Baked Brian Williams agrees with Robofrakkin.
Sorry Burjit.
Guys, I get it: providing healthcare benefits to employees cost money. And, as a group, you tend to prefer things that do not cost that — I watch Undercover Boss. But own your layoffs and your policies. Let’s stop pretending that suddenly, with this election, bosses have been transformed into reluctant assholes.
Obamacare is just the latest excuse to wriggle out of the social contract. For many years now, full-time benefits like sick days, maternity leave, pensions, lunch hours, chairs — have disappeared by magically transforming full-time employees into ‘independent contractors’ or ‘part-time-20-year temp help.’ Wanna avoid paying half of your employees’ Social Security tax? Reclassify them as ‘independent contractors’ so they pay it all themselves! Make them fill out a 1099! ‘That’s not a full-time busboy — that’s Juan Co., LLC!’
…So let’s cut the ‘I’d loooove to be able to give employees healthcare — I just can’t!’ Let’s face the facts: pizza and coal companies are just unlucky enough to have a labor force that can’t be outsourced — you happen to be among the few industries that still has to hire Americans! I’m sure that if you could outsource your pizza-making to China, I’m sure that ‘Papa John’s’ would become Papa San’s. Which is actually (Japanese), but, you know, for the joke. You understand.
…So maybe next time, take all the millions you donated for partisan political purposes and pump it back into the type of healthcare advances that may ultimately increase business productivity! And then, we can just keep pizza out of politics.
JON STEWART, responding to business owners like Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter threatening to fire employees because of the implementation of Obamacare, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
smartasshat: Jack Valenti said VCRs were going to kill Hollywood. Instead, they provided incredible revenue through rentals and sales. Other businessmen decry green technology as something that will kill their businesses. But instead it enhances efficiency, saving money and increasing profits. Businessmen have a consistent history of resisting any change that benefits them AND others. They only like ideas that benefit themselves and no one else. The fucking idiots repeatedly have to be dragged kicking and screaming into a giant pile of cash that, by the way, is good for everyone.
(via morrowplanet)
Source: inothernews
tj:
Scott Bakula, Brent Spiner, and Michael Dorn cooking dinner for Patrick Stewart’s brother?
Seriously?
SERIOUSLY?
I now have my Make A Wish Foundation wish ready.
(Well, I want WilW there too. Not to be greedy…)
Make it so… AWESOME!
the great tumblr.: Do you remember The Jon Stewart Show?
I started watching it my freshman year in college. Short-lived though it was, I fell in love with that man. His hair was dark and he wore a lot of tight, black sweaters—MTV!—and he was quirky and funny and I fell in love with him. I loved him so much that I wrote down the number they gave you to…
Not only do I remember it, but I watched him as a young stand-up comedian hosting Short Attention Span Theater on Comedy Central (With Patty Ross) before that.
Oh yeah? Well I babysat Jon Stewart when he was knee-high to a grasshopper. And he was really funny back then.
Source: jezebelthegreat
Dude. Not cool.
George Takei: Perfect human being.
And then they went halfway to space together.
Awesome.
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thedailywhat:
Infographic of the Day: ~215,000 vs. ~87,000. In case you were wondering.
Data source: CBS.
[timstrube / thd.]
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Compared to Jon Stewart’s and Stephen Colbert’s audience, Glenn Beck’s crowd had a 252% higher incidence of headless people per capita.
That’s just science, people.](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/smartasshat/1450624048/1/tumblr_lb6fjduTH31qdl7fj)
Infographic of the Day: ~215,000 vs. ~87,000. In case you were wondering.
Data source: CBS.
autoreblog duh duh duh duh duh
Compared to Jon Stewart’s and Stephen Colbert’s audience, Glenn Beck’s crowd had a 252% higher incidence of headless people per capita.
That’s just science, people.
Source: timstrube
