January 2012
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December 2011
Jon Stewart Crushes Fox News In The 2011 Ratings →
The reason why Fox News feels so threatened by Jon Stewart is because his program is more popular than anything not named Bill O’Reilly on the network. Not only is Stewart popular, but he is popular with the coveted young demographics that Fox News struggles with. The average Fox News viewer is 65 years old. For years, the Fox News model of success has been powered by viewers literally aging in...
“One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in...”
– Francis Crick (1916-2004) Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, 1962
Roger Ebert: I'll tell you why movie revenue is... →
1. Obviously, the absence of a must-see mass-market movie. […]
2. Ticket prices are too high. […]
3. The theater experience. […]
4. Refreshment prices. […]
5. Competition from other forms of delivery. […]
6. Lack of choice. Box-office tracking shows that the bright spot in 2011 was the performance of indie, foreign or documentary films [this has arguably been the case since 1989 with...
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Chris McCandless
“Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil...”
– Rick Perry. Knob (via liberalsarecool)
My new favorite Rick Perry quote.
(via evangotlib)
“Foreigners. They look like Canadians, what with all that fur.” — Rick Perry
“Montreal is the seat of a worldwide global conspiracy against America, except there they take dollars.” — Rick Perry
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“I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because...”
– Ray Bradbury
