Friday, July 26, 2013

Sam Simon


Tammy Bruce twitters a link to hollywoodreporter

Sam Simon 'Simpsons' co-creator vows to bequeath his fortune.  Matt Groening says he is "brilliantly funny and mentally unbalanced" 

He has given away quite a lot already, and he has some very nice looking dogs in the accompanying photo.
I just wanted to have some days where I get to see animals walk in grass for the first time. Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country. Freeing those animals, that's something I'm not sure I would do if it weren't for the cancer.
Very nice interview overcoming the handicap of THR's achingly vapid interrogatives like: Do you get frustrated with bad things happening to good people? Like, why didn't someone else get this cancer?
One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results. There is stuff happening, really good stuff, every week. I'm not sure you get that with a lot of disease charities. If you were donating to environmental causes for the past 20 years, do you think your money is doing anything? Because I don't, and I used to support some conservationist stuff -- Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund. They're treading water. 
He was doing so well and then,
Climate change is a big part of their problem. The environment has been destroyed, basically.
And it has been destroyed. Where there are too many people amassed together. That is why there should be planetary laws that prevent cities growing beyond, say, 1,000.000 citizens and after that they must go off and start new satellite cities, go elsewhere. In order to prevent that environmental damage. This advanced urban planning knowledge comes from prolonged studies conducted by the United Federation of Inhabited Planets.

8 comments:

rhhardin said...

You can give a gift to the entire country by burning your money, if you'd like a nice memorial service gimmick likely to make the national news.

It reduces the money supply and the fed just replaces it, reducing the national debt by that much.

If you have a thing about this or that charity, you instead inflict it on the whole economy by making it do what your thing says is important, the post nasal drip foundation or whatever, instead of reducing the debt burden on the nation.

rhhardin said...

A charity that ridicules the media and soap opera women would be good, though.

rhhardin said...

Also we need the second amendment extended to pit bull ownership.

It's the hysteric, busybody and hangwringer putdown amendment.

bagoh20 said...

" vows to bequeath his fortune"

I don't think he has a choice in the long run.

ndspinelli said...

Sam Simon was Drew Carey's "phone a friend" on the Millionaire show. He is incredibly smart but obviously susceptible to groupthink as this indicates. He is an ace poker player.

bagoh20 said...

The point about animal charities is very true, and why it's one of the main targets for mine. You do get results, and quickly. For example, you can often save a dog's life for a few hundred dollars, or a few hours of your time,and then you can do it over an over again. In our rescue, we have a lot of young people who don't have any money yet still manage to save the lives of numerous dogs ever year by volunteering their time, and it's not even that much time.

The bonus is that you also help people in a number of ways. There are few things more rewarding than saving the life of an innocent animal full of love and a sense of duty, and in the process give a shut-in, a lonely surviving spouse, or a kid a companion, something to care for, and a source of love and joy. Especially for kids and seniors, a dog can be the difference between a happy or a lonely life.

bagoh20 said...

Global warming, Alternative Medicine, Obama, Wealth Redistribution, Things in print are true, Government is honest, fair and effective.

These are some of the things that idiots and geniuses are equally susceptible to despite the evidence.

I don't know why.

Trooper York said...

You know when I read this title I expected the thread to be about William Randolph Hearst.