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Summarizing my current view of politcs as a primarily tribal activity, which generates much heat and little light, and has very little to do with how we run our country/state/city.

I remember when I was a kid my family had these little plastic handles that fit on the end of toothpaste tubes to provide a better mechanical advantage when squeezing toothpaste out. These days toothpaste tubes are made out of soft plastic and even kids have no trouble squeezing them.

Do not use for any other purpose other than for access control or identification. Do not leave in direct sun light, for example on the dash of your car. Do not expose to extreme heat or open flame. For example, clothes dryers or clothes irons. Do not expose to organic solvents, thinners, mineral spirits, etc. […]

Michael Moore says the US is not broke: all “we the people” need to do is take the money back from the fat cat billionaires. What if we took this advice? Let’s imagine expropriating some of the wealth of the richest man in America, William Gates III. Forbes says he’s worth about $54 billion, of […]

Kling: “One point about the Great Substitution of leisure for work is that leisure escapes taxation. That raises all sorts of issues. ” Non-consumption tax. Video game tax. Sitting around tax. Doing nothing tax. Mental activity tax. Oh wait, that last one is basically thoughtcrime. What, did the US suddenly get Canada envy?