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.

I may have gotten a wee bit carried away with the spaghetti pie. It weighs maybe six eight ten pounds or so.

I'm not sure how much of that is cheese. Or meat.

Hm.

Hate eating out!

Bad Angeleno! Bad!

Remind me not to panic tomorrow when I walk outside and my car is not in front of the house. They're replacing the water main this week, so I have to park around the corner (my garage isn't usable yet.)

But that's like an old English tradition.

So was scurvy, once upon a time.

Also sodomy, rum and the lash.

I usually don't see the appeal of starch on starch foods, which seem to be an English tradition. There's baked beans on toast, mushy peas on bread and baked beans on baked potatoes.

I also shudder at sandwiches made of canned pineapple or bananas on Wonder Bread slathered with mayonnaise, which are common in some parts of the South. Then there are mayonnaise sandwiches. Mayonnaise on bread is not a sandwich, it's a step on the way to a sandwich.

And I'm not sure that cheap = fair value.

There is that. The Global Economy then exploits local market inefficiencies by paying less than fair value for labor.

$9,000 a year isn't going to make it. At least not an industrialized country. It's fine in Senegal.

I wonder what the number would have to be before people said, "Hey, this system doesn't make any sense."

But, of course, since value is defined by market forces you can't really say "it costs this much to make that thing" - because the cost is affected by supply/demand pressures.

I'm not sure if even superlow production costs mean anything since there's no impetus to over supply something and kill the market.

I guess it's the Star Trek economy. If somebody built a cheap replicator would it destroy capitalism?

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.

OMG, they're not just due date twins, our 2005 model children are matched in their bear fear!