In honor of finding The Shawshank Redemption at Target for $6.50 today, here are the 100 best movie lines in 200 seconds. It is worth noting the value of simplicity; the most immortal lines of our culture take a mere two seconds each, on average.
Tag: sunday funnies
Sunday Funnies: Happy Mother’s Day!
In addition to being about 50% of this blog’s audience, Mama Eltringham is a big Beatles fan. In honor of that, this week’s Sunday Funnies draws inspiration from the Fab Four.
Happy Mother’s Day!
(The dubbing is, obviously, a little messed up, but just wait for Father’s Day: by then I’ll surely have a better video that makes fun of Joe Biden to the tune of Aqualung.)
Sunday Funnies: Coup at the UN
Sunday Funnies: State of the Union
With all this talk about government intervention being so direly needed to pull America out of every crisis, my former boss and fellow UMass alum Dan Flynn asks a poignant question: How long before there’s a State of the Union address like this one?
Sunday Funnies: Should the Government Stop Throwing Money Into a Giant Hole?
Economic Policy presented by the Kids in the Hall
With all the talk about the stimulus package this week, I thought it might be useful to review some basic concepts of government intervention in the economy.
First off, government spending programs are frequently wasteful – Canadian broadcasting, for instance, is all publicly funded:
Second, handout programs may seem helpful to some people, but may have different consequences for others:
Finally, it’s nice to have outside-the-box thinking when dealing with problems, but eventually the bills will come due:
Sunday Funnies: Economic Dysfunction
Sunday Funnies: Clinton Reacts to Bush Joke
“Some people can do things other people can’t.” Like perjury.
Quote of the week:
“The House of Representatives has passed President Obama’s stimulus package. And then I guess it goes through the Senate, and then if that’s passed, that $800 million just disappears.” – David Letterman
Sunday Funnies: Dennis Miller on the Inaugural Concert
Making the rounds last week was video of Dennis Miller on the O’Reilly Factor, criticizing Young Jeezy and Jay-Z for their racially charged diatribe during pre-inaugural festivities.
I’ve always found Miller funny, but give him credit. In 2003, Miller became an outspoken supporter of the War on Terror. Now, I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but circa 2002 the pro-Bush, Republican bandwagon was so crowded that it made last week’s Obamafest look like the Australian outback after a nuclear winter. And among the intelligentsia, this was less-than welcome news; Miller was so reviled as a turncoat that some wondered if he was some Dr. Moreau-esque genetic amalgam of Benedict Arnold, Alger Hiss, and Lando Calrissian. Some on the right even questioned whether Miller’s outspoken conservatism (though he eschewed the conservative tag) was more a finger-in-the-wind capitalization on the post-9-11 zeitgeist from someone who had just gotten booted from the Monday Night Football booth.
But things change and today the only place on TV talking positively about Bush is the Home and Gardening network. For someone in Miller’s position, it would have been easy to embrace Obama’s hope and back away from previous support for Republicans under the mantra of independence.
Yet Miller stuck to his guns – and revealed much about his outlook by proclaiming high hopes and well wishes for Obama even while admitting he didn’t support his candidacy. Miller isn’t a politico: Like most people, he has an informed opinion, but also like most people he isn’t boxed in by an Attica-like ideology that confines “open thinking” to one daily jaunt to the prison yard that is echo-chamber opinion press you always agree with. If the casual political observer like Dennis Miller is still more conservative than liberal based on an understanding and acceptance of principles, there might by a chance to win back the rest of America.
Of course, that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Jim Eltringham 