George and TJ Discuss a National Holiday Shopping Tradition

  

Ben and TJ Discuss the Latest Apocalyptic Monster That Will Swallow Us All

Ben and George Discuss Election Day Results

 

 

Ben and George Discuss Censorship

Here's two of our national treasures that we haven't seen in a while. Let's have a look at what's chapping the mythical asses of our founding fathers today.

Pretty Sure This Is A Solid Macro Plan

I Am So Upset There Is a Thing Now That Is Called Gawker

Babbling and incoherent story begins here. Don't worry, when I'm done, I'll post a synopsis of what happened in it if you lost your way or didn't understand these awful scribblings from the get go. I'm sorry, I mean "git go". (Fuck year, logical punctuation.)

In any event (and farther away from the point of this post but something I've been thinking on lately) I'm not one of those idiots who pine for a day that never existed in which the Privacy of the American Individual was held sacrosanct. I also don't keep with the notion that our country's establishers were these inhuman titans of dignity and respect who would never have passed the Patriot Act because They Loved This Country so damn much.

Fuck that. If old G. Wash, could have wiretapped phones and snatched library lists, you can bet your ass that he would have. 

Ben and George Discuss a Galtian Exodus

I have been enjoying Curtis White's The Middle Mind lately. It reminds me how, in one of my undergrad courses, I wanted to do some research on stupidity, or how people could be so willfully ignorant, contradictory, and self-defeating. I tried to find some previous research that studied this phenomenon but there wasn't any, not even in politically correct constructs. I asked my professor and he too, couldn't find anything remotely similar. It was strange to me that this fundamental aspect of human nature had no empirical studies measuring it. So, I was forced to pick a different area to study for lack of previous literature on which to base my study of stupidity. I should probably go back to that, maybe. 

After all, it's not like the world lacks for fools.

Jefferson's Dilemma

I have seen a lot of noise around the internet in the wake of bin Laden's killing. Apparently, people either are: hooting and hollering about justice and waving American flags and shooting shotguns into the air from the backs of pick up trucks on the way to the store for more Natural Ice, OR, holding forth about how a human being, no matter how shitty, is still human and we shouldn't celebrate their non-existence no matter what and how they are just going to stop by Whole Foods for a minute to stock up on vegan organic pesto.

I haven't seen anyone say that the only reason anyone in America is celebrating is that some apes that belonged to "our" group killed an ape that belonged to "another" group. This is a pretty crucial omission.

Ben and George Have a Conversation About THE DEBT

 

I just had the conversation with Felicia that if it were possible to bring the founding fathers to the present day and show them the state of their creation, they would slap our collective shit right in the mouth, open palm and everything. She agreed.