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Clearly you haven't understood anything I've written. But you'll forgive me if I don't start over.

Or a simple "Thanks" button could be provided with a running total under his name of the number of Thanks the poster has received, and possibly the ratio of Thanks he's received to the total number of posts he's made (so that even relatively new members can earn a high ratio). I think TMF does...

So, sooner or later, probably sooner, open carry will be universal, regardless of local statutes. Open carry, that is, of guns that are carried for "self-defense". Add to this the increasing popularity of "stand your ground" laws. You have your gun. He has his. He looks at you in what you...

"Can it be reversed? Yes. Will it be reversed? Eventually, if we can survive long enough." When I said the above, I wasn't factoring in the seeming increasing desire to just shoot them all. I'm waiting for the gunfights to start outside abortion clinics and welfare offices. Where's...

It would appear to be the next step . . .

Given 1a's fondness for playing Gotcha, you may be right.

Or, put another way, mobs of Marleys and only a handful of Fezziwigs.

If you're talking about pure capitalism, perhaps. But we don't have that anymore than we have pure democracy. What we have -- or are in the process of developing -- is a Dickensian-style capitalism that subverts the ideal.

Something for the Tea Party to be truly proud of: Republican Congressional Nominee: A Woman Can Run for Office With Husband's Permission Hice has many colorful opinions, such as arguing that Americans should be allowed to own bazookas, Islam isn't a religion deserving of First Amendment...

So in other words you'll just dither with your charts and do nothing at all until it is most likely too late to do anything? What will your children say then?

What difference does it make? Are you going to wait until the water reaches your chin before you act?

Detroit Shuts Off Water to Residents but Not to Businesses Who Owe Millions DETROIT — In Detroit, even the most basic necessity cannot be taken for granted. Some 15,000 residential customers have lost water service, and tens of thousands more are in danger of losing it, thanks to past...

Too bad the American man-on-the-street hasn't thought about this as much as you have. I wonder if Doritos are infused with a mind-control drug.

You think about this stuff while riding? :) Democracy and capitalism are essentially incompatible. This became clear about 30 years ago when the emphasis shifted toward corporate profits and the lower and middle class were left pretty much hanging. Can it be reversed? Yes. Will it be...

Depends on how one defines "our". There are those who believe that the members of a society should care for each other. And there are those who believe that it should be every man for himself. Combining the two creates problems.

Can you elaborate, if you care to do so? It has always seemed to me that "moral behavior" stems more from logic than anything natural, depending on how one defines "natural". All groups form for essentially the same reasons: protection, shared tasks, shared rewards, even "strength in numbers"...

One wonders -- if one thinks about it at all -- how much of this is learned and how much is wired in. When I was growing up and for most of my adulthood, I assumed it was learned. But given the advances in neurology and brain chemistry in recent years, I can't help but wonder if that's all there...

September, 2011: The candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination are a pretty scary bunch — remember, one of them stands a reasonably good chance of becoming the leader of the free world in about 17 months — and the two-hour display on CNN last night was a depressing...

Kristen Bell's Mary Poppins Takes On Minimum Wage With A Spoonful Of Sugar You'd think that a nanny with magical powers would merit more than $7.25 an hour, but apparently not in this economy. Kristen Bell stars as a struggling Mary Poppins in Funny or Die's latest video, unable to make ends...

It doesn't imply anything unless one is looking for subtext. I had already said that Baucus was one of the chief reasons why single payer was abandoned. But I haven't dwelled on it. What's done is done.