And by the way, how can a war be “on drugs”?! (I guess that would be a good way to tolerate war! One might be a little less afraid of dieing.)

Jason, politics will argue that you don’t need the “prostate exam”! I is not cost effective, because elderly men who get it, usually do not die from the prostate cancer. That is just one, of the many, stupid ideas they get!

Yeah…federal bureaucrats dictating when and how I get my “prostate exam.” What’s new?
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Don’t we all. Thanks for tolerating me, Radley. :)

As for Friedman, who gives a fuck. One more pathetic shill for the ruling class. Another barren yet regrowable branch on the tree of Statism. Cut it off — does the tree die?

What about striking the root?

http://www.strike-the-root.com

I’m no Bush fan, but that Economist article was somewhat misguided: the mag simply could have written, “this is what happens when a republican follows keynesian economic theory and practices and openly liberal political philosophy, with the added touch of feel-good christianism”. The last paragraph is spot-on, though.

FWIW, when I was a teenager, my friends and I would smoke massive amounts of pot, put on the TV, turn off the sound, and put on our favorite music.

The music always seemed to accompany the action on the screen. Marvelous stuff.

Random order.

That was metaphysically unfortunate. The uncanny, detailed nuances of its awfulness — down to the song selection and the way the context created by the scene before the commercial ruined all of the ad director’s oh-so-artful shot selections — makes me nearly believe in predestination. It just seems as if this was somehow meant to happen, so seamlessly does the ad fit with the clip, thereby nullifying the former’s value as a commercial pitch for the product in question.

At some level I recognize that this is utterly hilarious, but I’m just sitting here stunned by the whole thing.

I now have that lighthouse as my desktop simply amazing.