Why People Shouldn't Ride Bears

Sports Buzz Melaine Walker decides to celebrate winning the 400M hurdles by riding the mascot. It doesn't end well.

I just have the feeling that if you divided the wealth of the world economy by the population then everybody would have plenty.

I hate Marilyn vos Savant, but she actually just did the math last weekend:

The global money supply is about $60 trillion. (Economists call this figure the M3 value; it includes much more than currency.) Say that we take it all—which means that you and Bill Gates would have nothing in the bank—and then distribute it equally among every individual in the world, about 6.8 billion people. Each man, woman, and child would receive about $9000.

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And I'm not sure that cheap = fair value. I think it's more likely to be the opposite. Our clothing is cheap because it's made in Asia & South America, by people who are making a lot less than $9000/year. Same goes for a lot of our food. Corporations can sell these things cheaply because the people who actually made the items are not receiving fair value for their labor.

Why People Shouldn't Ride Bears

Well. WELL. In my head, I'm taking all SORTS of exception to that assertion.

Indeedy.

Are production costs getting so low that the world economy could feasibly house and feed everybody in the world?

I guess the way to address this is by breaking certain things down.

did this with some friends of mine, one english,one spent a lot of time in holland and is an EMT. We were talking medical care and why it is so expensive in the US.

here are things we see as contributing to costs:

1) cost of medical school ( cheaper to free in other countires) less debt, lower saleries

2)Cost of insurance. Which is mostly unneeded in other countries -- I'm talking more malpractice and liability ( even for things like your home). of course the cost of private insurance doesn't help. ( My understanding is that there is rivate insurance in England, for example, but it is on top of the usual - which is decent)

3)overtreatment. -- there is a lot of that in the us by people like EMTs, so they don't get sued.

4) drug cost is development cost s -- and that seems to be pretty universal --

Power outage -- for an hour, so no idea if this is still relavant

I knew that would get one of the gay guys in here fired up(I only know for sure what one is, because I got sucked into that dumb Kathy Griffin show last year. Still like her stand-up, but she embarrasses those people who work for her so much...urk!)

Catching Up

The people at Free Republic are now speculating on whether Obama's foreskin might provide a clue was to whether he was actually born in the US. [link]

Aaaaand it took them just shy of seven months to mention the black guy's cock. Nice work. ::golf claps::

Is it possible to parody Camille Paglia? Or to be more glittery and brittle? Hell I don't even know if Camille Paglia can be considered not low rent. She cites classical literature and popular culture, but since she never gets any of it right I don't see how that counts as high rent. Maybe since she is mostly on the side of rich...

I haven't read a word since she said she had real concerns about Obama's Birth Certificate. Yeah. No.

I assume she's made no mention of his johnson.

Ack...fuckin' freepers just need to die. "Could you just die, Bob?"

ok -- but that posted , which is odd because I had no internet for another hour

Why People Shouldn't Ride Bears

Well. WELL. In my head, I'm taking all SORTS of exception to that assertion.

Different sort of bear.

Speaking of the fur-covered sort, it turns out my kids are on the Colbert tip when it comes to bears. We were in the redwoods last week and my son was worried the whole time that we'd run into one.

I'd like that. Well, obviously not in, like, biting range.