You're right. There oughtta be a law.

Well, yes, but that's not what we're talking about.

I agree with you that it's nasty and smelly and I avoid it like the plague. But I don't have the right to tell some guy what behaviors he can't allow in his place. If people want to get together and eat and smoke, then the right thing for me to do is to simply not go there.

It's immoral to stop me from growing a seventh.

If I own a restaurant or other property and I want to let people smoke there, it's wrong for you to stop me.

Yes, I wonder about that. The exact chronology there could be very illuminating.

So I see from Wikipedia and other sources that he is married to professor Mary Collins, immunologist. I wonder how she feels about him falling in love with women in the workplace. I know my wife doesn't take too kindly to that.

I was using Yahoo maps before Google maps, and I've been using Google maps a lot longer than 8 years.

I agree with you that 3 is better than 2, and I definitely don't want to see 1. But I believe the whole system of giving anybody control is broken and wrong. Most of the powers the government has need to be eliminated - they were wrong when kings exercised them, it became slightly better (by some measures) when we started voting on people taking turns exercising them, and it might be slightly better if we had more choices on who to vote in for tyrant each term. But the ultimately solution is to not give those powers out at all.

Then there can be three sets of clowns pretending to have substantively different views while all favoring the expansion of government power.

I'd say nobody's ever served by having an angry outburst, but certainly those of us who have been enjoying adfree netflix viewing are bothered by the idea of ads being inserted. This is clearly a decrease in value and for many of us it may be enough to prompt us to look for alternatives.