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Sarah Michelle Gellar is moderately attractive.

Enjoy a picture of a fine-looking Wildebeest.

Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Sunday, June 06, 2004

RIP Ronald Reagan, a.k.a. The Greatest President since FDR, and probably the second best president since Lincoln. Why do I like Reagan? First and foremost, he beat the snot out of Communism, a political/economic system which, like e-mailing your ex-girlfriend while drunk, is a good idea in theory but a very brutal thing in practice. It's a tremendous waste of mankind's resources; however, your ex-girlfriend only laughs at you and calls you a pussy and forwards your needy lets-get-back-together e-mail to your mutual friends instead of dismembering millions of people in eastern Europe with tanks.

Also, Ron (he and I were on a first name basis, you know) lowered taxes. See, there's this thing called the Laffer curve which states that taxes beyond a certain point reduce government revenue, since low taxes let businesses grow. Ms. Small Business Owner uses the savings from reduced taxes to buy more equipment or hire more people or give her employees raises. I'm all for the graduated income tax, but soaking the rich for its own sake is sophmoric if it leads to worse living conditions for everyone else. Why work harder if you're going to have to give 70% of your earnings to Uncle Sam while you can earn less, hire fewer people, and net the same amount? Regardless of what my long-haired buddy at work says, statistically under Reagan not only did the rich get richer, but the poor got richer also.

Now, before you think I'm playing grainy BetaMax videotape of the "Mr. Gorbechev tear down this wall" speech while touching myself inappropriately, I have a beef with Reagan. I hate the War on Drugs, which is an enormous waste of resource which amounts to bailing out the Titanic with a tea spoon, all the while telling people that we have the water level under control, and that it's only black people and the damn dirty hippies who use water and push water on our innocent children. Seriously, there's a part of the human condition that likes being intoxicated; we can either regulate it and impose age restrictions like Miller Lite or Jack Daniels, or ban it altogether, which creates a black market where gangs bust caps in each other's asses over distribution turf. Also, there's no regulations as to purity of product, which calls to mind the Robin Williams standup routine about snorting cocaine that's been cut with shaved plexiglass.

All told, though, I Heart the Gipper. Eric McErlain does also. He lists five of his favorite Reagan speeches here

words of wisdom
from Mr. Barry White

Josef Stalin killed over 20 million people. What evil deeds have you accomplished today?