Matt Damon must be munching lead paint chips...

Hi...I'm Matt Damon. I stand on an "X", face the lense, and regurgitate words that someone wrote for me. That, of course, qualifies me as a world class thinker. You should listen to me and take heed because I'm cerebral. I'm Matt Damon.

"Politics is compromise," says the actor, who campaigned hard for Barack Obama. But Damon feels his candidate has compromised too much. "I'm disappointed in the health care plan and in the troop buildup in Afghanistan. Everyone feels a little let down because, on some level, people expected all their problems to go away. But real change comes from everyday people. You can't wait for a leader."

That's right!!!! "EVERYONE" feels a little let down.

Let's take a look at the intelligence behind Matt's percipience. For example, the subject matter of his latest flick du jour marginalizes half of a potential fanbase by bashing the previous presidential administration. That's a 50% write-off of potential movie goers. He proceeds to suggest that "EVERYONE" is a bit let down by the current president's inability to legislate us back into the Stone Age. Well, you have to believe that he lost another 10% to 20% of demographic audience since 75% of Americans think the current healthcare bills (House and Senate) should be dropped.

So, before the film "Green Zone" has even opened, intellectual giant, Matt Damon, has alienated close to 70% or more of the potential viewers. These numbers don't even take into account all the other idiocy that seems to flow incessantly from his pie hole.

BUT...he is MAAAATTTT DAMONNNNN...


(h/t Breitbart's Big Hollywood)

Krugman looks like a genius when standing next to a bag of rocks...

There’s plenty of blame to go around these days. But the prime villains behind the mess we’re in were Reagan and his circle of advisers — men who forgot the lessons of America’s last great financial crisis, and condemned the rest of us to repeat it.

Krugman is insane. The true reason we find our economy so fragile is the sub-prime mortgage mess created and propogated by the Clinton legislation supported by Democrats...who ultimately refused to recognize the toxic debt they were generating despite efforts by some Republicans and the Bush Administration to limit the practice.

On a side note, I bumped into Paul Krugman one late afternoon while walking to the Port Authority. He was standing by himself outside the NY Times building (no longer the possession of the New York Times due to financial idiocy by Pinch Sulzberger). I walked up to him without pause and asked him very matter of factly:

"Where is he?"

He looked at me confused and responded expectly.

"Where's who?"

I grinned my little grin...

"Why...the guy who carries your medication around for you?"

I went on my way having done my good deed for the day, and didn't even bother to take in his response.