Say hi to your mother for me, ok?

I don't care how much Mark Wahlberg wets his little cotton panties, this is fuckin' funny.



Mark Wahlberg needs to stop being such a little girl and quit his fuckin' whining.

And on the off chance that he says anything to Andy in my vicinity, I will talk to you nice, Mark, about the benefits of having a sense of humor. And I then and Andy Samberg will beat your cryin' bitch ass if you try anything funny, Funky Bunch.

Say hi to your mother for me, alright?

Wise up

One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite artists.



Sing it, Aimee.

Wisdom

When I was 18 years old, my two most important aspirations in the world were to find wisdom and to be a great dad. I'm working on both.

And my experience in the world has taught me that wisdom is not something we seek out for ourselves only.

Wisdom is often a consequence of people looking out for others and ourselves despite ourselves.

It is a function of our mistakes and our lessons learned as it is of knowledge in advance of our failings. Wisdom grows out of failures as much as our success. Wisdom is not always so wise. Often we find it tripping over ourselves. Our failure to acknowledge that has cost us much over the course of human history. And our honest acknowledgment of that fact has much good to offer to the world.

We most assuredly need the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. And it takes much courage to change the things we can.

God grant us to wisdom to know the difference.

Nobody's fault but mine

Sing it, Nina.



And the song, for good reason, that I know her for.



True dat, Nina. True dat.

The truth will set you free

The real test of strong ideas is how they fare when nobody likes them.

What Would Milton Friedman Say?

I think Uncle Milt would find it kind of funny that people would think that the most important idea of the enlightenment and in human history - the marketplace and the ideas that it produces - could possibly ever be defeated or brought to an end.

The era of markets is the era of the most serious, consistent, and dramatic progress in human history. The idea that it would be at an end is as irrational as it is wrong.

I think Professor Friedman would have found it kind of amusing that anyone would be rooting for or predicting its demise any more than they would promote or predict the end of democracy, education, scientific development, a reliable food supply, or clean water. As if we would give up any of these contributions to our lives and more genuine measures of progress because someone in power says so.

Gotta wish Democrats good luck with that. I can't imagine anything more futile or foolish. How ironic that those who promote a progressive ideology would so clearly undermine, and in doing so, so clearly signal the more honest direction for real progress.

Truth is often stranger than fiction, it's true.

But the thing about truth is that it's the only thing that's true.

And what is that old saying about truth?

It most certainly wasn't that it will force you to do a goddamn thing.

But it sure as hell will set your free.

And it is freedom that is the only honest consequence of truth.