I love how FamousMormons.net feels the need to identify Wilford Brimley as “that guy in Brigham City” (an LDS film) for those Mormons who don’t watch non-LDS films. The lead actress in The Killing is (or was, at one point) a Mormon. I wouldn’t recommend the series, but she was quite good. Good enough that I looked up who she was, and so on, and discovered that she went to BYU.

When we talk about people (the 47%) or corporations that “pay no taxes,” we’re taking an unfairly narrow view.

This Onion article reminded me of a former (Episcopal) pastor of mine who was caught poking a perishoner and was relieved of his duties. He immediately (and I mean immediately) became a fill-in priest for the Catholic Church. To be fair, I think he was a Catholic priest before converting to Episcopalianism, but I found it kind of funny that my church wouldn’t have him anymore but the stricter church welcomed him back with open arms.

A gorgeous time-lapsed video of Arizona and Utah, if you’re into nature and all that crap. Actually, I’m not a big nature person, and even I found it neat.

Where California went wrong, from that “Moneyball guy” who is married to that hot former MTV chick.

Bakadesuyo: Secret relationships generate more attraction and obsession than legitimate ones. This makes a good deal of sense. People in secret relationships often had more of a fantasy relationship than a real one. By which I mean, they can dream about what “might have been” if they had been able to go all-in. In real relationship, you either find out they aren’t perfect or that the other side wasn’t into you (the bastard).

When it comes to peer pressure, less is more. Too much pressure, and people start becoming stubborn.

It’s common knowledge that Ronald Reagan tried to get ketchup classified as a vegetable. The actually story is a little more complicated than that.

An interesting article on doctors experimenting with health care and payment models.


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10 Responses to Linkluster Zeventig

  1. Samson J. says:

    Wilford Brimley seems to be some guy that is vaguely famous in the US but nowhere else. I never heard of him until I read about him on Med School Is Hard.

    Is it just me, or has The Onion gone downhill a bit in recent years? Seems to me its prime was five or six years ago.

    When we talk about people (the 47%) or corporations that “pay no taxes,” we’re taking an unfairly narrow view.

    Yeah, I’ve had enough of this misleading argument.

    Actually, I’m not a big nature person, and even I found it neat.

    I can never help wondering what is wrong with people who “aren’t nature people” – I can never help thinking that such people are almost defective in some way. No offense meant or anything, Will.

  2. Scarlet Knight says:

    Samson J: Is it just me, or has The Onion gone downhill a bit in recent years?

    It has. It used to be consistenly funny. How it is more hit-and-miss. Then again, how much can you say?

    Samson J: I can never help wondering what is wrong with people who “aren’t nature people” – I can never help thinking that such people are almost defective in some way.

    I think nature people are defective. They remind me of retards who are entertained by a pinwheel spinning for hours upon end.

  3. Samson J. says:

    Then again, how much can you say?

    Yeah, exactly.

    I think nature people are defective. They remind me of retards who are entertained by a pinwheel spinning for hours upon end.

    Except that nature is sublimely beautiful and awe-inspiring and adventuresome, and pinwheels… aren’t. I was going to say more or less the reverse: whenever someone says “I’m not a nature person”, I hear “I’m a couch potato who thinks Friends is the pinnacle of life.” Anyhow, I’m dropping this discussion before it gets out of hand.

  4. trumwill says:

    Wilford Brimley seems to be some guy that is vaguely famous in the US but nowhere else. I never heard of him until I read about him on Med School Is Hard.

    He’s actually most recognizable for his diabetes commercials, of all things. But mostly, he’s a guy that’s sort of on the periphery of things. I don’t know if he’s ever been the lead in anything. Even in Brigham City, he’s on the periphery and only gets a name credit on the box because he’s the only name actor in the movie (except Dutcher, known only in Mormon circles).

    It’s 2000 Election and 9/11 coverage represented the height of The Onion’s greatness. I think more recently the focus has shifted to its TV stuff, which is really quite good.

    I can never help wondering what is wrong with people who “aren’t nature people” – I can never help thinking that such people are almost defective in some way. No offense meant or anything, Will.

    No offense taken. I actually had *no* appreciation of nature until I moved out west. Even now, though, I marvel at the designs of man rather than that of nature.

    “I’m not a nature person”, I hear “I’m a couch potato who thinks Friends is the pinnacle of life.”

    I am a couch potato, and I do like Friends, but even when I get out, I would rather go see downtown Boston than Yosemite National Park.

  5. trumwill says:

    By way of example in comment six, I would probably look at image #6 here with the same sort of awe that my wife looks at the Grand Canyon. #7 fascinates me as well, though for different reasons.

  6. Scarlet Knight says:

    I know WB from a show called Our House, which also had a young Shannen Doherty before she went off the deep end and started starring in online college commercials.

    Samson J.: Anyhow, I’m dropping this discussion before it gets out of hand.

    That’s a good idea. Just to clarify though, while I enjoyed Friends, my taste in TV shows tends to run towards Modern Family and Parks and Recreation. See, I like watching a show about people who work towards providing others with outdoor activity, and Ron Swanson is a bona fide outdoorsman.

  7. trumwill says:

    I know WB from a show called Our House, which also had a young Shannen Doherty before she went off the deep end and started starring in online college commercials.

    I always forget the name of that show (though I remember that image they use in commercial breaks, of all things), but yeah, I think he originally became noteworthy for that.

    That’s a good idea. Just to clarify though, while I enjoyed Friends, my taste in TV shows tends to run towards Modern Family and Parks and Recreation.

    I’m ridiculously behind on both programs. Kudos for P&R taking place in Indiana. No idea where MF takes place, but I don’t recall it being a coastal big city show, though it’s still probably California.

  8. Scarlet Knight says:

    I remember that image they use in commercial breaks

    I do too, amazingly enough, with the drawing of the house, and the pictures of the family members inside each room.

    I actually remember WB from his time as a spokesman for oatmeal as well. In a great parody, Imus in the Morning did the same commercial, where WB suggests that a lonely boy can fill a cooked turkey with hot oatmeal and have his way with it. This was years before the American Pie movies.

    No idea where MF takes place, but I don’t recall it being a coastal big city show, though it’s still probably California.

    LA

  9. Kirk says:

    Am I the only one who remembers WB’s performance in “The Thing”? He was good in that.

  10. trumwill says:

    I do too, amazingly enough, with the drawing of the house, and the pictures of the family members inside each room.

    Yeah! That! I don’t remember the outmeal commercial (and have never seen The Thing).

    LA? Boo.

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