- That drug? It costs us all too much - A guy in Britan is gonna die six months earlier because he has cancer and its too expensive to buy him the drug that will give him six months more of life. Cruel? Maybe, but less cruel than underfunding schools because healthcare is overfunded.. [Dec, 4 2008]
- The Great Wall of Australia - Australia is putting throwing around putting up a content filter for illegal content. But Clive Hamilton, Professor, makes an extremely poor analogy: “The laws that mandate upper speed limits do not stop people from speeding, Does that mean that we should not have those laws?” Uh, no. It means you should put governors on cars preventing them from going any faster than the speed limit. This is that annoying puritanical attitude, that you shouldn't be allowed to do something wrong. You're allowed to kill someone, we just exact a pretty high price for doing so... [Dec, 14 2008]
- Seattle refuses to use salt; roads "snow packed" by design - Let me sum this up for you: Seattle is criminally incompetent in managing snow on roads.. [Dec, 24 2008]