Archive for August, 2009
I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE THIS PICTURE!
This has been popping up all over the US, and Obama’s fan club isn’t happy. That makes me VERY HAPPY!
His fan club is SO UNHAPPY that the LA weekly wrote that all that is missing from this picture is a noose. What???? Where they got that idea no one will ever know…must be echoes from somewhere within the empty cavern in their heads.
In any case, as Michelle Malkin and Breitbart’s Big Hollywood Blog point out, the same people who are so angry about the satire against Obama were very happy to display nasty pictures of George Bush. (so was I, of course…)
Lots of people traded in their old cars. Perfectly good old cars, most of which were probably paid off. Now, they have new cars, and a car payment!
How many of these cars are going to be repossessed in the next few months?
Way to screw America!
Foolish Old Man
Representative Markey deserves the honor of being the subject of my first “Dunce of the Day” post.
Rep. Markey co-sponsored the bill establishing the program “Cash for Clunkers.”
Cash for Clunkers is foolish on 101 different levels.
Markey and his ilk promoted the program with two arguments: 1) that it would reduce carbon emissions and 2) that it would be good to spur an economic recovery. Both of these ideas are foolish. They can only come from a genuine DUNCE.
While the new cars that people purchase may get slightly better gas mileage, one must take into account the carbon emissions associated with building the new cars and scrapping the old, perfectly useful cars. Saving a few hundred gallons of gas hardly makes the premature construction of a new car worthwhile.
The notion that the economy can be helped by getting people to scrap perfectly good cars is a modern version of the fallacy of the broken window.
Such legislation can only be the product of a fool who CLEARLY never took economics 101.
Congratulations, Rep. Markey: YOU ARE A DUNCE!
Here is the text of the email that I sent to his office informing him of this honor:
Dear Rep. Markey,
I would like to congratulate you on being named “Dunce of the Day” on my blog, kylevarner.com. You co-sponsored the legislation establishing “Cash for Clunkers,” and such legislation could only come from someone with a mental deficiency.
How many copies of Chromosome 21 do you have? My guess: >2.
Congratulations, and keep up the good work! Millions of Americans are counting on you to continue sponsoring foolish legislation and thereby help them to gain access to their unemployment benefits.
With Kind Regards,
Kyle Varner
Our world is full of foolish people. Dunce may be an arcane term, but it’s catchy, and applies quite well to a whole lot of politicians and other public figures.
So, I’m creating a new category: Dunce of the Day. I’ll try to make a post every day, though I’ll likely skip a few days here and there. This should be fun.
In most cases, when I feature someone as the “Dunce of the Day,” I’ll try to find a way to let them know they’ve been honored as such…and of course I’ll post any replies that I get!
It has been quite a long while since I’ve posted to this blog. This is because I have been considering removing it for some time. Why? Because I have to think about my medical career! In two short years, I will be applying for residency positions, and they can be rather competitive. I don’t want to put things on the internet that will prejudice residency directors against me.
In the past, I’ve posted over-to-top, offensive and inflammatory comments that are fun, but don’t reflect well on me. I’m really (or at least, usually) a very nice guy, and my offensive posts portray me in the wrong light. Solution? I’ve removed those posts, and I won’t be the rhetorical bomb-thrower I once was.
Obviously, a residency director could come upon this blog and decide he doesn’t like me because of my political views (or any of 101 other reasons.) This could be a problem for me, but when I think about it, I really don’t want to work for a commie or an uptight jackass, and if you don’t like me because of what I write on my blog, you are probably one of the latter. If you just disagree with me, but still like me, that means you’re cool. So, if a residency director reads my blog and likes me, chances are that they will be fun to work for.
I’m not going to have trouble getting a residency. I’m (I suspect) in the top 10% of my class, and if my shelf scores are any indication, I’m going to rock the USMLE. I’m also about to publish a scientific paper, and I’ll have a few scientific publications by the time I apply for residency. Basically, I’m a very good candidate, and I don’t need to hide who I am in order to get a residency slot.
So, I intend to start posting to this blog again. This time, I’m serious and will be posting regularly. In six or seven years, I intend to publish books. In order to do that, I need to show that my books can sell, and having a very popular blog is one way to do that. So, I’m going to actually make a real go at this.
Life is brilliant and exciting 