September 2010
1 post
May 2010
2 posts
April 2010
3 posts
The Income Tax Limbo →
The result is a tax system that exempts almost half the country from paying for programs that benefit everyone, including national defense, public safety, infrastructure and education. It is a system in which the top 10 percent of earners — households making an average of $366,400 in 2006 — paid about 73 percent of the income taxes collected by the federal government.
I can’t imagine there...
Saturday Night Live - Sarah Palin Network - Video... →
SAIS = Washington Elite
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March 2010
15 posts
NYT Video: Auto Ice Racing →
New Hampshire: fuck yeah
Panamera Slide Show: NYT →
Don't say no one told you →
“…the budget office is required to take written legislation at face value and not second-guess the plausibility of what it is handed. So fantasy in, fantasy out.
In reality, if you strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games and rework the calculus, a wholly different picture emerges: The health care reform legislation would raise, not lower, federal deficits, by $562...
Must read: Vanity Fair on Goldman, Sub-prime... →
Here's an idea: maybe people should just stop...
From NYT:
“Under current federal law, a person convicted of having 5 grams of crack cocaine receives the same mandatory sentence of at least 5 years as someone who had 500 grams of powder cocaine. Under the new bill, it would take 28 grams of crack cocaine to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence to 28 grams.”
Maybe the different legal standards for coke and crack comes from the fact...
Same Assholes Everywhere →
Sexual Napalm
Whether you hate or love John Mayer, this interview will confirm what you previously thought.
Q: Why do you do it? A: Because I want to show her I’m not like every other guy. Because I hate other men. When I’m fucking you, I’m trying to fuck every man who’s ever fucked you, but in his ass, so you’ll say “No one’s ever done that to me in bed.”
Is anybody paying attention anymore? →
The Existential Olympics
Men’s Cross-Country Plan a Road Trip With Your Old College Buddies But Then Don’t Actually Ever Go On It
Flamboyant young Bermudan phenom Caden Saskatchewan jumped out to a commanding early lead, and was making plans to go all the way to Baja California by way of Albuquerque and Oklahoma City. But all season long, Saskatchewan has been plagued by questions about his youth and...
This sounds like the type of guy who should have... →
February 2010
6 posts
January 2010
21 posts
Meta-Salinger Obit Courtesy of the Onion →
“‘There will never be another voice like his.’ Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it’s just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything.”
Um, someone please do something about... →
Hey Oliver Stone, yeah, you... →
Get fucked.
“What has America become? How can we in America not learn from Germany in the 1930s,” the Oscar-winning director asked.
“You are part of a league of morons.” -Osbourne Cox
Quick, somebody remind me why I’m still in school?
WatchIn a nutshell.
caughtupinsanity:
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Must see: Jon Stewart rips Democrats for mismanaging the Massachusetts special election and health care reform.
The Simpsons turns 20
The Simpsons has been such a constant its hard to realize what an affect this show has had on every funny television moment of the past 20 years. Viva el barto.
The highlight? This gem courtesy of Krusty.
“I work like I drink— alone. Or with a monkey watching me.”
Flaming Lips ft. Henry Rollins do...
“Take me out tonight, where there’s music and there’s people and they’re young and alive”
-The Smith’s “There is a light that never goes out”
December 2009
6 posts
The Word according to Steve →
This is pretty much verbatim what I try to explain to self-loathing Americans who have never been anywhere outside of the US save for Paris, London, Barcelona or Rome. Sure the article provides mostly anecdotal evidence and is not particularly well written, but the point remains.
“Relying on the import of money, workers, and brains, America is a Ponzi scheme that works.”