If you have watched the new film “The Pursuit of Happyness” there is a scene in the film in which Will Smith’s character is trying to check into a shelter and a shelter worker tries to stop him.
That worker (whose meat space name is Robert Peters) emailed me after reading my recent Mises article letting me know that,
Came across this the other day, which you may have seen.
Interestingly enough it lists Bhutan as being the 8th happiest country. Of course it is easier to please people when their view of the number of choices in the world is severely limited.
It is interesting to compare it to Heritage’s Index of Economic Freedom.
I see a close correlation.
It reminded me of the fable in which the socialist bemoans to a capitalist that there are just too many choices for an individual in a free-market economy… it is too confusing.
And the capitalist retorts that at least they have those choices, those options, those possibilities — because entrepreneurial activity and private property are allowed to exist.
Burn (#1).
So this guy named AC emailed me earlier today, about an online petition he started.
It is a grass-roots effort to try and convince Nike to make those laceless shoes that Marty McFly had in Back to the Future Part II (circa 2015 AD).
And while I doubt the petition will be of much use, the self-made commercial is pretty funny.
Perhaps this could be one area homemade 3D printers can be of use.
I can hardly be accused of being a pinko-hippie granola crunching populist (unless you ask my older sister), yet I still enjoy Colbert much more than O’Reilly.
And I barely watch Comedy Central to begin with.
That said, I managed to catch O’Reilly’s appearance on the Colbert Report last week. It wasn’t nearly as explosive as I thought it would be (see the video here).
In fact, if you want to watch these guys go toe to toe, check out the recent visit Colbert made to O’Reilly’s studio (video). O’Reilly was well, O’Reilly — spewing anger and hatred at his guest.
And while Colbert was very witty, the funniest part of the segment were the snickers you can hear from the production crew, to Colbert’s tactful comebacks.
Note: one wonders if the self-righteous Lewis Prothero (”Voice of London”) in V for Vendetta was partially inspired by O’Reilly’s pompous arrogance.
See also: O’Reilly versus Krugman; and O’Reilly versus Moore
Be sure to visit neatorama to view a larger version.
And also check out the brief clip of MacGyver on Family Guy.
And if you liked that, then you will probably chuckle at this small diagram from XKCD.
And lastly, if you have any teenagers that frequently text message one another, then they might like this before & after. An albino gorilla?!? Kenny Rogers?
