Not exactly. The Russians are arming a mass murdering dicatator, the Americans are arming the allies of al-Qaeda. The responsible thing would be to do neither.

Sad about it, I agree with you. But only that.

That's muddle-headed thinking. Be proud or ashamed of your own actions, not those of strangers.

Since mods use Troll as a substitute for "I think you're wrong" about opinions, perhaps they're just also using it that way now for facts.

You know your civil liberties are in trouble when you're desperate enough to pretend that involving the UN wouldn't be an even bigger anti-freedom clusterfuck.

Read below, I already responded to why I don't think it matters what would work best in a clean room implementation of economics, and it's not from being thick or simplistic (although nice ad hominem there).

Okay, that was kind of flippant of me. And in theory I can see how you're right. In practice, though, I doubt once the situation is so dire that even those in Congress are willing to implement far reaching spending cuts, I don't think they'll still have the luxury of deciding how they'll go about it -- I think they'll just keep up the pretence that they can spin gold out of straw until it all crashes.

So you'd rather pull the band-aid off a little at a time than just rip it off and get it over with?

Life of Sigh?

How can they if it's really all open source?

Your friends aren't named Mal, Inara, and Jayne, are they?

Especially MacBeth?

Thank you for this. Given all the haterade flowing around here, I was starting to think I was the only person who thought this was a great movie.

Or, maybe Charles realises how lucky he is to be a 64-year-old whose parents are both alive and well and hopes the day never comes when he takes on that "job". The Windsors may not impress me, but don't strike me as being like the Borgias.

Heh, you're right, that was a pretty big whoosh. On the other hand, it doesn't mean you have to be an asshole.