In the clip from “Saturday Night Live” below, Harry Shearer and Martin Short play a pair of men’s synchronized swimmers. Christopher Guest plays their coach.

It is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

I recall first seeing the sketch in the late 80s or early 90s and I have searched for it ever since. Thankfully, somebody has uploaded it to Google Video (whatever that is) and at long last this treasure of mockumentarian comedy is viewable on demand.

What conception of capitalism do you have if you are attacking your opponent for entering what is the risk-taking of capitalism?

Via Breitbart.tv.

UPDATE (12/14): George Will: Newt Gingrich commits a capital crime

Romney, while at Bain, performed the essential social function of connecting investment resources with opportunities. Firms such as Bain are indispensable for wealth creation, which often involves taking over badly run companies, shedding dead weight and thereby liberating remaining elements that add value. The process, like surgery, can be lifesaving. And like surgery, society would rather benefit from it than watch it.

Romney surely anticipated that such an attack would come — but from Democrats, in the general election, not from a volatile Republican. He now understands Rep. Paul Ryan’s response when Gingrich attacked his entitlement reform as “right-wing social engineering.” Said Ryan: “With allies like that, who needs the left?”

From The Looking Spoon, via Ace on Twitter.

An L.A. conservative invites members of the “Occupy L.A.” movement to ask him questions. He answers with a combination of humility, sensibility and candor that seems to ender the crowd to him– several of them are happy to invite him back.