Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Ben Stein - What Is He Doing Now?

quote [ "Making money is one of the most of harmless things there is to do in the whole world." - Ben Stein ]

Follow-up to this post. Thought it would be interesting to compare SE users' views on Stein in 2014 to now. Comments in original post are definitely worth reading.
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[by snowfox@1:47amGMT]

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Ankylosaur said @ 2:07am GMT on 13th Feb [Score:2]
AOC Derangement Syndrome claims another victim.
conception said @ 4:22pm GMT on 13th Feb [Score:1 Underrated]
AOC Women-Speaking-Up Derangement Syndrome claims another victim.
hellboy said @ 1:39am GMT on 14th Feb [Score:1 Funny]
I'd like to put Ben Stein on a game show and just keep asking him questions about Scandinavia.
hellboy said @ 1:27am GMT on 14th Feb [Score:1 Hot Pr0n]
Hopefully he's dying screaming in a fire.
thepublicone said @ 2:06am GMT on 13th Feb
Dick then, Giant Dick now- people seldom get less Conservative as they age. The only difference between then and now was then he had a somewhat entertaining Gameshow in syndication and could laugh at himself. Now, he's just a self-righteous asshole..... does he still wear the sneakers?
rylex said @ 2:43am GMT on 13th Feb
Didn't he speech write for nixon too??

That alone speaks volumes
lilmookieesquire said[1] @ 3:14am GMT on 13th Feb
He was a hit in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off because he was a living caricature of everything youth/fun/vibrance is not.

Spoiler: he wasn’t acting.
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Edit: Wow I was on point in the old post. I like dumbledorito’s cheney insight.
hellboy said @ 1:36am GMT on 14th Feb [Score:1 Sad]
We've lost some good posters.

I bet sanepride came to regret saying this:

"From an ideological standpoint it's true that Nixon was pretty moderate, especially by current GOP standards. But in terms of vileness, it's hard to beat his overt criminality, paranoia, and shameless abuse of power. Really he set a standard of personal corruption for the ages."

Whole lotta beer-holding since then.
rylex said @ 8:08pm GMT on 14th Feb
He said hard to beat. Not impossible.

Trump really aimed high
lilmookieesquire said @ 7:55am GMT on 15th Feb
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” -H.L. Mencken
JWWargo said @ 8:25pm GMT on 13th Feb
Perhaps he forgot to use his Clear Eyes.

mechavolt said @ 10:48pm GMT on 13th Feb
Hopefully suffocating in an absurdly large pile of money.

*reads article*

Well shit, I lost that call.
damnit said @ 2:17am GMT on 15th Feb
Remember when he made a counter documentary to Bill Maher's Religulous?

Both of them are clinging to relevancy at this point.
snowfox said @ 2:49am GMT on 16th Feb
I didn't particularly like Maher then and I came to loathe him when he gave Milo Y a platform. Milo was a troll, like Trump, and the best thing to have done about both of them was ignore them. They shrivel up and die when we do that.

Had the press not covered Trump so much, if they'd only acknowledged he was running and then just didn't particularly cover him because he was a gag candidate, he never would have gained the momentum necessary for a real run at the office.

Free speech doesn't mean we should grant every idiot a platform. Some should be left to shout into the void while no one bothers to listen.
Onix said @ 3:44pm GMT on 15th Feb
I really liked him, I thought he was one hell of a smart and educated guy. I guess that doesn't keep you from being a man of extreme views that don't sit well with reality.
snowfox said @ 11:02am GMT on 2nd Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
If you like Dilbert, definitely don't read anything Scott Adams has to say.

I would generally say this about any entertainer. If you want to keep liking stuff, it's probably best to know nothing about who created it. It sucks that awful people succeed and good people's works are often ignored, but it probably isn't great for individual mental health to wade into that cesspool.
Onix said @ 11:45pm GMT on 4th Mar
Complexity is a bitch in human beings. Great people, what we can call great people at least, can sometimes be the greatest assholes who ever walked the Earth, and then you find out that monsters like Hitler loved to bake cookies for babies and pet dogs. It's interesting to see how people with important achievements are not that great guys after all. That is so disturbing to a point where I begin to consider that I may be an underachiever because I try to be nice, while monstruous individuals who trample puppies get all the money in the world.
Maybe being such an individual is a prerrequisite for success.

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