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On People Buy Things, You Get Rich

I'm glad you used Bill Gates as the photo.

Microsoft is the ultimate foil to the argument of the free market the best product reaping the most rewards. Not even in an 'Apple v. Windows' mindset, Windows has always been to me a middling, piece-of-crap OS. Yet somehow it's earned gajillions of dollars. At least we're getting it back in the form of outsized influence over our public schools...right?

Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:13 pm 0

On What Do You Mean Atlantis Is Not The Coolest Fictional City?

Any city from Dinotopia, especially "Waterfall City" -
http://images.wikia.com/dinotopia/images/d/dd/WaterfallCityOverview.jpg

Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:00 pm 2

On First We Fire All the Doctors (With Unwashed Hands)

Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:36 pm 0

On First We Fire All the Doctors (With Unwashed Hands)

Man, this is still going on? They drove the first guy to suggest doctors wash their hands to destitution:
Ignaz Semmelweis in Man Without a Country

"Semmelweis observed hospital routines, and began to suspect that doctors were bringing the infection to the patients. He noticed doctors often went directly from dissecting corpses in the morgue to examining mothers in the maternity ward. He suggested as an experiment that the doctors wash their hands before touching the mothers.

What could be more insulting? How dare he make such a suggestion to social superiors?"
-Kurt Vonnegut

Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:32 pm 1

On Cee-Lo Green, "Cry Baby"

Cee-lo realizes that not every song has to have a bridge, right?

This one is so vestigial, you wonder why he couldn't just bring himself to amputate.

Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:04 pm 0

On Bon Iver, "Calgary"

@sweatersLA I immediately thought it was funny how eighties this was, and not the usual touchstones, but the more guazy, middle-aged dad rock, which as you've said, whose heights of unironic belting our half-measured generation will never achieve.

Posted on May 17, 2011 at 1:17 pm 1

On Why 'The Little Mermaid' Is The Greatest Movie of Our Time

Singing 'part of that world' is what got me my first girlfriend in college. I'm not ashamed to say it still works like a charm.

Having a little sister who watched it after school every day helped with the memorizing process.

Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:57 pm 1

On People Should Stop Saying Mean Things About Bob Dylan

Seriously, artists criticizing other artists personalities is a zero-sum game.

I love both their music, but Callahan is the iciest performer I've seen live. Doesn't make a difference to me though.

Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:16 pm 0

On Big Boi And Andre 3000, "Lookin' For Ya"

Based on the picture, do they get their furniture from the same place as Bruno?
http://ramascreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Pete-Rose.JPG

Posted on June 8, 2010 at 4:06 pm 0