Bill Gates, the world’s richest college dropout, is currently on a 3-day tour of top U.S. and Canadian universities to encourage Computer Science students to get graduate-level degrees.
When the world’s richest man comes to your college and in effect says: “Hurry up you students and get your doctorates in computer science so I can hire you to work for me at my company,” why didn’t anyone in the audience say: “No thanks. I’d rather drop out of college like you did and start my own business. You can’t stay the world’s richest man forever, dude.”
I guess when you’re a billionaire, not even your best friends from when you were an idealistic youth will tell you when do something that exposes you as a complete hypocrite…
I’m sure even if your friends called you on it, you’d probably sneer, correct them on the fact that you’re a billionaire hypocrite, and remind them to pick up your dry cleaning.
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Hola,
Yo Soy Dr. Duck. Your friendly therapist, answer person, and janitor.
What’s on your mind? Relationship issues? Politics? Dirty Pictures?
Don’t be afraid to share, except for the dirty pictures – this is a family site – meaning we only talk about bloody violence.
Dr. Duck is back and ready to answer the questions that keep you up late at night, or at least, get stuck in between the back molars – I HATE when that happens, don’t you?
So, go ahead and post those questions in comments. Remember, I’m not a real Doctor, but address me as Dr. Duck. As in all media, if you say something often enough, it must be true.
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Since it’s Friday, I thought I’d spread the joy of humor-free, apolitical Friday Catblogging to IMAO (aka “I-MEOW”).
Today, it’s Piper the Judgemental perched on a sofa arm:

Doesn’t he look happy?
If you’re not sure how this absurd scene pertains to IMAO, since IMAO is famous for that “political humor” thing, it doesn’t. If you must have some semblance of politics or humor in everything you read here, just assume that Piper is… um…
Help me out here. Make your suggestions in the comments how this scene is, in fact, a political allegory.
(For more animal goodness, try Friday Ark today and Carnival of the Cats on Sundays.)

An anonymous man here in Washington State purchased $2,500 worth of Serenity movie tickets in the hopes that his actions would jumpstart the movie’s flagging box office.
This is the effort of a true fan. A fan with more money than sense…
The analysis from movie industry watchers at Box Office Mojo notes that Serenity cost $39 million to produce, has earned $18 million in it’s first two weeks (losing half it’s audience after the opening weekend) and is on track to rake in only $28 million in total box office. This has got to be a shock for the movie studio, who was undoubtedly told that the movie’s fan base was passionate about the TV show upon which this movie was based.
Over the next few years the studio will make back their money and then some in DVD sales and TV rights. For that they can thank fans like the anonymous man in Washington… a fan with plenty of disposable income and the passion for a product so great he was willing to spend a huge chunk of money on that single brand name of quality entertainment he was so passionate about.
Remember folks… IMAO is also brand name of quality entertainment!