What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
Medicare loses seven times as much money in fraud every year than the combined profits of the 14 health insurance companies on the Fortune 500.
Boomerang kids: 85% of college graduates must move back home – Oct. 14, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jam3918fGuw
AIRPLANE, a melodrama! It’s just not the same without the jokes…
Generally, you wouldn’t want to stand that close to a volcano. Most incredible volcano footage ever (via geoffmackley)
Irish Hand Dancing
Acclaimed Irish Dancers Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding blow the brains out of the Irish Dance genre in this multi-media extravaganza. Their style liberates Irish Dance from its velvet-clad, tin-whistle-blowing, diddly-idleness and drags it kicking and screaming into the 21st Century.
We No Speak Americano ft. Cleary & Harding (via upandoverit)