Even as a sardine is just a bird with an altitude problem.

Are you, AC, implying that America has stooped so low as to resort to mass imports of cheap south american guns, and guns banged together from over-the-counter ingredients and household chemicals in clandestine workshops, to satisfy our craving for firepower?

You filthy communist. We do sometimes dabble in exotic european guns, just as we do with club drugs; but that's different.

I, for one, would raise my most skeptical of eyebrows at the 'since Obama was elected' part.

The feds have had something of a mutually acrimonious relationship with some of the more enthusiastic personalities you find at gun shows since at least the very early 90's, probably earlier. If, say, Timothy McVeigh wasn't enough to inspire a few zillion man-hours in stakeouts, I'm not entirely sure what would.

The claims of surveillance I find fairly credible; but for it to have started in 2008 would have required that our hysteria over scary terrorist muslims completely blind the various relevant agencies to their ongoing togetherness problems with domestic militia movements and the like. Those certainly took on a lower priority; but there must have been some feds whose pallor and utter lack of arabic language proficiency made them a poor fit for higher profile work.

If there is such a thing as 'the sound of the NRA deciding that maybe the can agree with the American Communist Lawyers Union on something', I suspect this is what it sounds like.

ohh yea, the invented copy and paste.

The problem with that is that it has to be live streaming video or else sports fans won't be interested. For some weird reason, they just can't stand to watch sports if it's not live.

There is no particular reason to believe this will be expensive. It is just some RNA, which can be inexpensively replicated. Even if it is patented, it is likely that someone else can some up with a similar technique, making it a competitive market, and driving down prices.

If you really want to be a pessimist, you should instead focus on how this is going to bankrupt Social Security. People are going to retire at 65, and then collect benefits for the next 55 years.

Anyone else get the sickening sense that 'lengthen your telomeres!!' pitches would be a nearly perfect successor to the historical deluge of penis-pill spam?

Er no. Definitely not a closed system.

You seem on poor terms with the muse of language. I take it that you mean "usually" when you say always. Well, I know you do because we argued round this circle before. Debating with you is difficult because you lack precision in your language and so your points come across as very confused.

Women always invest more in offspring.

Most kids get raised as part of a family. that seems very much like pooling resources to me.

I've stated that by the very nature of sexual reproduction the males job is to spread genes, the females to produce offspring.

And producing offspring isn't spreading genes? The purpose of sexual reproduction is to spread genes.

Don't even think about arguing this, as you explicitly stated that you agree with this in a previous post.

Nope.

You claimed I believed all this in spite of evidence to the contrary.

What evidence?

You have not produced any evidence to the contrary, but rather argued that your anecdotes are sufficient to disprove peer reviewed meta studies

what peer reviewed metastudies? You never gave any, you merely asserted they existed.

Let's just be like the rest of the world and stop taxing corporations. We'll save billions on trying to collect.

Then, tax capital gains like every other income. And jack up the maximum tax bracket. 50% at 1MM. No tax shelters. None. Only exception is unincorporated small business which can be inherite exempt up to 10MM.

Labor is a poor man's capital. A rich man's capital should be taxed at the same rate.

If the GOP likes the 1950s so much, let's tax them like it is the 1950s.

The problem with watching these things on cable is that you then have to watch commercials.

A better solution is to just download them on BitTorrent.