ivan

uncommonly creative for a tarheel

rich people - duh, like everything else since the beginning of fucking time - wtf does it matter what their names are exactly or how many of them there are?

monty python's the meaning of life: "at least i don't work for jews"

why is good?where is yes?how is blue? why the fuck don't more people worry about this!?!

clearly, the only solution to this tragedy is a flat-tax and the repeal of obamany-care!!!

some of my best friends are smiths

this totally sounds like a job for 007...of g.i. joe...or maybe santa clause!

"you can't reason people out of positions they were never reasoned into in the first place"

that woulda been bill hicks

i see whatcha did there

danse macabre!

Private prisons and pet care. the kardashians appear to be doing a damn fine job of taking over the world as well

holy shit, "why pres die" made 2 pages?! wtf did that even mean, so long as i'm here?

ya gotta have pix for the tr or it no-no count, senor - if ya got nothing, you can always do before n' after shoots of yer 'nards?

i'd say an article like this argues they're much no more than a happy-go-lucky supporter of the gov at pretty much anytime: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/16/137222043/why-the-war-powers-act-doesnt-work the wierd thing of course is i have no real problem w/ bombing libya - seems like the war powers act has it right - homeboy should ask if it's cool w/ the congress, though goddammit you know that wouldn't be much better...

if only the "tolerable administration of justice" didn't cover slavery in all its many forms "From the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by free men comes cheaper in the end than the work performed by slaves. Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." " * There is not a negro from the coast of Africa who does not, in this respect, possess a degree of magnanimity which the soul of his sordid master is too often scarce capable of conceiving. Fortune never exerted more cruelly her empire over mankind, than when she subjected those nations of heroes to the refuse of the jails of Europe, to wretches who possess the virtues neither of the countries which they come from, nor of those which they go to, and whose levity, brutality, and baseness, so justly expose them to the contempt of the vanquished." "This disposition to admire, and almost to worship , the rich and powerful, and to despise , or , at least neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments." ~same guy. I think you'd enjoy reading his stuff if you haven't already. i like the enlightenment fellows just fine, damn near all of them, though their work makes poor night-time work for me i fear smith and jefferson and those fine folk were torn by the systems they perpetuated, still they persisted in them - the slavery of today of course in most metrical ways is far more splendid, but it still has the stink of a slaveship - ahh, i'm content enough

i've always admired adam smith, and practically all economists, for embracing that age-old mantra of social studies teachers: if ya can't dazzle them brilliance, baffle them with bullshit!

i'm sure i've heard virtue well spoken of, and of vice, the rumors about me are so very overstated:)

if only the "tolerable administration of justice" didn't cover slavery in all its many forms

jay's monkey scenario is apt enough - the people's budget gets nowhere b/c they have no party - there are only 2 parties, and ultimately they differ on very little - dem monkies are in league w/ each other, and they'll be goddamned if any other monkies gonna hone in our their bananas - even the genuine good ones among them are overwhelmed by the scale of it all

mississippi, like greece, has a fine honking engine encouraging emmigration

think i agree w/ all what you said but the "dysfunctional" bit - like all living things, our society is a shit-to-shoe-level one, just good enough to get by w/ predators and prey and hazy natural laws governing it all - its functioning they way it always has been - still, no reason to not want to change it and make it better, as you see the meaning of better, and i agree government regulation is a big part of that

sounds like just the opposite, east vs west? the side nearest beacon i hobbled back up, easy as punch - the end w/ the crazy switchbacks is the shite one, kids-wise

i sure as hell wouldn't want to hike my kids down the w side entrance at the 'zone/side - holy shit, you could roll a long, long way down that slope

think ben's been warming to the reality that i demanded he lead the hollow flake what's adam doing down there? think old justin might be about too, hanging out w/ the missus?