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Penn: I want a president who is kind and inclusive, and thinks before he speaks

By Paul | Published October 9, 2020

Penn Jillette on the Penn’s Sunday School podcast Episode 642 of 29 September 2020 @ 42:11. Somebody […] one of the listeners challenged us […] to say good things about Donald Trump as president. […] I have always wanted to see what it was like to have a president without a filter. We ran that […]

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Who would have thought?

By Paul | Published August 13, 2020

At the bike rally in Sturgis [South Dakota], there are a quarter of a million bike enthusiasts — motorcycle enthusiasts — who are gathering together… in one place… during a pandemic. Who would have thought motorcycle enthusiasts would not understand epidemiology? — Penn Jillette, Penn’s Sunday School podcast #629, 13 August 2020 @5:54.

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There’s No Hemming Johnny Cash into Any One Category

By Paul | Published April 10, 2020

I’m finally getting around to watching Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns, and came across this absolute gem at the end of episode 5: That Spring [of 1968], Columbia released the Folsom Prison album to rave reviews. Commentators from every style of music now saw in him something they all could agree upon. “Talk […]

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Quote of the Day

By Paul | Published December 8, 2018

John Gruber at DaringFireball.net: Facebook is to privacy what Enron was to accounting. Ouch.

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A piece of Spam like you

By Paul | Published May 14, 2018

FORD: I hate to interrupt… but… I think you spent too much time in the discos during the 70s — Village People rotted your brain. LT. AMOS: See that’s the difference between a great investigator like me, and a piece of Spam like you. FORD: Spam? You’re a piece of Spam — that’s what I think […]

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Doug Stanhope on farts

By Paul | Published May 11, 2018

Jeff Brown and I used to eat at The Sahara Dinner Buffet where I had, to this day, the best spectacle of bowel-wrenching flatulence of my life. The room was full of mostly elderly people, tables tightly packed, and we were seated dead center. It was silent except for the slight tinkling of silverware on […]

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Quote of the day

By Paul | Published March 26, 2017

Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me a money needing a lot now. –Bonnie Kelly (Charlie’s Mom), It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, S8E6: Charlie’s Mom has Cancer (2012). Yeah, I’ve been re-watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, from season 1…

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“Nobody fucks with the Jesus”

By Paul | Published April 9, 2015

“Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.” “Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I’ll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger ’til it goes ‘click.’” “Jesus.” “You […]

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Ranking Artists

By Paul | Published December 22, 2014

Mark Maron on Twitter: marc maron (@marcmaron): Ranking artists and making lists is a dead culture’s version of intellectualism.

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Tesla on Edison

By Paul | Published September 12, 2012

via Mental Floss (@mental_floss) on Twitter: Tesla on Edison: He had no hobby, cared for no amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene.

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