Hard to charge that electric when the power cuts out twice a day.

Is this post really supporting the notion that web search should be a public utility controlled by the gov't rather than a corporation? I really hope not...

Except, you know, for the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But other then blatantly violating a bedrock law of American capitalism that has been on the books for 70+ years they were perfectly within their rights...

We do in fact have absolute assloads of easily accessible coal. It is bad from a pollution standpoint, but in a world where it is raining dilute sulfuric acid and ash for a decade or so we won't care much. Coal will suffice for a mid- to late-19th century level of technology within a fairly short period of time. The much greater problm is we will all die of starvation before that.

One hundred percent this. My wife is a Canadian citizen and we used to go see her parents in Toronto by bus, but after our last trip back through the US border on our way home we have agreed that we will never cross by land ever again. We will just have to save up a bit more and take the plane, where for some reason the border guards are somewhat better behaved, maybe because they are dealing with people who can afford plane tickets. They are simply animals at the land crossings though. Sadistic animals. I have more then once watched them pretty much abusing old people they knew spoke very limited/no English simply because they were brown. The Canadian agents, by contrast, have been almost unfailingly polite to me, even the one trip I realized that I had left my passport 12 hours away in NYC. I showed the guard the ring I was planning to propose with instead :)

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Damn carp.

I second a recommendation of Sumatra.

You do understand that you can tell it you bought something as a gift and to ingore it in recommendations,right? /you're welcome.

You are incorrect. GE is by and large a financial services company now.

It was a false dichotomy before and is still a false dichotomy, so nothing happened to it?

He obviously thinks we should 'win' like Alexander 'won' in the area now known as Afghanistan, i.e. by killing every male inhabitant between 8 and 80. This is of course a silly course of action, along the lines of the famous Vietnam quote about having to destroy the village in order to save it. This is why foreign policy should not be planned by the moral equivalent of Internet Toug Guys.

60% of foreign-owned bills, but not 60% of all bills.

Personally I would have to say that I want to help his faithful. I want everyone who feels that Glenn Beck is a reasonable source for rational opinion to have the opportunity to say so loudly and frequently. It is important that we are able to identify these people.

It's a sad and frightening thing that a society needs no individual evil mastermind or set of masterminds in order to stumble it's way into dystopia. The banal personal agendas of everyone, from those in political and economic power to your neighbors, are all that is required.

And that axis is also circular. All possible sociopolitical axes are simply a balance between radical ideology and practical moderation.