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Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
So Sean Penn (a high school dropout?https://t.co/nJ8pMsYgqT ) wants to canoe around helping hurricane victims: Great. He wants to clean the seas? Love it. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
The crew went but Sutherland missed it, using the afternoon off to spend the afternoon in his hotel room "partying" shit-faced drunk. How do you think that made the ACTUAL heroes of the counter-terrorism community feel? — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
But most are dolts. Exempli Gratia: Keiffer Sutherland rode to stardom as Jack Bauer, a Counter-Terrorism agent ("24"). After peak of success, the crew was shooting in DC. The National Counter-Terrorism Center made special arrangements for Sutherland & crew to visit. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS: I knew a female rock star who was a college graduate, music teacher, and SHARP: she carried a pad and took notes on conversations, and later look up citations and books mentioned. She really made an effort to be respectably "intellectual". There are others. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
However, if I dropped out of community college after 6 weeks, I am not sure I would publicly voice strong opinions about matters of econometrics, chaos theory, and epidemiology. Not unless I had done a LOT of additional homework. And maybe not even then. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
Now that is OK. They found themselves early, followed their dreams, and became stars. More power to them. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
That said, some time ago I saw an article giving the education of many Hollywood stars who (like Sean Penn) continuously opine about public matters. There was a clear pattern: most had gone to college for half a semester, or some weeks of community college, then dropped out. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
I have met plenty of brilliant people without degrees, and I have met idiots (PLENTY of idiots, believe me) WITH advanced degrees. So I do not put any special stock in having a college or advanced degree. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
First, please know that I am the farthest thing from an education snob. I spent my 20's having cancer, went through years of chemo and many dozens of surgeries, could not have held a normal job, so I hung around in grad schools, got a PhD. But I don't think it makes me special. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
I know that story sounds too perfect to be true, but it IS true. I swear it. There is another thing I would say about actors and actresses like Sean Penn and others. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
She told me, "It wasn't. It's Paiute. But they told me it was either that or downtown Hollywood." 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🥲 — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
She said, "They gave me a quarter-mile in the center of Death Valley." I replied, "Really? Death Valley? I did not know that was Navajo land." — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
I said, "Virginia, you ran the Olympic torch? I ran the Olympic torch, too! Where did you run it? Where was your quarter-mile?" — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
About 5 years later I was doing lots of business on the Navajo Reservation (for Worldstock). A wonderful woman befriended me, an entrepeneur, Navajo leader, Miss Navajo, businesswoman. One day I noticed an Olympic torch, identical to mine, in the back of HER office. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
A deep regret of mine is that at the celebration that evening in a Juneau bar, a mentally-challenged kid took a shine to my torch: by the time I thought to give it to him, he and his mom were gone. So ever since, it just sat in the back of my office. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
Like other runners, after passing the flame from my torch to the next I was informed I could keep my torch. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
I told her, "OK, I'll take the outskirts of Juneau, Alaska." When the appointed day came I flew to Juneau, took a cab to the outskirts, and ran my 1/4 mile. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
The gal on the phone said, "No, we're sorry, we are all out. It is either this stretch in downtown Hollywood, or you're getting a 1/4 mile stretch on the outskirts of Juneau, Alaska." — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
I replied, "Well... eh... if it is all the same to you... Do you have any OTHER stretch available?" — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
They immediately said, "And do we have some great news for you! Every runner gets a 1/4 mile stretch along the route. We have a superb 1/4 mile set aside for you, right through downtown Hollywood!" — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
In 2002 the Winter Olympics came to town. Folks managing torch-running called: "As a cancer survivor, Patrick, we want you to run the Olympic torch!" I told them how flattered I was, and of course accepted. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
My readers have granted permission for me to tell a ( snobbish) story about Hollywood: In 1999 we launched Overstock in Utah. — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
@Bsim110 Yeah. Funny, eh? — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
@hodlonaut One tries not to offend... — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
Can anyone tell me how to copy just the GIF for later re-use? — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
https://t.co/94S9GBCvs7 — PolitiTweet.org
Michael Manley @Michael07676897
@backtolife_2023 Bono is just the musical version of Sean Penn. https://t.co/zWfdGa2Vj4
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
I would LOVE to make a criticism of Sean Penn in particular and Hollywood in general. However, I fear that in doing so I may sound like a snob. May I be granted one snob-indulgence to make this observation and tell this Hollywood story? — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
RT @GioBruno1600: https://t.co/aRQ81mD9OO — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
RT @alx: While the media has been providing wall-to-wall coverage of flying objects, this is going on: — PolitiTweet.org
Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne
@Nick_Henk Agreed. — PolitiTweet.org
