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Ya see Enco?

These guys know of what they speak. They have lived it.

Enco,

Where can we go with this? Lets see. You are attributing the high cost of health care to medicare and medicaid. At least you have given a toot to inflation. But Ya say when someone else pays the provider has no reason to hold down costs. Private insurers pay. Those are businesses. Yet the costs are feckin ridiculous. Do you want to outlaw…[Read more]

Pope is going bannanies.

I honestly believe the measure of a healthy democracy is not just how easy it is to get rid of a bad government or how tolerable life is for the homeless but how easy it is to manage monopolies and tax them.

Yes sir.

Any undue concentration of power is antithetical to the interests of the many.

Enco, you shuck and jive to stay alive but you are substance deprived.

My point about Bezos and Musk is twofold. We have regulations and anti-trust laws and have arrived at massive corporate power that creates a shocking gap in wealth. Presumably in a pure libertarian capitalist nation the state of affairs would be magnified. Is reduced taxation…[Read more]

Hey Enco., Burn Dawg Sanders was quoted as saying two guys (Bezos and Musk) have greater wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans. If so it is roughly two guys v. 131 million and two guys wins. Are you good with that result? Law of the jungle? Big cats eat dik diks, right? You want pure libertarian Atlas shit himself dynamics, right? We had…[Read more]

There is a sugar pie?

What else am i missing out on?

Kristina,

i am only crackin and smackin my lips from the maple syrup i am trackin being heuristic as i tapped that maple tree that was there for all to see with a flag of vermont that was meant to be too jingoistic so i hung it from the highest tree so very high only an eagle could see.

Don’t tread on sugar.

Love, love, love me sugar. Why do you suppose lovers are so wont to call each other Sugar. Sugar is pure. Sugar is real and sugar sure gives a boost.

Apropos of nothing i once had a client threaten to kill me. Next day there was sugar cane on my car. I thought that bastard is gonna try something. Then i found out my gf…[Read more]

Enco, I think you have mischaracterized the purported misconception in re to the doctrine or notion of free marketplace of ideas. You wrote, “A free marketplace does not equal uncritical acceptance of everything anybody offers.” I have not come across anybody who would define it that way. On the contrary the formulation and understanding is nearly…[Read more]

Reg, i was gonna say sumpin bout islamaphobia. The ponies diverted my attention. But You nailed it. I say that cuz you said what i would have said. Ya can’t conflate individuals with the institution. I was reminded of the exchange between Ben something or other (famous actor) and Sam Harris on Maher’s show. Also was reminded of another neologism…[Read more]

Yeah Robert i guess pho is like sourdough. It gets better and better as we get closer to our demise.

When butter meets jam worlds are colliding. Worlds that ought never be aware of one another. Make me emperor and i will impose dietary laws based on my sensibilities. This is no topic to take lightly. There are a grouping of man made mixes of…[Read more]

Unseen, i am with you on not toasting bagels. But if they’re stale i do toast em. I will add another don’t. Don’t mix jam and butter. Just don’t do it. It is an abomination. There is no topping that can compare to c c on a bagel. A good bakery has better c c than Philly or some store brand. Thoughts to nosh on…

That looks good Reg. It is not a traditional NY style bakery but so what? If they have holly and you have not tried it then give it a whirl.

NY really does have good bagels but maybe California has surpassed em.

Does a good bakery ever go out of business?

Store breads are usually mediocre or suck. Good bread is like gold. There is some nutritional alchemy for you.

Simon says we got the drive to thrive.

Beliefs or the lack will not hinder that drive. Ain’t enough to simply be alive. We aint livin. We is alive!
Slap me five for my gibber jabber jive.

Enco., i am with you on woo and on all forms of pontificating, lying, self-serving tripe. We ought not tolerate it. But the majority of humans are no better than monkeys in discriminating between what is valid/real and what is not. The free marketplace of ideas is failing us. It always has. But now we have large numbers of humans who get their bad…[Read more]