Tag: humor
The White Flag
Courtesy Marquil at EmpireWire.com
Wife Apologizes for Husband’s Letter to the Editor
Back in November, I helped advocate for the passage of two bonding referenda to finance the repair of Clarence school buildings and grounds, and the construction of turf fields at the high school. 70% of the cost of these repairs will be covered and reimbursed by the state government.
In the Clarence Bee, after passage of the proposals, a gentleman sent in this letter to the editor:
This week, Mr. Patterson’s wife weighed in.
That’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks, Mrs. Patterson!
Friday Funny
I’ve argued with my share of die-hard libertarians – glib and otherwise – in my time writing this blog. So I find Mallory Ortberg’s “Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies” in the New Yorker to be especially hilarious.
Bambi:
The biggest and the strongest are the fittest to rule. This is the way things have always been. —Four stars.
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory:
An excellent movie. The obviously unfit individuals are winnowed out through a series of entrepreneurial tests and, in the end, an enterprising young boy receives a factory. I believe more movies should be made about enterprising young boys who are given factories. —Three and a half stars. (Half a star off for the grandparents, who are sponging off the labor of Charlie and his mother. If Grandpa Joe can dance, Grandpa Joe can work.)
Diet Racism
This is too perfect. From College Humor.
Paladino Gets Cuomo Back
Remember last week, Cuomo trolled Paladino by using a picture of Paladino’s snowbound home to raise money for local charities?
It was, on its face, harmless – no one was attacking or criticizing Paladino, and not all that many people realized it was his house.
So, Paladino sent an email around, entitled “This Westchester House”, featuring a picture – poached from the New York Times – of Andrew Cuomo’s Mount Kisco manse:
Of course, Paladino had to take a political swipe at Cuomo. It’s Carl being Carl®.
UPDATE: Don’t forget that Carl’s candidate, Astorino, only released one year’s worth of tax returns when he ran for governor this year.
Andrew Cuomo, by contrast, has released every single tax return he’s filed going back to 1992. To answer Carl’s question re: “walk[ing] the walk”,
Mr. Cuomo reported $16,000 in charitable contributions, more than 4% of his income. All went to HELP USA, the affordable housing nonprofit he founded.
Carl Paladino never released a single year’s worth of tax returns when he ran in 2010.
#Placemaking #Buffalo
#FTFY, WBEN
Local talk radio station WBEN held an online poll about its listeners the tea party on Wednesday. Here are the results as of mid-morning:
Big surprise, right? So, I fixed that for them:
Or this:
Thursday Comic Relief
Maybe weather forecasts should always be like this. Jeremy Paxman does the weather on UK nightly program, Newsnight.
https://vine.co/v/MTAWgqxj3Wh/embed/simple
Kathy Weppner poses with her campaign staff:
OK Go with incredible optical illusions:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86ae_e_ptU]
Mick Jagger & David Bowie’s odd video for “Dancin’ in the Streets”, which aired during Live Aid in 1985, excerpts from which are now presented without music:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_li_d_YviZ4]
Just so you know, if you’re out in public, no one needs your permission to record video of you.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiDXda1WjrA]
In Rally, the co-driver calls out pacenotes to the driver, advising him of what’s coming up, letting the driver go as fast as possible. But come on, Samir, you’re breaking the car!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FymE2Vu-7lc]
Finally, Philosopher Football (as in soccer), from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Here, Germany v. Greece.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04]
It’s a funny skit, but the genius of Python is this:
The Germans are disputing it. Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.
