DJ AM is Dead....Who Gives a Shit??

People need to trade MTV in for a book or two.

Here's a list of recommendations.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

1984 by George Orwell

The Republic by Plato

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Politics by Aristotle

First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

Hamlet by Shakespeare

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

American Boys’ Handy Book

King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

Malcolm X: The Autobiography

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Histories by Herodotus

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Economics...

 

It is the month of August, in a small Georgia country town. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted.

It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.

He enters the only place to stay, a small bed and breakfast, lays a $100 bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his debt to the town butcher.

The Butcher takes the $100 bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig grower takes the $100 bill, and runs to pay his debt to the feed and seed.

The owner of the feed and seed takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt to the hotel proprietor, for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there, with the $100 bill.

The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes downstairs.

After inspecting the rooms, he says that he did not like any of them, takes his $100 bill and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly how the United States Government is doing business today.

 

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