The Progression of Progress Progresses
All these people attacking comedians kind of makes me want to become a comedian! Fight the good fight. I'll study all of Don Rickles' routines and go in with a taser. My grandpa fought in World War II, and I'll tell my own grandkids that I fought in the Comedian-Audience Skirmishes of the mid-2020s. "And that's why today, we still have jokes."
May 4, 2022
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The Ohio National Guard murdered four students in broad daylight in Kent State on this day in 1970. A tragedy, but a symbol of progress that it's impossible to imagine something similar happen today.
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Look how far we've come. Today somebody told me that they got a spur-of-the-moment covid vaccine over the weekend at a pop-up tent (with a handwritten sign) at a flea market, with only two people in front of them. And just a month ago people were lying to butt in front of grannies. Progress.
May 4, 2021
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Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens- "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven."
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May the 4th Be With You: Star Wars Day
It's also Mock the Lispers Day
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McSweeney's- Yoda Botches 5 Classic Jokes
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yoda-botches-five-classic-jokes
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From The Onion's, "The Events Depicted in 'Star Wars' Really Happened To Me" by George Lucas:
"Yes, it is true that I grew up a loner, tinkering in the garage, wishing I could escape the moisture farm outside of Modesto, California, where my only real friend was my kindly Aunt Beru. Yes, it is also true that all I wanted to do was get off that farm and join the Academy at USC Film School like my best friend Wedge had done the year before. And, sadly, it is true that one day I left the homestead to look for some missing droids and when I returned, my Aunt Beru was dead—killed by stormtroopers of the Galactic Empire."
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Steven Wright- "When I die I'm donating my body to science fiction."
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Bill Maher- “Democrats don’t seem to get it. You know, ‘It’s in the rules,’ is not an argument that works on Donald Trump. You’re playing Monopoly with a hyena. When it bites you and shits on the board, saying ‘It’s not your turn’ really doesn’t work.”
Perfect observation!
https://fb.watch/kjq6jYy4yt/?mibextid=irwG9G
May 4, 2019
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Don Draper looks out a window during an important meeting, sees a plane flying over NYC, and leaves. I don't use the word transcendence to often...
May 4, 2015
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I make rice often, and never without remembering Kissinger's policy of bombing South Vietnamese dams to flood their rice paddies.
May 4, 2014
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson-
"There’s a worm in the street, you walk by it. Does the worm know that you think you’re smart? The worm has no concept of your smarts. Because you’re that much smarter than the worm. So the worm has no idea that something smart is walking by it. Which makes me wonder whether we have any concept—if a super species walked by us. Maybe they’re uninterested in us because we’re too stupid for them to even imagine having a conversation. You don’t walk by worms and go “Gee I wonder what the worm is thinking.” This is just not a thought that you have! So one of the best pieces of evidence for why we haven’t been visited by aliens is that they have actually observed us, and concluded there is no intelligent sign of life on earth."
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I'm spending the night like most of you, I'm sure- watching the Phils and cutting the dreadlocks out of an ancient cat.
May 4, 2010
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Is it "pains in the ass" or "pain in the asses?"
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On this day in 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea:
"Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends."
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On this day in 1961, the "Freedom Riders" began a bus trip through the South. They did it so none of us have to consider doing it. But what are we not considering right now?
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I've been thinking a lot about BoJack Horseman since I finished the series. I thought about it again this morning when I saw that it was Will Arnett's birthday, born on this day in 1970, the same day as Kent State. Then I thought about it again when I saw that it was Horace Mann's birthday, born on this day in 1796, 174 years before Kent State. He said:
"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
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Horace Mann is apparently largely responsible for the creation of our public education system. I wonder what he would think of this quote from Rick and Morty.
“I’ll tell you how I feel about school, Jerry: It’s a waste of time. Bunch of people runnin’ around bumpin’ into each other, got a guy up front says, ‘Two plus two,’ and the people in the back say, ‘Four.’ Then the bell rings and they give you a carton of milk and a piece of paper that says you can go take a dump or somethin’. I mean, it’s not a place for smart people, Jerry. I know that’s not a popular opinion, but that’s my two cents on the issue.” — Rick
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When Hunter S. Thompson was covering the 1976 Presidential campaign, he was struck by Jimmy Carter talking about the effect that Bob Dylan had on him at a speech at University of Georgia School of Law. The speech was on this day 1974, when I was just a nine-week-old baby.
https://www.openculture.com/2024/12/hunter-s-thompson-remembers-jimmy-carters-captivating-bob-dylan-speech.html#google_vignette
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Biologist T.H. Huxley was born on this day in 1825.
"The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands, since the publication of Newton's ‘Principia’, is Darwin's ‘Origin of Species."
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Journalist and author, George Will, was born on this day in 1941. He was a conservative voice of reason through the Trump years, but I particularly like him in Ken Burns' Baseball:
"Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?"
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Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys left us on this day in 2012. He really sums up my thoughts on Obama.
"When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place."
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James Dean's friend, Bill Bast, left us on this day in 2015. I should have made a point to visit him.
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Audrey Hepburn was born on this day in 1929.
"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."
It's important to remember the simple things sometimes.
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Speaking of simpler times, Moe Howard with Larry Fine in the early 1970's. Moe passed away on this day in 1975.
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