An iPod for your vote?

From the land of i-banks and Olsen twins, the NYU newspaper, Washington Square News, has a story about a poll they did about what students would want in return for giving up their right to vote in the next presidential election. 20% said they'd drop their right to vote for an iPod Touch. 66% for a free ride to NYU (aka $188,532). In exchange for never voting again, HALF of students said that it would cost only one million dollars. So lets say that the average age of respondents was 20. Assuming they'll live till 80, that's 60 years of voting. Even if they only vote every 4 years, thats 15 presidential elections, or only 66k dollars per election.

Interestingly, 90% of students who would give up their vote for money also called voting "very important" or at least "somewhat important." Personally, I'd like the crosstabs on this, but maybe I'm just a nerd.  Then again, I just want you to vote, f*cker!

Bill O'Reilly Officially Jumps The Shark

Screw Stephen Colbert. Truth is stranger than satire. O'Reilly, on Friday:

I don’t own an iPod.

Already I like where this is going--

I would never wear an iPod… If this is your primary focus in life - the machines... it’s going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America...

It gets better--

Did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them?

Please... I can't take much more--

I really fear for the United States because, believe me, the jihadists? They’re not playing the video games. They’re killing real people over there.

I am really looking forward to the War on Christmas this year.

(h/t Wonkette)