… because I’m a sucker for old-fashioned torch songs …
April 16, 2012
Obama, paraphrased: “How dare you plebes accuse me of ‘jetsetting’ or being ‘out of touch'”
“I’m pretty sure that’s racist — and besides, I work plenty hard: I mean, it’s not like golf balls just drive themselves, you know. “Now. If you’ll excuse me, I have vacations to scout. For freedom!”
“Corzine Steals Billions Sans Charges, Errant Whale Watcher Faces Prison”
I already wrote this today, but hell, let’s make it a recurring theme: Welcome to liberal fascism, citizen. Take a seat. We’ll be with you when we’re with you: We know for a fact that enormous sums of money legally off limits have disappeared into the maw of disgraced Senator John Corzine’s gambling counterparties, all of whom seem to have taken the oath of omerta. We know that Corzine personally
“Americans Making Over $50,000 a Year Paid 93.3 Percent of All Taxes in 2010”
Fair share, indeed. CNS: According to statistics compiled from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by the Tax Foundation, those people making above $50,000 had an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, and carried 93.3 percent of the total tax burden. In contrast, Americans making less than $50,000 had an effective tax rate of 3.5 percent and their total share of the tax burden was just 6.7 percent. Americans making more
things that fascinate me [updated]
Ever wondered who the oldest (that is, earliest born) person to have appeared in a motion picture might be? Well, I can’t be certain — there are so many uncredited parts in, say, early DW Griffith films — but I may have found the oldest person listed on IMDB: Sarah Whitley (born Sarah Robinson), who portrayed herself in “Roundhay Garden Scene”, an 1888 short documentary film. She was born in
