Brilliant.
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Petulance and the Prize - Garrison Keillor
The wailing and gnashing of teeth that you hear among Republicans is 68 percent envy and 32 percent sour grapes. Here is an idealistic, articulate young president who is enormously popular everywhere in the world except in the states of the Confederacy, and here sit the 28 percent of the American people who still thought Mr. Bush was doing a heckuva job at the end, gnashing their teeth, hoping and praying for something horrible to happen such as an infestation of locusts or the disappearance of the sun, something to make the president look bad, which is not a good place for a political party to be, hoping for the country to slide into chaos. When you bet against America, you are choosing long odds.
Wall Street Smarts
“IF you really want to know why the financial system nearly collapsed in the fall of 2008, I can tell you in one simple sentence.”
Larry PageRank, not Web PageRank
This is kinda like finding out the inventor of shoe laces had the last name of Shoe, and named the laces after himself.
![Phone-Answering Robot, 1964 from Life Magazine’s 30 Dumb Inventions.
This reminds me of an old sketch idea I had in college: Scene: Family at the dinner table. [The phone rings] [Husband puts down his knife and fork and is about to get up to answer the phone] Wife: Don’t get up—let the machine get it. [Husband resumes eating] [Robot walks past the camera, towards the phone]](http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kreu5mEzRB1qz4ejeo1_r1_500.jpg)
Phone-Answering Robot, 1964 from Life Magazine’s 30 Dumb Inventions.
This reminds me of an old sketch idea I had in college:
Scene: Family at the dinner table.
[The phone rings]
[Husband puts down his knife and fork and is about to get up to answer the phone]
Wife: Don’t get up—let the machine get it.
[Husband resumes eating]
[Robot walks past the camera, towards the phone]
Conan Hits His Head
The best part of this clip is Andy. Wait for when he’s talking about the Ambulance.
