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Beware the Portly Bovine

OK as some of you may have noticed, over the past month or so there were a few periods where my blog was down. Let me give the quick summary of what happened with Fatcow, the previous host of my blog. (The following consists not of actual quotes, of course, but my condensed paraphrase. However, […]

Jon Stewart Yells, “Ron Paul 2012!”

For a minute I thought they had doctored this Romney clip. He actually said that?! The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

Morgan Freeman Makes Mike Wallace Squirm

This was very well-said for a black guy*: * Oh come on, that was funny.

Potpourri

* I was hired to evaluate the budget numbers in this novel. I thought they were too optimistic, which the author was glad to hear. * Carlos Lara and I did a radio show in Vegas, baby. Topic: Our book. * This year I have two separate nominations up (here and here) for “Funniest Geek […]

Back From Michigan

I’m back in Music City. The bus tour in MIchigan was definitely a new experience for me. I was really hoping we would get hecklers but it never happened while I was there. Apparently there were some Occupiers who tried to disrupt the stops in Pennsylvania. We also saw evidence of them on the bus. […]

Clash of the Titans

I was bracing myself for a rebuttal from Bob Wenzel when I had some harsh words for his take on the consumption tax not affecting consumers at all (save in their role as producers), but not a peep. Then I realized it was because he was engaged in a multi-front war. Wenzel was on the […]

Jon Stewart Prescient on Libya

I didn’t see this when it originally ran. Some great lines, especially the Biden ripping in the beginning: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

Continuing the Murphy NYU Tradition

If I do say so myself, I was good at making jokes while we studied really geeky economics stuff at the doctoral program in NYU. I am glad to see two people following in my illustrious footsteps, though upon closer inspection I see they are PhDs and not students (HT2 MR, and I only watched […]