December 2008
15 posts
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship.
The...
“Cialella then sat down to watch the movie.”
– Phila. man shot because family talked during movie.
Two things:
1) Shooting someone in the theatre and then sitting back down to watch the rest of the film? That’s dedication to cinema.
2) This dude looks more like a “Day The Earth Stood Still” kinda guy than a Benjamin Button...
Convo w/ Mom
“Do I get the channel that your TV program is on?”
“Yeah, it’s on MTV. Your cable has it.”
“That’s what I thought — the channel with the music and the rock and rollers. So I flipped through the channels and looked for punk rockers playing music and I couldn’t find it.”
MillerCoors to stop selling Sparks →
I used to say that Sparks is what homeless people would drink if they understood cost/benefit analysis.
R.I.P. Sparks, I’ve had a lot of fun with you in my body.
WatchMTV, drunk on profits from The Hills, decided to give us our own TV show.
We’re excited. More details to come, obviously.
World's first refrigerated BEACH to be built next... →
No doubt a sustainable way of living.
I bet there’s a formula for how drunk a party was, measured in cell phones lost at the venue.
“Dude, how was last night?”
“Fucking insane. A three phoner. Maybe even a four.”
WatchA conversation about economics with Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan”
Paul Rudd
Anna and I were walking home from seeing Role Models yesterday (highly recommended if you like good mainstream comedies with heart) and started talking about Paul Rudd.
The conclusion we quickly came to is that he could be America’s awesomest human. Besides being a total dreamboat in the looks department, he somehow manages to perfectly straddle the pop/indie entertainment worlds. He also...