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Being Poor: It’s like drinking beer forever for free!

It’s bad enough that all of the wealth in the world is owned and controlled by like 10% of the population, but it’s downright annoying when the rich people try to whine and make you feel sorry for them. Read the below screed that was written by an Economics Professor to whine about the burden …

George W. Bush’s Last State of the Union Speech

He’s just walked out, which means I’m about to switch over to cable. I’m just going to assume that he walked out, said “I still  has another year to fuck up the entire world,” and then maniacally laughed. If anyone sees anything much different on CNN.com give me a call. Well, give me a call, …

Steve Earle: Been called a traitor and a patriot

Bonehead that I am and so in agreement with the awesomely rowdy yet less than Dylan like chorus, I never even heard that the last line of the song pays tribute to Lenny Bruce, and yet how could it not? Here he dedicates an early version to Lenny. And to think the Dixie Chicks think …

Brilliance and Mood Disorders

On a related note to my Bobby Fischer post above. A psychiatrist I went to and I had maybe one interesting conversation in the entire time we saw each other. He had a ton of Vincent Van Gogh books in his office. I asked him if this was due to his profession and Van Gogh’s …

Finding Future Stars in Agony

I’ve been unproductive of late. I need to get my shoulder scoped and I’m full of pain medication that isn’t exactly doing it’s job. So unable to do anything else, I’ve continued to download old episodes of Lou Grant from iTunes. It’s a little heavy handed and Ed Asner is nowhere near as cranky and …

Mr. Warmth has some racial editing

Just watched HBO’s Mr. Warmth about Don Rickles, who is really a lovely man. Oddly, whereas the documentary deals with Rickles racial humor head on, it does some editing when it comes to Johnny Carson. There was a famous occurrence on the Tonight Show where Rickles accidentally broke Carson’s lucky cigarette box. The next day …

Rudy Giuliani all in one quote

Rudy Giuliani seemingly is running his campaign for President like a long distance runner conserving energy for a late push, which will either be seen as genius or folly in about six months. He’s a very competant guy that gets things done. He put a lot of gangsters and corrupt securities traders away, he cleaned …