Ted Turner asks Carl Sagan if he's a socialist:

[sl8]

From 1989.

[MiHale]

1. We are using money for the wrong stuff...

True then, true now.

[Timeflyer]

2. Hail Sagan!

[BootinUp]

3. I think Turner was very annoyed by Sagans answer. nt

[Skittles]

4. but to his credit, he let Carl speak

that would never happen now.....

[Rebl2]

14. True

[SouthernDem4ever]

5. Right on Carl!

[judesedit]

6. Beautifully said

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Two gentlemen I admire in very different ways.

[housecat]

8. He is missed now more than ever. One of a kind.

[GreenWave]

9. Hopefully there will be billions and billions more

just like he in the future.

Carl removed a chemistry roadblock in my head when I heard him say, words to the effect,"In the beginning there was hydrogen. A split second later helium was formed."

I never knew my roadblock was where did all these elements originate and presto!

[peppertree]

10. "Phooey!" said the contractor caste and their toadies. "Who needs schools!"

I know of an Alabama redneck (Republican, of course) who had a grimy little factory making plastic doo-dads - until he landed a defense contract shortly after Bush invaded Afghanistan.

He died a few years ago, leaving his wife an oceanfront mansion - which she then sold for $15 million.

And this is just a modest example from that gravy train.

[jaxexpat]

11. There are many Confederate State millionaires who owe their McMansions to......

W's phony wars' "Humvee & Etc." repair circuses. All it took was for a draft-dodging half-wit to slink into the Whitehouse for too long.

[peppertree]

12. +1

Sounds like a bad joke, or one of those '70s comedies about small-time crooks - but no.

It's all too real. And we're paying for every dime of it.

[markie]

13. I keep

saying the same things... except nobody listens to me