First Guy: I voted for Gary Johnson. We should never have to settle for the lesser of two evils.
Second Guy: You’re married, right?
Humor
The Hardest Job in the World
I saw this job post in the Chicago Tribune today. It is for an Inspector General for New Orleans.
Position established to develop a program of investigation, audit and performance review to provide accountability and oversight for Jefferson Parish and related governmental entities.
A few things leaped to mind.
1) this is the hardest job in the world, in famously corrupt New Orleans
2) why would you advertise in the 2nd most corrupt state, Illinois, to fill this vacancy? We obviously can’t police ourselves
Cross posted at LITGM
Price and Value
The immortal lines of Oscar Wilde had the famous quote about the cynic:
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
Binny’s makes it easy to at least quantify the “value gap” between what you pay and what you get on crappy beer. They show prices in terms of cost per ounce which is at least one common metric from what is good and what is bad.
Coors Light! Dan’s favorite! On sale it is only FIVE CENTS AN OUNCE. By contrast you are paying maybe 10 cents for bottled water and 20 cents (or more) for Starbucks.
And here is a beer rated “100” by the beer adviser (I don’t like stuff that heavy, but I’m sure that if you were a connoisseur of that type of beer it would be fantastic). At 29 cents an ounce, it is almost 6 times more than what you pay for Coors Light.
At least now you have a consistent metric showing 6x in terms of awful-ness.
Cross posted at Chicago Boyz
The Onion On State Government
Recently I received a proposed amendment to the Illinois State Constitution in the mail. The purpose of the amendment is to require a 3/5 majority before pension increases can be passed for state employees.
In short, the amendment to the constitution is required because our elected representatives refuse to do any basic “governing”. Illinois recently implemented a massive tax increase (after all, that’s what “Blue State” governors usually do when they must choose between cutting state expenditures and raising revenues) on the revenue side of the ledger but kicked the can for the umpteenth year in a row for SERIOUS reform of our pension crisis in Illinois.
It made me reflect on the giant overhead and general incompetence of our state’s government. We have a state senate, house, a governor, and an amazing array of local authorities. According to this article, Illinois leads the nation in governmental entities, with almost 7000 of them.
On the other hand, the Onion summarized state and local government with a brilliant and pithy line.
Alabama State Constitution changed to “Roll Tide”.
Perhaps Illinois should do something simpler and just change our state constitution to the famous line
We don’t want nobody nobody sent
Cross posted at LITGM
Obamaphone Features…
Via the always brilliant People’s Cube:
It automatically rejects calls from people with a different opinion. Every time you take a picture, it produces a grimmer image of America. It doesn’t have a plan; it just keeps telling you how bad the other guy’s plan is. When it crashes, it blames your previous phone. All 3 AM calls go directly to voicemail. It has a really useless app called “Biden.” Pairing it with another device sucks all the energy out of the other unit. Type in “job search” and it gives you directions to the welfare office. The navigation feature covers all 57 States. The default ringtone for international calls is “I’m sorry, so sorry, please accept my apology.” The healthcare app downloads and installs itself without your permission. When you make a call, a teleprompter pops up to help you speak. Restaurant reviews are all written by Michelle Obama. There are never any winners on Angry Birds. Instagram takes two months to process a photo and you have to fill out 3 PDFs to do so. Paypal app is replaced with ReceivePal app. You can’t find “Jerusalem” on Google maps. It turns all your Facebook friends into enemies and all your enemies into friends. Don’t want to work? There’s an app for that, too. It automatically bows down to phones made by foreign companies. When you watch a YouTube video, a US ambassador gets killed. When you dial “home”, it calls Kenya. As opposed to the iPhone, it’s called the mePhone.