You will never go broke appealing to people's vanity and insecurity
On January 6, And posted this request:
“I want an investigative report on GNC- there are two good sized stores costing I’m guessing a lot of money in at least 2 square miles of Back Bay, Boston. I never see anyone in those stores. I want to know what they are, really.”
Great question, and one that crosses the minds of millions of Americans every time we walk past one of those horrible stores. The answer is below the jump.
Tonight is the Iowa Caucuses. That is, tonight is the official start of the process where we elect out next president of the country. The man or woman (Bachmann!) who will succeed Barack Obama. Being that we’re all Republicans and/or Libertarians here, feel free to discuss who you’re pulling for?
I am sort of undecided myself. Bachmann sure knows her tax law, so that’s good. But then again, Ron Paul is really awesome and has half of Twitter pulling for him. And of course, the Dynamic Mormon Duo of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman would make such as awesome ticket.
As you may have heard, on December 31 we say goodbye (adios, sayonara, auf wiedersehen, do svidanja) to producing 100 watt incandescent light bulbs. I’m not sure what the genesis of this policy is, but let’s assume it is part of Obama’s Big Government Super-Regulation Socialism Jobs Killing War on Christmas platform.
Anyway – the Good Gravy part is this: only 10-15% of the energy put into a 100 watt light bulb is emitted as light. The other 85-90% comes off as heat! Good Gravy. They should call it a heat bulb!
This, I also learned, is what allows an Easy Bake Oven to actually cook things (like disgusting brownies). So, if you’re planning on doing you’re Super Bowl party cooking in an Easy Bake Oven, don’t forget to stock up on light bulbs.
You might have seen this 1 minute 11 second video circulated on Facebook and Twitter the last few days. It has over 250,000 views already.
I must say… I hate this video. No… actually, I hate the reaction to this video. This is a 5 year old (or so) girl going on a rant and on my Facebook and Twitter feeds, I see comments from women to the effect of:
“She is my new hero!”
“PREACH!”
“So inspiring!”
And even Huffington Post weighed in with: “If you were looking to add some inspiration to your Christmas Eve, watch this little girl’s impassioned speech against gender stereotypes…”
People are tripping over themselves to say how awesome this little girl is and how inspiring her message is. It’s all pack mentality and the desire to be PC. Here’s what Evil thinks:
1. These people are crap. You know why toy companies make so many pink toys for girls? Because pink toys sell! I don’t think there is some conspiracy from toy companies to make girls grow up one way and boys grow up another way. I’m pretty sure toy companies just want to run a solid business and make products that sell well.
2. This girl has no idea what she’s talking about. She’s just a kid. People shouldn’t be going around saying how inspirational her message it. She just went on a rant. Kids do that.
Protests can be powerful tools for rallying public support around a cause. But this Occupy Wall Street thing is a failure and a wasted opportunity for its organizers.
Why? Because they aren’t asking anything specific. I don’t know if it is because the organizers just don’t have any specific ideas (the issues they are grappling with are very complex), or if they don’t want to reduce their crowd by specifying an agenda. Either way, it’s silly.
Look at all the great protests; they always have a specific message. You can usually sum it up in 10 seconds. Civil rights: “we want the same rights and opportunities as white people.” Arab Spring: “depose the dictator, establish a constitutional democracy with broad-based individual rights.” Troy Davis protestors: “Stay the execution.” Even those nutty tea partiers with their half-wit signs are calling for specific action: “Defeat Obama, eliminate Obamacare, reduce spending.” By contrast, here’s the pitch for Occupy Wall Street:
“We will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.”
Hmmm…Okay.
C’mon, guys. You have thousands of people hanging around. Every media outlet is covering you. Heck, even I checked out your website. And this is all you got? Not a single tangible proposal for us to consider supporting? Who exactly do you think is corrupt? How can we expel the corrupt people from positions of power, or change the system so that it is less susceptible to corruption? Is this about term limits? Campaign finance? Public-to-private-sector job hoppers? And how do you propose we go about moderating greed? Is this a call to increase the marginal tax? Move to a VAT or property tax? Abolish capitalism and put all enterprise in the hands of the state? All of the above?
Once the Brooklyn hipsters (which, judging by the pictures, are a sizable component of this crowd) and blue collar union guys use up their roll-over vacation days and drift back to work, this whole thing will fizzle and the organizers will have wasted an enormous opportunity to make their case for policy positions that we all could be debating right now.
Now that his odds of becoming your next president are something like 1/3, I thought it prudent to reprise a post from last year, reminding you that Rick Perry jogs with a pistol, and uses it.
I think not. He’s as positive as hip hop gets and I thought his 2003 album Electric Circus was very underrated and will smile whenever I hear “Love of My Life (an Ode to Hip Hop). He’s also quietly won mulitple grammys so clearly he rocks right?
Apparently, I am alone in this….Is this really what people spend their time stressing out about?
The other big winner coming out of New Hampshire is Alex Wagner.
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