Hey guys, don't worry. Turbo Tax Tim and Bernanke will just keep the ol' printing presses running to produce more money. YAY, FREE MONEY! We'll have that debt paid off in no time! Problem solved.

And no, there's no way that it's a bad idea, or that anything could possibly go wrong with a fiscal policy such as this. It's just good, common sense, practical economics.

Right?

Hey, I wished for world peace for Christmas in third grade, can I have a Nobel Peace Prize, too?

Hang on, wait a sec... I just found one packed in with my Apple Jacks! It's like they're giving these things away or somehting...

(sigh) It's been WAAAAAAAY more political than anything for a while. People with the best platitudes that only produce warm, fuzzy feelings need apply. No actual produced results necessary, apparently.

Here's the thing I don't understand about that goofy FloTV commercial. How is it somehow being spineless or punishment to watch your wife/girlfriend try on lingerie? "Hmmm, let's see. Will I watch some football game on a handheld screen that I could set the DVR for and watch later, or will I watch my sexy wife try on multiple skimpy outfits over and over again?"

Seems like it would be a no-brainer to me, but then again I was never a huge sports nut. I'll take my wife any time of any day and twice on Sunday, please and thank you very much.

Let me tell you something Helen, here's why I suck as a salesman. I show up for a meeting, OK, and the guy shows even a little interest in my product. Well then I get all excited. I'm like Jojo, the little Indian circus boy with a pretty new pet. Oh, I love my pet! And I love it, and stroke it and massage it and, Oh! You're naughty! You're a naughty little pet and then I grrchk! OHHHH! I KILLED MY SALE! And that's when I blow it. But that's when people like you and me have to forge ahead, Helen. Am I right?

Helen: God, you're messed up.

Yes, the quote factor of Tommy Boy, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore are quite high. Good movies, indeed.

I watched Pee Wee's Big Adventure via OnDemand the other day, and I loved the part where he gets thrown off the bull at the Texas rodeo, and people are asking him questions:
GROUP: Do you know your name?
PEE WEE: I don't remember.
GROUP: Where are you from?
PEE WEE: I don't remember.
GROUP: What do you remember?
PEE WEE: I remember the Alamo...
GROUP: (bursts into wild cheering)

I hear ya. It's got nothing on the People's Republic of Johnson County though, thanks to U of I. But, it's mostly central and eastern Iowa in general. Thank God western Iowa still has common sense conservatives living there. You still in the area, GJP?

"I asked him what the surgery entailed and he told me he didn’t know as he’d never read about it. I sarcastically asked if he intended to read about it before he cut me open and performed this radical surgery on me and he told me he wouldn’t bother because it would be too complicated for him to understand, anyway. I asked him what was wrong with me and he told me I had the sniffles and a slight temperature. I asked him what massive radical surgery would do to help cure my cold and he said, 'well, doing nothing isn’t going to cure it.'"

Now THAT is genius!

No mention of this classic exchange?
Peter: "Each day I work at Initech is a little worse than the day before. So when you see me, I'm having the worst day of my life."
Hypnotist: "What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?"
Peter: (pauses a bit) "Yeah."
Hypnotist: "God, that's messed up."

And Smykowski trying to justify his job to the two Bobs. "I help the god**** customers! I have people skills!!! Why can't you see that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!!!"

This movie is a classic. Classic.

I used to produce news for the ABC affiliate in Alexandria, LA. Anytime I would run a clip of Nagin, whether it was just video or a soundbite, my director (liberal leaning independent/Libertarian from what I could gather) would yell out 'chocolate!' Never failed to make me laugh.