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Jul. 13th, 2011
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Boys' Adventure
Jul. 13th, 2011 06:30 amIn Harry Harrison's space opera parody Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, the brave boy heroes are facing with barely concealed glee the life-threatening adventures that they will have to undergo to win the Giant Plot Coupon. The female lead (i.e., prize) calmly points out a strategy whereby they could grab the coupon at no danger to themselves, but they ignore her because "she was just a silly hysterical girl."
The Boys' Adventure Club known as the George W. Bush Administration had an exciting plan to keep the economy expanding forever, and didn't listen to silly hysterical girls like Sheila Bair and Brooksley Born who thought there might be something dangerous about subprime loans. Oliver Willis discusses.
The Boys' Adventure Club known as the George W. Bush Administration had an exciting plan to keep the economy expanding forever, and didn't listen to silly hysterical girls like Sheila Bair and Brooksley Born who thought there might be something dangerous about subprime loans. Oliver Willis discusses.
Lenny Bruce said that if we ever do legalize weed, the law that did it would be called the Crippled Children and War Veterans Bill (to legalize marijuana). Instead we're getting The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act (to snoop on everybody). And the Rude Pundit notes that with the great information thief Rupert Murdoch, as with so many others, a criminal is one who arrogates to himself the privileges of the State.