On the flip side of that, unions protect themselves by seizing a monopoly on an entire industry of blue collar work. If you want to be a licensed plumber working in commercial construction, you have to get into the union training school, go through the union apprenticeship, get your work through the union hall....so…

And television. There are so many better things I could have spent my youth on than video games and television shows. So that now I feel bad watching TV instead of doing something constructive unless its late at night and I’m too tired to do anything else.

Bill O’Reilly and John Stewart are friends.

I have a different theory. For the last 40 years we have seen a steady decline in the political spectrum and an increase in polarization in the US. Both Democrats and Republicans have reached a point of having a specific list of criteria for what constitutes a “real” (R) or (D). And if a candidate can’t check all the…

Failure is an essential part of success. Every figure of significance in entertainment, politics, science, writing, the arts...anywhere has mulitple stories of failure before finally finding success. The major difference is usually that they learned something from their failure, improved themselves and their craft and…

When Neil Diamond was asked by his label to make a Christmas album, he asked his mother what she thought. She said, “It’s OK. That Jesus was a nice Jewish boy until he went a little fakakta in his 30's.”

Definition of literally 1 : in a literal sense or manner : actually <took the remark literally> <was literally insane> 2 : in effect : virtually <will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — Norman Cousins>

It used to be that scripted shows were scarce because cheaper to produce reality TV was taking all the slots. But now there are so many outlets for content that both scripted and reality shows have exploded. There’s literally more content being produced than anyone can follow.

You don’t need to know what it is if your a hard line non-interventionist who won’t spend American blood and treasure on foreign soil.

The beauty of humanity is being able to imagine these ideal worlds. The tradgedy of humanity is never being able to achieve them.

Can we permanently retire the phrase “have your cake and eat it too”. Because literally NOONE who uses it understands what it actually means.

You could say it actually matters more. It’s been proven that any wine, including cheap wine, improves in flavor if it has been aerated. And you don’t need an expensive aerator to do it.

Wrong. Respect should be the default assumption for all human interactions until the other party has done something to lose that respect.

You live in NYC? You know, Con Edison has a program where they are giving away LED bulbs to residential customers and give incentives to commercial customers to convert to LED? Go look at their website.

May I suggest a middle layer of chocolate chip cookie dough?

And to this day he refuses to say WHY he got interested in MD. He doesn’t have it, no member of his family has had it or any close friends have had it. Noone has turned up any of the usual ties that get someone dedicated to a cause like that. And I like that. It’s not about him or why he does it. Just improtant that…

I could see a great NOVEL out of the original story concept. A Jewish clown who does the only thing he knows how to do to make life bareable for himself and the other people in the camp. And in the end, when he finds out a large group of children are being sent to the gas chamber and there’s nothing anyone can do to…

Rules out people who only have one set of grandparents.

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I think if you go back and watch it, his wife called him out on it practically every episode. his hairbrained get rich schemes, his shenanigans. And she gave right back to him everything he dished out. Which is why the relationship worked. For all of Ralph’s “Bang zoom, to the moon” bluster, his wife would just scoff…