I totally knew it was a conspiracy!

Oh, you big silly: there are no people in proper markets. As with socialism, they are an abstraction.
The task, then, is to implement something that can operate around 80% of the way there, most of the time.

A properly functioning market would seek a Pareto Optimal point.
Note that I'm not accusing our market of functioning properly.

I was expecting Nader/Gore. Just like you can expect Trump to go independent. Why would you not fund a spoiler on the other side? Simple politics.

Maybe we can agree that we have about shag-all to prove in either direction.

I love you, man.

It's unclear what, if anything, you meant by any of that. Sorry, sir.

I'm cozy where I reside. The burden of proof with you. I have a 'burden' of laughter directed at you, I suppose.

I find out more about my theology through you and d_r than pretty much anyone else. Thanks, gents. Both of you stay lovely.

You're going to have to instruct me how I'm supposed to feel about this accusation, because I'm all Rhett Butler here.

I mean, of course I'm ashamed of my sin. As for you, personally: you blew up the benefit of the doubt long ago. Nothing about morality requires I be a doormat, and I've stood falsely accused enough by you that I always figure that you're setting me up.
Sure, I forgive you. For the past. But the idea that I have some "moral kick-me" in place is specious. Pre-judging you? Only of being human, sir.

Morality is wholly positive; prejudice, negative. Thus, I deem "moral prejudice" an oxymoron.
Morality is fertilizer for the soul. Amorality is nihilism. As C.S. Lewis answered your piffle: “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning"

Oh, I guess the fact that the unborn life can't consent to its murder makes it OK?
My point being, once you've made pleasure the only guide, arbitrary rationalizations are simply a matter of creativity. No one's responsible for anything, least of all their own behavior. Huxley uber-goober.

>nothing but a big troll marathon

Well, the good news about the decadence is that it isn't sustainable.

Daily, my suspicion that the exposure of Lerner's emails would kind of blow away the GOP elite grows just a little bit.
That elite is key to getting JEB nominated, so that the #NoMasBush crowd will help us #PartyLikeIts1992.
Look for a bomb to drop as soon as JEB has the lock.