Alan Weisman, author of the key apocalyptic text of the moment, The World Without Us, was on The Daily Show last night. Here's the video:



Ron Riggle's Operation Fluffy Bunny report was also pretty excellent.

Meanwhile, just about all of The Colbert Report was mandatory viewing last night as well: here's Stephen on the Freakonomics terrorism kerfluffle, skepticism, and (maybe my favorite news story of the year) corporate edits of Wikipedia.