITIMATE RAPE – 2 Minutes Evelyn MacPhee: “I adore this song. I am sending it to 60 of my closest friends.” Next up: FLIP FLOP MAN – 6 Minutes No one should be criticized for changing his mind as circumstances change or as he evolves in his thinking. Indeed, we should welcome evolved thinking — when it’s sincere. But, this guy? Allen Brand: “If you haven’t seen this . . .” Awesome. A 92-year-old World War II vet and retired North Dakota judge — in uniform, no less — reads the poem he wrote (text included, if you have any trouble hearing him) . . . O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou, Romney-O? (If you have 20 minutes more, John Seiffer points us to “the ultimate Romney flip-flop collection.” You will be forgiven for not watching — we get it: he takes flip-flopping to an entirely new level — but just so you have it.) And now: THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES 3 minutes Well, the movie isn’t three minutes, but this trailer is. And if you can find the movie itself someplace (your hotel room?), take another hour-forty to watch the whole thing (94% of Rotten Tomatoes-approved critics liked it). It is the story of the Time Share King (you will never again even think about investing in a time share) and his young wife — basically nice people with absolutely no regard for anyone but themselves — and, tangentially, of their large brood of dreadful children and dogs, one of whom she has stuffed and keeps on display after it expires (dog not child) — who set out to build a 90,000-square-foot single-family house, the largest in America . . . and who basically epitomize all the excesses of inequality and personal consumption and salesmanship and leverage that have taken such a toll. (One nice touch: the Time Share King says he delivered Florida for George W. Bush in 2000, though he declines to say how because, he says, it may not have been legal.) Finally: DAN SAVAGE DEBATES THE MAN FROM N.O.M. – One Hour So what happens when perhaps the nation’s most articulate equality advocate, a lapsed Catholic, has an after-dinner debate with perhaps the nation’s leading anti-marriage-equality advocate? Watch — it makes for snappy video — or read the New York Times account (by the debate moderator) here. Have a great weekend.