Google doodle celebrates 140th birthday of Will Rogers...

[Archae]

Our local library had a record years back, of Will Rogers' radio show, he would talk until an alarm clock went off.

And he'd be so funny.

It was a really sad day when he was killed in a plane crash.

[rurallib]

1. Went to YouTube and pulled up some Will Rogers videos

here is a relatively short one (10 minutes) called "Bacon, Beans and Limosines" from October 1931.
Not too surprising that it is still relevant:

[hunter]

2. This is the twenty-first century, god damn it, and people still consider Will Rogers a radical.

Now we read the papers every day, and they get us all excited over one or a dozen different problems that's supposed to be before the country. There's not really but one problem before the whole country at this time. It's not the balancing of [Treasury Secretary Andrew] Mellon’s budget. That's his worry. That ain’t ours. And it's not the League of Nations that we read so much about. It's not the silver question. The only problem that confronts this country today is at least seven million people are out of work. That's our only problem. There is no other one before us at all. It's to see that every man that wants to is able to work, is allowed to find a place to go to work, and also to arrange some way of getting more equal distribution of wealth in the country.

http://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/WillRogersSpeech.pdf

Comfortable living wages and a more equal distribution of wealth are not impossible dreams.

[Brother Buzz]

3. 'If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.' - Will Rogers