Ladies and gentlemen, the former U.S. secretary of defense: “I have sent in our federal income tax and our gift tax returns for 2013,” Rumsfeld wrote. “As in prior years, it is important for you to know that I have absolutely no idea whether our tax returns and our tax payments are accurate.” …. “The tax code is so complex and the forms are so complicated, that I know I cannot have any confidence that I know what is being requested and therefore I cannot and do not know, and I suspect a great many Americans cannot...
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The ones who got away, ranked
Her. Her Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Her. Definitely not her.
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 15 April 2014
If you’re one of the three people who reads this here premier “web log,” you may have once checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from—guess who!—David Brooks, who in his column “A Long Obedience,” writes: But Exodus is a reminder that statecraft is soulcraft, that good laws can...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 8 April 2014
If you’re one of the three people who reads this here premier “web log,” you may have once checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is just one of the the opening lines from David Brooks’s profoundly shallow column today “What Suffering Does,” People shoot for happiness but feel formed...
Continue reading...Last Caress
Since I bought it a million years ago, my copy of The Misfit’s Static Age always had a weird skip on the first guitar strum of “Last Caress.” I listened the hell out of that CD for years, and it eventually found its way ripped to MP3s on each computer I’ve had since then (don’t even ask how I still have all my late-90s MP3s, but have exactly zero papers I wrote in college, including my thesis, in electronic format). So. it just came on my Pandora station, but the opening riff was actually correct, and it...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 2 April 2014
If you’re one of the three people who reads this here premier “web log,” you may have once checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from Thomas “The Tank Engine” Friedman, who in his column today “Follow the Money,” writes: We can deflate this guy tomorrow without firing a shot...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 1 April 2014
If you’re one of the three people who reads this here premier “web log,” you may have once checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from David Brooks, who in his column today, “The Employer’s Creed,” writes: But if you fear leaping out in this way, at least think...
Continue reading...So somebody made a whole Daft Punk and Strong Bad mash-up album
I’m a little late to this game (sorry), but last month Youtube user IAmArique made a whole album mashing up the entirety of Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” and Strong Bad’s classic techno anthem “Everybody to the Limit” and it’s just great. And yes you can download the whole thing! (ed. note from the future: that link is long dead)
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 31 March 2014
If you’re one of the three people who reads this here premier “web log,” you may have once checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s comes from Paul “The Little Professor” Krugman, who in his column today, “Jobs and Skills and Zombies” writes: The point is that influential people move...
Continue reading...Alabama Republican candidate for Senate Will Brooke shoots ACA, completely rips off Sen. Manchin
A second quality advertisement today comes from Will Brooke, who is running in Alabama for the Republican nomination for the Senate race. Invoking the Second Amendment, he gets in his truck, taking a print-out of the Affordable Care act with him out to where he can shoot it with a handgun, a rifle, and finally in super-dramatic-slow-mo an assault rifle (that music!), before eventually putting the whole deal through a Will-Brooke-branded shredder. However, this is such a rip-off of Sen. Joe Manchin’s campaign ad from 2010:
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