Via Bill Whittle on Facebook.

See if you can make it through this video without tearing up. Not even Bill Whittle could do that; he writes, via Facebook:

I did three takes of the final minute of this one, and not once could I get through it. So I went with the first one.

“A Tale of Two Americas“

Another excellent installment of “Afterburner,” in which Bill Whittle wistfully recalls his visit to GM’s Futurama exhibit at the World’s Fair in New York City in 1964.

I feel something similar for Disney’s Tomorrowland (probably heir to Futurama), but the nostalgia is balanced out to some degree by a sense of parallel-world eeriness.

(I’m still looking for a great word for “nostalgia for a future envisioned in the past,” but I enjoyed this piece from the Atlantic’s Word Fugitives from a few years back– October 2001, as it turns out– curiously apropos.)

Bill Whittle praises President Obama’s long-awaited decision to send more troops to Afghanistan in the face of opposition from left-wing media stars such as Chris Matthews, Michael Moore, and Keith Olbermann. (Afterburner with Bill Whittle)

http://www.pjtv.com/v/2784. (PJTV still won’t let you embed videos.)

Bill Whittle in another excellent segment of Afterburner.

I love that there’s a place where he can have 10 minutes at a time to speak semi-comprehensively about something. It’s not at all like CNN or MSNBC where one barely has time to say, “Wait– no. I’m not a racist. I thought we were talking about– seriously, please stop saying I’m a racist–”