"They're always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case," says Puzder in regard to replacing employees with machines." And, even more importantly, they never fail to understand an order, regardless of the speaker's accent, special orders don't upset them, they need no maintenance, need no repair, never crash, and, if they don't work out, they can easily be fired and replaced with a walk-in, simply by placing a "HELP WANTED" sign in the window.

"we also seem to have a big distaste for socialism (again, actual socialism, not welfare.)" A difference that makes no difference, given that "we" clearly have a *much* greater distaste for genuine welfare - "giving my hard-earned wages to the lazy, shiftless, undeserving (i.e. black) poor!" - than "we" have for supposed "socialism."

How do the consequences of long-term use of cannabis compare to the consequences of long-term use of alcohol and nicotine? Disclosure: I ask this as an eighty-year-old retiree from Harvard University with lung cancer married to a woman who is a seventy-year-old alcoholic retiree from Harvard with lung cancer who has a sister with lung cancer and whose pulmonologist is a dead man walking with lung cancer. I started smoking when I was thirteen, my wife when she was sixteen. Do we get high? No. Did we used to get high? Of course, fifty years ago. Why did we quit? Well, as far as we can tell, pot is non-addictive and we just got tired of it. Why didn't we also stop drinking and smoking? Well, nicotine and alcohol are *unbelievably* addictive, as far as we can tell. You can't cold-turkey those two drugs. I still smoke a pipe and my wife still drinks wine. We have a neighbor with lung cancer who still smokes cigarettes. We had a neighbor who died of lung cancer 23 years after he quit smoking tobacco. By comparison, the only thing dangerous about cannabis is that it's illegal. "Gateway drug"? Bullshit. *Every single narcotics addict*, without a *single* exception, has been born. BIRTH is the *real* gateway drug!

"high protein requirements, enjoyed fucking too much, lazy, physically slow, too peaceful, lacked motivation, whatever" Sounds like black Americans to me!

An American company, back in the '80's, tried to introduce the measure, "one metric gallon," defined as consisting of four standard liters, as the name for the volume of its product - industrial-grade, liquid hand-soap - held by the company's standard containers. Possibly, this idea was inspired by the existence of the "metric tonne." IAC, it didn't work, for reasons of which I am unaware, and the company reverted to using "four liters."

The next thing that you know, someone will suggest that pot be legalized! Where will it stop? What has happened to our sense of morality? Of our God-given right - nay, our duty! - to police the acts of other people, precisely those cases in which the person accused has done nothing more than to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? OTOH, if you're the kind of simple fool who responds positively to "How about sending me a picture of you giving head?", then, you're kind of asking for it.

What if, in addition to asthma, you have acrophobia, like me? My first ride on a roller coaster - in 1956 - was my last. I'm still fucked, I guess.

I'm 73 and my mother is 97. We both use iMacs. I recommend this box highly to other seniors and to the children thereof.

"There was no scientific consensus that Neanderthal was stupid." There's a greater "scientific" consensus that blacks are stupid. The number of Web sites that assert the "truth" of this claim is probably 100x the number of sites that make the same claim WRT the Neanderthals.