Robert Anton Wilsons Favourite Jokes

How to start your day with a positive attitude:

1. Create a “new folder” on your computer.
2. Name it “George W. Bush”.
3. Send it to the trash.
4. Empty the trash.
5. Your computer will ask you: “Do you really want to delete “George W. Bush”?
6. Calmly answer, “Yes”, and press the mouse button firmly…

Taken from R.A.Wilsons site. This is perhaps a little bit old (for both the author and Bush) but still ridiculously funny.

 

Life, it’s a musical thing.

 

Censored Footage of Bill Hicks on David Letterman in 1993

Via Wikipedia:

On October 1, 1993, about five months before his death, Hicks was scheduled to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman, his twelfth appearance on a Letterman late night show (his prior 11 appearances having been on Late Night with David Letterman), but his entire performance was removed from the broadcast – the only occasion, up to that point, in which a comedian’s entire routine had been cut after taping. Both the show’s producers and CBS denied responsibility. Hicks expressed his feelings of betrayal in a hand-written, 39-page letter to John Lahr of The New Yorker. Although Letterman later expressed regret at the way Hicks had been handled, he did not appear on the show again. The full account of this incident was featured in a New Yorker profile by Lahr.

Bill Hicks speaks about the Letterman Censorship:

Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice that was strong and loud.
We’ll miss him.
-Tool

 

High-Fructose Corn Syrup – A Mercury Surprise

I really adore this commercial. It’s propaganda and its very best.

Via the Washington Post, January 26, 2009

“Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.”

UPDATE: The corn industry’s response to the findings.

In addition to…

 

Pothead Pundit on Psychopharmacology

 

Inauguration Day Unity – On Being Cautiously Optimistic

This recent Daily Show peice with John Oliver sums up my feelings about the inauguration of Obama pretty well. It appears that the president is indeed following through with some of his promises. I believe ‘cautiously optimistic’ is an appropriate phrase.

Update: Politifact has created a really nice list of 500 promises made by Obama. They will be updating the status of each of his promises (no action, in the works, stalled, promise kept, compromise or promise broken) during the course of his presidency.

 

Jamie Oliver on Processed Foods in Schools