Laffer is to economics what Lamarck is to biology.

He deserves to end his days screeching "HEIL REAGAN!" and "The Democrats will hang you one day!" like some latter-day GOP-branded Julius Streicher.

I tried to take my cat for a ride in the car one day, like a dog, smile, hop in, have fun. He hurt me.

What kind of bullshit headline is that? Hyperbole. The movie wasn't "successfully removed from theatres" except maybe in some podunk US towns that still resemble To Kill a Mockingbird. The movie made all of two bucks and was rotated off screens post-haste as most shitty unprofitable movies are. It wasn't all that inappropriate or offensive, unless you're offended by visible clouds of fart gas in a movie based on a card series that was entirely focussed on bodily excretions and the like. The movie was just plain boring... I loved Garbage Pail Kids a lot because of the flipbooks on the back of the cards. I had almost all of the first six series or so (just threw 'em in the trash one day like so much valuable stuff from my youth). And I never got through the first half-hour of the movie any of the many times I saw it playing on the movie channel. That's how bad it was.

I did not mean to offend any pastafarians...

This video is an argument of philosophy, not an argument of science. As such, it doesn't matter if we bring string theory into it. One could say instead "imagine if there were 10 dimensions, but we can't see all of them". We don't know why gravity works yet, but you just have to accept that Newton and Einstein's work was incomplete. Big Bang theory is based on observations of an expanding universe, but it's impossible to say what happened before that point in time (t=0). It's ok for Scott to use that, but not ok for me to use string theory? Maybe it's an oscillating universe, and it's impossible to observe because humans have not had the capacity to make observations for a long enough time span on a cosmic scale.

I thought Scott presented a good argument in the video. My comments are not to disprove his argument, I stated that already.

>> ^rottenseed:
I'd like to think that I'm going to be a millionaire one day. Like to think all I want, I'd have better luck learning to love top ramen.

Oh and you're really bringing string theory into this? It's a little early in the game to consider string theory a load bearing part of any argument. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy mathematics leading the charge of what we know about the physical world, but let's pump the brakes a bit.

>> ^spawnflagger:
I would assume that he also does not believe in a "soul" (defined however you want) and that humans (and any other intelligent life) are simply the sum of their biological components. (like God, the existence of a soul cannot be proven. I'm not trying to prove it, but I like to think that we are more than an amalgamation of cells and electricity)

I'd like to think that I'm going to be a millionaire one day. Like to think all I want, I'd have better luck learning to love top ramen. Oh and you're really bringing string theory into this? It's a little early in the game to consider string theory a load bearing part of any argument. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy mathematics leading the charge of what we know about the physical world, but let's pump the brakes a bit.

1. My parents met at a Communist Party meeting in the 1950s.
2. I have never before felt compelled to write one of these things to strangers, but my love of the Sift has been growing by the week.
3. I am passionate about uncomfortable comedy.
4. My mum once accidentally ran over my leg in the family car when I was little. When I rushed to show and tell at school, no one believed me.
5. One of my major life goals is to become practical with my hands. I think my generation missed out on life skills, and I’m determined to learn them.
6. I miss my daughter every single day.
7. Most of my sifts never make it.
8. I have lived in Oz (my home country), France and Vietnam. While I can speak fluent French, I never took to Vietnamese.
9. I have ridden a motorbike every day since I lived in Vietnam, but I’m planning on trading down to a pushbike for exercise, sustainability and safety reasons. I’ve never had a serious accident, but I think it’s only a matter of time.
10. I’ve had a blessed life, filled with opportunity.
11. I would quite fancy a career in politics at some point, but I’ve had too much fun with too many people to survive the moral hypocrisy blowtorch of modern political life.
12. Alice Cooper ate at a restaurant I worked in once. He had sausages with maple syrup.
13. I consider myself a pragmatist.
14. I cannot cope with liars. They confuse me.
15. I’m not into guns, but I would like to shoot a feral pig one day to see what it feels like.
16. My personal hero is Paul Keating.
17. I once held open the door to Parliament House for Gough Whitlam – he didn’t thank me.
18. I’m not scared of heights, but I am in my dreams.
19. My favourite place in the world is Stradbroke Island
20. I was passing through the Philippines during an attempted military coup in the 1980s. There were pre-teen kids my age carrying automatic guns.
21. I’m not into computer games, but I’m very competitive and get short term addictions to internet games. I’m currently into Blast Billiards
22. I regularly play lawn bowls
23. I would love to build a sustainable house one day, like those ‘Earth Ships’ designed by the Garbage Warrior.
24. I’m neither religious nor superstitious
25. This list took me my entire lunch time to write, and it's so long since this blog was posted few will ever read it.

Drinking in the morning sun
Blinking in the morning sun
Shaking off the heavy one
Heavy like a loaded gun

What made me behave that way?
Using words I never say
I can only think it must be love
Oh, anyway, it’s looking like a beautiful day

Someone tell me how I feel
It’s silly wrong but vivid right
Oh, kiss me like the final meal
Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight

Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see the light
Yeah, lying with me half-awake
Oh, anyway, it’s looking like a beautiful day

When my face is chamois-creased
If you think I’ll wink, I did
Laugh politely at repeats
Yeah, kiss me when my lips are thin

Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see you like
Yeah, lying with me half-awake
Stumbling over what to say
Well, anyway, it’s looking like a beautiful day

So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year’d see me right!

I would just like to say that I <3 Seth McFarlane and would one day like to have his tiny funny babies. Thank you.