January 2008
10 posts
“If I ever meet Penn and Teller I am going to obscenely smash their heads in.”
– from Cynical-C’s blog post about the funniest FCC complaints. This was from a veteran who was offended by a flag burning on Penn and Teller’s show, Bullshit!
The New York Times's List of Corrections →
I think you’ll be surprised at both the number of errors and the amount of people who report these mostly inane errors.
Comedian / economist / game show host / actor Ben... →
He’s the guy who famously utters “Bueller…Bueller…” in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. But he’s also an extremely smart economist, and this column helps average joes like you and me make sense of things like “index funds, mutual funds, annuities, real estate, and the secrets of a building a winning stock portfolio.”
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”
– Comedian Steven Wright. I am of the opinion that professors use ‘plagiarism’ to describe much more than what it was intended to mean.
“When you are manufacturing cars, it costs just as much to produce one as it does...”
– J.S. Kelly, in a very prescient 2000 editorial for CNN
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WatchI had forgotten about Howard Dean’s “Biow!” speech until I was kindly reminded by this Daily Show video. Almost exactly 4 years ago, the caucus numbers went like this for the Dems: Kerry (like Obama now) at 38%, Edwards, always a second place finisher it seems, at 32%, and Dean at 18%. Looking back, one can’t help but wonder how Kerry grabbed that win there.
Excellent Wrap-Up of Last Night's Debates from... →
