Short Hope Unfiltered has an interesting anecdote up that might illuminate some hithero overlooked connections between Social Security, immigration and outsourcing one’s retirement. Or not. It may just be an anecdote about a guy with a pretty clever idea on how to stretch out his retirement income. I find that I am especially tired tonight, no doubt from the excitement of seeing Samurai Jack for the first time.
Yes, yes, I hang my head in shame. Shame!
Shame unto the third generation.
Tartakovsky is the master.
Jack is uneven — some of the episodes drag, some are Very Silly, some both.
But when it’s good, it’s /very/ good. The one where Jack and the Scotsman rescue the girlfriend is up there, as is the one with the treacherous amphibians — the final scene alone makes that one of the top five. The “Pied Piper” episode where the worm-derived DJ is turning the kids into destructive zombies is also excellent.
My favorite so far has to be the (third season?) episode where four or five of his enemies get together to swap “I killed Samurai Jack” stories, and then team up to try to take him down.
I won’t say “watch them all”, but the majority of them are worth seeing, and several of them are really excellent.
Doug M.
Thanks for the link, Moe. And for the record, while Jack certainly can be spotty, Aku (the Master of Masters, the Deliverer of Darkness, the Shogun of Sorrow) has to be one of the great villans, nuanced and simple, repellent and hypnotic, mighty and weak, all at once, and this two-part episode has to stand among the most ambitious and beautiful works of animation ever. In my opinion.
This is up there, too.
Actually, Moe, you don’t have to go outside this country to see pretty much the same thing. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that states that receive Social Security payments on net expand in population and wealth and states that pay Social Security payments on net contract in population and wealth.
As the boomers begin to retire I expect to see restrictions on receiving Social Security payments abroad especially if Mexico doesn’t reform their laws on land ownership by foreigners.