Do you kids like the TED talks? They're a series of conferences where David Brooks pretends to explain scientific innovation or a "social media pioneer" babbles about how clicking a new computer button on a computer program will save Africa or... well, let's just see what the top video on their website is right now: "David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence." We'd rather listen to John McCain sing Ke$ha. "Bart Knols: Cheese, dogs, and pills to end malaria." Oh my god. "Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time." Whatever, fraud. "José Bowen: Beethoven the businessman." Each one is just a fresh new apocalypse. Why not post a talk about, say, the major socioeconomic issue of our era, income inequality and stability? Apparently
<i>&quot;...throw away the microphone ...&quot;</i>
I know of a woman who&#039;s daughter suffered mental retardation after using Bachmann&#039;s microphone. OK, it was Bachmann&#039;s mother and ... OK ... the daughter had the mental retardation before that. But throw it away anyway.
I don&#039;t mind wealth and income disparity. I mind an uneven playing field. I mind Repubicans holding up net worth as the only yardstick of a person&#039;s value, using wealth as a metric for virtue. People get rich one of three ways: inheritance, or luck, or by treating everyone in their life as a profit center -- in other words, by being an asshole 24x7.
Wake up in the morning feeling like Perry Como I got my dentures--I&#039;m out the door--I&#039;m going to hit the DC Before I leave brush my teeth that I got in &#039;Nam Cause i wouldn&#039;t want to offend my girlfriend, Graham Tik Tok etc.
<i>Confidentially, we already have Melinda Gates on contraception</i>
TMI
To me, it made Newt Gingrich seem like its author.
TED hosted a Thomas Friedman talk so it&#039;s dead to me now.
<i>&quot;...throw away the microphone ...&quot;</i>
I know of a woman who&#039;s daughter suffered mental retardation after using Bachmann&#039;s microphone. OK, it was Bachmann&#039;s mother and ... OK ... the daughter had the mental retardation before that. But throw it away anyway.
I&#039;ll remember your observation when the U.S.A. is surpassed by Somalia in rational governance under prez Romney.
I don&#039;t mind wealth and income disparity. I mind an uneven playing field. I mind Repubicans holding up net worth as the only yardstick of a person&#039;s value, using wealth as a metric for virtue. People get rich one of three ways: inheritance, or luck, or by treating everyone in their life as a profit center -- in other words, by being an asshole 24x7.
John McCain sings Ke$$ha:
Wake up in the morning feeling like Perry Como I got my dentures--I&#039;m out the door--I&#039;m going to hit the DC Before I leave brush my teeth that I got in &#039;Nam Cause i wouldn&#039;t want to offend my girlfriend, Graham Tik Tok etc.
I bet Bachmann would step up, though it would be best to throw away the microphone after use.
In the interest of &quot;fairness&quot;, natch.