Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
The Saturday Night Live solution to high medical bills
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013I have an audio file of a 1992 Saturday Night Live skit in which Dana Carvey plays Ross Perot discussing some of his proposals to save the United States from financial ruin. One of the many funny passages goes: Let's take the issue of waste. You know, I find it fascinating ...
Tim Andrews impersonates Alex Jones
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Even though nobody who reads this page cares about or even knows about the Regular Guys, an Atlanta morning radio show, you might still get a kick out of Tim Andrews's impersonation of Alex Jones of infowars.com. His impersonations are one of the reasons he's my favorite Regular Guy. This ...
Comedian Larry Miller on politicians
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Larry Miller, of Ten Things I Hate About You and general stand-up comedy fame, was interviewed on the Regular Guys show, the Atlanta morning radio show that I used to listen to in college and still listen to online regularly. Among other things, they got to talking about government and ...
Comic of the day
Friday, October 30th, 2009This is three years old, but it is today's comic in my Dilbert page-a-day calendar. It's so appropriate for the real world of internet debating in general and political debates in particular.
Damn dams
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Your humor du jour, from my friend's Facebook page, one of my four libertarian friends in the world: this funny email exchange between an environmental bureaucrat and an innocent citizen.
Austrian business cycle theory in action
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009The comments in this thread were pretty funny. In response to the video of half-built homes being demolished so that the building company could cut its losses in post-inflationary-boom California, commenter RWW said: A commenter in the YouTube thread says: wouldn't destroying homes help the housing market? the banks can take the ...
Cost of freedom at all-time high
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009My Onion page-a-day calendar contained this news-in-brief article a couple days ago: WASHINGTON, DC—According to a report released Monday, the cost of American freedom has soared from its previous 1779 high of bravery, sacrifice, fighting for what's right, and 25,071 human lives, up to a record bravery, sacrifice, fighting for what's ...
Quote of the day
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009From bumbling idiot and Obama-worshipper Brad DeLong (page 12 of the linked article): Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter led those "Austrian" economists who tried to build theories in which government attempts to cure recession caused more harm than good. Behind Hoover and Hayek stands the figure of Karl Marx, who critiqued ...
Obama’s inaugural address
Saturday, January 10th, 2009Slate magazine and MixedInk.com have partnered to create the People's Inaugural Address, in which anyone can register and contribute their own sentences, paragraphs, or entire speeches, and about a week from now the highest-rated speech gets published by Slate as the true "people's" inauguration speech. This is how Slate describes ...
Urine-to-water purifying machine
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavor believe they have nearly perfected a machine that filters urine to produce drinkable water. The article quotes space station commander Mike Fincke: "Not to spoil anything, but I think up here the appropriate words are 'Yippee!'" Folks—he pees into a cup, pours it into a ...
Failblog captures the essence of government
Friday, November 14th, 2008I don't blag enough on this shared blag between John and I. So when I do these drive-by postings, I feel guilt that I've gone so long without providing something of actual substance. But regardless, here I go again. I will frequent FAIL Blag for laughs. Today, they had this gem: At ...
Heroic Peter Schiff compilation
Thursday, November 13th, 2008The best parts are all the optimistic State cheerleaders scoffing in derision at Peter Schiff and his doom-and-gloom predictions. This will probably be the best ten minutes of TV you watch today. One of many favorite exchanges from this compilation was between Peter Schiff and Art Laffer: Schiff: It's not wealth ...
South Park on drug prohibition
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008"Whatevah! You don't know me! It's my body; I'll do what I want!"
P.J. O’Rourke explains collateralized debt obligations
Monday, November 10th, 2008The left has no idea what's going on in the financial crisis. And I honor their confusion. Jim Jerk down the road from me, with all the cars up on blocks in his front yard, falls behind in his mortgage payments, and the economy of Iceland implodes. I'm missing a ...
Undecided voters are the biggest idiots on the planet
Monday, November 3rd, 2008In Michigan and probably some other states, there has been some moderate amount of discussion, amongst state legislators and radio hosts and other worthless people, about whether voters should be allowed to wear political shirts to their polling places on election day. Since campaign advertisements such as signs and flyers ...
Voting
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008My University's paper today had an opinions article in which the author announces his distaste for both of the political parties candidates. However, he still shows us his faith in Democracy - otherwise known as Mob Rule - when he states: I am a firm believer that by not voting, a ...
Government: The Demotivator
Monday, August 4th, 2008Because I love those zany demotivator posters: Courtesy of Despair, Inc.
The Onion on the invasion of Iraq
Friday, August 1st, 2008The geniuses at The Onion put together an atlas of the world, Our Dumb World, and just about every page of it is hilarious. It must have taken a ton of time and manpower and research to make it. Every country of the world is profiled and summarized, with an ...
America! Fuck yeah!
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008The Onion's AV Club has a funny list of the most hilariously hyperbolic pro-America songs. Of course, the most hilariously hyperbolic pro-America song of all time is "America! (Fuck Yeah!)" from the movie Team America: World Police, but, then, it was trying to be hyperbolic. I love the list of ...
Moderate voters tough for both McCain and Obama to win
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008The AP reports that self-described "moderate" voters will be hard for both McCain and Obama to win in this presidential election. It reminds me of the line from Brian on "Family Guy": "Undecided voters are the biggest idiots on the planet."
Funny, scathing review of Love Guru
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Dana Stevens of Slate magazine pans Mike Myers's latest movie. It sounds like the movie was about as funny as we all expected it to be. This review is probably much funnier than the movie. It's kind of funny: the funnier the review, the worse the movie probably is.
Inflation in Zimbabwe
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Maybe you're familiar with Zimbabwe's brutal racist dictatorship commanded by Robert Mugabe, its runaway inflation, its millions of starved and murdered people, and its hotly contested recent elections. Well, at least there's some humor to be had in all this, at least from our perspective as comfortable Westerners. One Ian ...
“Ralph’s ambition is to one day become a politician”
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Take a moment and read this article. No, really. You'll thank me. In fact, allow me to reproduce parts of it here for your enjoyment. Essentially, a kid in Texas - Ralph, whom I imagine looks kinda like this - stole his father's credit card and proceeded to run up a ...
Even Cartoons Get It
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Why are you looking at me like that? You act like you haven't seen me in a while or something. This past Sunday, lacking anything to entertain myself, I tuned into an episode of King of the Hill. The fates must have been smiling upon me that day because it turned ...
The ice cream of the future
Thursday, March 27th, 2008I've raised this point several times over the last several years: Dippin' Dots, that delicious iced cream product found in shopping malls, amusement parks, and occasionally other places, has claimed it is "the ice cream of the future" for at least 15 years. Come on, it's the future by now. ...
Stocks before whore, everyone’s poor
Thursday, March 27th, 2008The March 17 Daily Show had a great couple of segments on the idiotic federal government and Federal Reserve and the recession the United States is in. A rerun of this ran tonight at 8:00, which is why I'm blagging about it now. Talking about the $600 tax refund the State ...
Bar-stool economics
Thursday, March 20th, 2008The tax system of our country analogized to pub-goers. Kelly: To discover the only reason I deemed this link worthy of posting on our blag, notice who its author is. Hat tip: Radley Balko.
Anti-racism laws mutate racism into newer, stronger form
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008The Onion is again closer to the truth than most people appreciate. I'm starting to think that many of their writers are nothing short of geniuses.
Election results leaked early by Diebold
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Ahh, how the Onion speaks (closer to) the truth more often than our traditional "news" outlets! Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early. Money quote: "This country is based on the fantasy that the government is the voice of the people."
Do we really want another black president
Friday, February 15th, 2008after the events of Deep Impact?
The Dukes of Hazzard as Christ figures
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008I can't believe I've just now gotten around to checking out Roderick T. Long's blag, Austro-Athenian Empire. It is quite insightful and entertaining. I first heard of Dr. Long, I think, from his essay about the anarchic Icelandic Free State at LRC. Don't miss the suggested readings he lists at ...
Dave Barry on the presidential nomination system
Sunday, January 27th, 2008The libertarianish humor columnist hasn't lost anything in his semi-retirement. Then again, maybe he is doing as Will Rogers did and "just watching the government and reporting the facts": On Tuesday, millions of Florida voters will head for the polls. Being Floridians, many of them will become confused and drive into ...
I love The Onion
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Our blag is young and doesn't actually have any readers, but I hope it lasts longer than President Bush's blag.