Jon Stewart in the crowd at a Dead Kennedy’s show back when that was a cool place to be seen.
A young Jon Stewart moshing at a Dead Kennedy’s concert, 1982.
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Rudolph Kleven, Alvarado, Minn., letter: When did Crystal stop caring about workers? | Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, North Dakota
He had me until the last paragraph, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not right. Executive greed trumps employee standard of living every time these days.
Rick Santorum: Left uses college for "indoctrination" - CBS News
Perhaps, just perhaps, Rick, those of us who go to college and come out more liberal and less religious aren’t indoctrinated.
Maybe knowledge and critical thinking lead some-but not all-people away from religion.
Maybe being instantly saddled with massive, often crippling debt simply due to a desire for knowledge and understanding of the world gives some people a more progressive view of the world.
Maybe you and your ilk just want a cowed, ignorant, obedient mass of humanity that will hang on your every word and believe whatever you tell them without thinking twice because it’s easier to manipulate people who don’t know any better.
Maybe, just maybe, not everyone who attends college comes out a left-wing atheist, but instead gains critical thinking skills and a more inquisitive nature and that makes them more difficult to satiate with empty platitudes and dog-whistle politics, no matter what their political leaning.
Maybe what you’re really upset about are people who see through the stuffed-shirt politicos like yourself who are all talk and no action, who are in it for their own personal glory instead of the betterment of all Americans, and we’re increasingly getting sick and tired of your bullshit.
And maybe, just maybe, a guy with an undergrad from Penn State, a masters from Pitt and a law degree from a Dickinson shouldn’t be trashing people who want to get an education, because it certainly sound hypocritical to shit all over the professors and institutions that helped on your way to a career and livelihood that included being a high-powered lawyer, a congressman, and now a Presidential hopeful. You didn’t do that shit on your own and you certainly didn’t leave college a secular leftist by any stretch of the imagination.
So allow me to put aside all my high-falutin’ state college book-learnin’ aside for a moment and resort to a more folksy, ‘Merican way of speaking- You’re a asshole and a hypocrite and you make me ashamed to call myself an American. Go fuck yourself, shithead.
All I could think of when I heard that Newt Gingrich said he wants permanent bases on the moon.
Thanks for poisoning my mind with awesome, 30 Rock.
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What Should Liam Neeson Punch Next? : Monkey See : NPR
I approve of Liam Neeson punching just about anything, especially bankers and Steven Segal.
Yup yup.
I believe the federal government has grown out of control, threatening the rights, liberties, and property of the people. This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government. Because I believe this, today I exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country.
Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas • Describing why he decided to skip an event in which Obama honored the team for winning the Stanley Cup last season. While the event went off without a hitch, Thomas’ no-show has drawn a lot of controversy, as many felt that the move showed a lack of respect to the office. The team has distanced itself away from Thomas’ decision, saying they were disappointed Thomas didn’t join in. source (via • follow)
What’s up with Boston and their outspoken asshole Conservative [Kurt Schilling] sports stars? Plus, how can you say it is not about politics? It is exactly about politics. - Douglas/LAC
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Today I learned that I like Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas a lot.
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Lockouts grow as employers up ante vs. unions | | The Bulletin
FYI, American Crystal Employees are still locked out.
Episode 11 - Mike Taus #2 | Past Forward Podcast
The latest Past Forward Podcast is up and available to excite your ears!
I sat down once again with my old friend Mike to look back on the year that was 2011 and discuss his car being stolen not once, but twice.
Joe Paterno: Bury A Man, Keep The Statue - SBNation.com
As he so often does, Spencer Hall sums up a overwhelming event in college football with wit, style, and substance.
If I could add anything, it would be that the legend and the man became one toward the twilight of Paterno’s career, even perhaps in his own mind.
Joe had absolute power in Happy Valley, and as we all know, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even for a man of Paterno’s iron will, corruption’s pull wears away at the hardest resolve. In the end, Joe Paterno succumbed to the temptation of absolute power and those around him enabled that downfall by indulging an old icon and allowing him to become a tyrant of his own making. It could happen to any one of us, and in most it probably would have happened much sooner.
And it’s a shame. Not just because his legacy is tarnished, but because all of the good that he did for thousands of student-athletes, for Penn State as a place of learning, for college football as a whole- is now colored by what he did not do. He did not live up to the high moral standard asked everyone else to live up to.
In the end, I don’t believe that one wrong act can nullify decades of good. I think Paterno really did wish he could take it all back and do the right thing, not because it would make him and his legacy untarnished once more, but because when it came time for him to live up to the legend he had made himself to be, he found himself just a flawed old man, unable to do the right thing when it mattered most.
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