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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'The Lorax' Review: Ec... · 1 reply · +13 points

Too bad. This is a missed opportunity to teach to the notion of the Tragedy of the Commons. As long as no one owns a resource there is no incentive to conserve it. Even better is that this story has a capitalist solution: let developers own the land producing the resource so they have no incentive to destroy it.

if the town of Thneed-ville sold Trullula tree rights to the Once-ler he wouldn't have had a motive to cut them down to extinction. Because the price of the rights would take into account the perpetual value of Trullula trees, the rights would be more costly that the Once-ler would have to make the resource sustainable to cover payments to Thneed-ville. In turn, sweater prices would reflect this increased cost, and consumption would decrease, placing man in balance with nature.
But in most things environmental such ideas don't make sense. In that laughable world, hope is a method and greed can be "solved" by a government program.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Woody Guthrie's 1942 N... · 0 replies · +7 points

"Take dump on cop car" conspicuously absent.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Occupy Black Friday Pr... · 0 replies · +21 points

"Take control of your money by allowing me to tell you not to spend it here."
What Idiots.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Top 10 Thanksgiving Mo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Not having the WKRP clip removes this list from serious consideration. That episode has to be one of the 30 most funniest TV moments ever.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Code Pink's Jodie Evan... · 0 replies · +5 points

What a bloody hypocrite. Good catch with the camera.

14 years ago @ Big Government - What the Joe Paterno S... · 0 replies · +1 points

You're missing a key difference. A difference bigger than the degree of severity of punishment. If you can't find it, then I can't help you.

George Washington had deserters hung on the Plain at West Point in plain view. I guess he was a monster too.

14 years ago @ Big Government - What the Joe Paterno S... · 3 replies · +4 points

If there were justice in the world, assuming he's found guilty, Sandusky would be led to an open grave he dug himself. He would be cuffed and forced to kneel for the execution, and the state would hand Paterno a pistol with one round and force him to carry out the sentence, else another grave would await him.

No quarter for child rapists. Ever. They must be extinguished from the earth. Those who covered it up? Try out life in PMITA prison. See how they like some payback. See what that 10-year-old went through, and the dozens more that happened after they turned a blind eye.

People wonder how the Holocaust could happen. This is how it could happen. It could happen anywhere where good people stand by while evil triumphs.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Curious Case of Ch... · 0 replies · 0 points

Christophe Waltz's best work was before Inglourious Basterds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7caY2tmKtcM

14 years ago @ Big Government - Super Committee Can Ke... · 1 reply · +1 points

The Mint has been trying to implement the dollar coin for years - not sure this is part of that effort, else Obama would just make an executive order and do it.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Super Committee Can Ke... · 1 reply · +3 points

Why is this so hard? People like dollar bills. The government needs to save money and use coins. How about print a little less dollar bills, and replace with dollar coins? Do this migration over 30 years. You'll realize cost savings immediately.

(Unless, of course, it's fundamentally cheaper to print a bill over minting a coin. I know that assumption underlies the whole program but it should be challenged.)

Actually I thought the Federal Reserve was trying to get rid of the dollar anyway.

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