Reason Morning Links: We Need A Happy Meal Tunnel

• The Fed spends $600 billion.
• Next in line to chair the Monetary Policy Subcommittee: Ron Paul.
• San Francisco bans the happy meal.
• The great marijuana tunnel.
• The Hayek/Keynes rap: the sequel.

Comments

[Trespassers W]

San Francisco bans the happy meal.

Goodbye, child obesity epidemic!

Well done, benevolent overlords, well done.

[?]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant meals for children.

An editorial in the lede. Stay classy, Reuters.

[Reuters]

We sincerely apologize for the sentence, which unfortunately slipped by a novice editor. The sentence should have read, "San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away cheap and dangerous toys with unhealthy restaurant meals for children."

Reuters regrets the omission.

[Steve]

McDonald's 'food' isn't good for us to eat. We all pay for each others health care through taxes and insurance, so I fail to see this as an issue. Obesity starts in childhood so this is about saving lives because it is obvious that this will reduce childhood obesity.

[Juanita]

Jane, I know that's you!

[-]

We all pay for each others health care through taxes and insurance...this is about saving lives

That strategy died Tuesday night. America wants to kick your nanny ass.

[dbcooper]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

You may actually believe that. How cute.

[JW]

B-.

All the proregressive elements are there, but it lacks that certain spittle-flicking outrage.

[Montani Semper Liberi]

Just say what you really mean Steve. Poor people are too stupid to raise their children.

[#]

thats basically what hes saying.

[.]

Face it - if they were all that smart, they wouldn't have children in the first place. Just keeps them poor.

[Evolution]

Gonna have to disagree.

[Ska]

I'm moving up to more than 2 packs a day so I can get my money's worth.

[Mr. FIFY]

You're right, Steve. We need a Dietary Czar to tell us what we are allowed to eat.

/sarcasm

[BrokeBroker]

There is a first lady joke to make in re but I'm too lazy to find one.

[nekoxgirl]

Using the same logic, obese people tend to die earlier than non-obese people, so wouldn't letting some people get really fat actually save society money? It would lessen the burden on Social Security and Medicare.

Listen up everybody! Eat your fast food and hurry up and die! Stop taking my Social Security!

[Pope Jimbo]

Even better would be to stop paying cash benefits to seniors. Instead ship them a bunch of smokes and booze. They can either use them or sell them for cash.

The goal would be to hasten the end so that the gubbment could save money.

[prolefeed]

That's some fine trolling, Steve. Did it hurt to put yourself into the mindset of people who literally feel they should put people in prison if those people have the audacity to sell toys along with inexpensive kid's food?

[marlok]

The most important element is getting to take away a child's simple joy of eating a happy meal with his friends.

It's good to feel that power once in awhile.

[gaijin]

really?

[Hey, Steve]

Will you please commit ObamaCare-supported suicide to save the rest of us some "cash".

[Mike Laursen]

If I took my kid to a San Francisco McDonald's, my #1 concern wouldn't be whether he eats a Happy Meal. It would be how many homeless dudes he has to step over.

[Homeless dude]

Spare toys?

[prolefeed]

Fortunately, there aren't many people with kids in San Francisco.

[Just Sayin']

Because of teh gayz?

[Mike Laursen]

Because of the self-absorption.

[Andrew Lynch]

Steve Laursen, as of Tuesday, it is illegal in SF for people to sit or lie on sidewalks between 7AM and 11PM, so your children would not have to step over anybody. They might have to step AROUND the cops who are citing the people on the sidewalk, but that's another story.

[Andrew Lynch]

Ooops, I meant Mike Laursen.

[Ben Bernanke]

Next in line to chair the Monetary Policy Subcommittee: Ron Paul.

Wait, isn't he that kook who wants to audit the Federal Reserve?

[CoyoteBlue]

Who's ya daddy, Bitch?

[Brett L]

Might as well change your last name to Dover.

[Joe M]

Zing!

[JW]

Fuck.
'n.
A.

I don't think much, if anything, will change, but it certainly will be entertaining.

[waffles]

The Fed spends $600 billion.

On election day you were telling us 500,000,000,000 dollars. I guess we really need 20% more, you know to be "aggressive" against deflation. Our savings rate is appallingly high.

Also 20 tons of brick weed, what's the street value? I get $2,850,000 assuming short tons and a $5/g price for mids (aka mexican weed) at the consumer level. That's big business.

[Rich]

Why doesn't the Fed simply "buy up" all our debt and then, as the owner, *destroy it*?

[Jordan Elliot]

:Ted: "Whoa..."

[Mr Whipple]

Then there would be no currency in circulation. Our currency is based on debt. The dollar in your pocket does not represent anything tangible. It is only a claim on somebody else's debt. So, if there is no debt, there is no dollar.

[Mr Whipple]

"There is no spoon."

[Mr Whipple]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzm8kTIj_0M

[Rich]

Thanks, Mr. Whipple. I think I get it now. The debt is *already* destroyed, since it doesn't really exist, right?

Hey, can I borrow a dollar to buy a spoon?

[Silentz]

Not quite true. If the Fed bought all of our debt, there would be another $10T in currency out there. The Treasury creates the debt, not the Fed. They'd have to print oodles of cash to buy the debt, and that would end up in the system. We'd go from zero to Weimar in a heartbeat.

[Aresen]

Odd you mention that. I just took my 100,000 Mark note from 1922 out to look at it today.

I want to get a one of those billion Zibabwean Dollar bank notes.

[kinnath]

I can go the opposite way. I still have a Russian penny around. That would be 1/100 of a ruble before they chopped three zeros of the 1,000 ruble paper certificate. That gives the coin a face value of 1 one-hundred-thousandth of a ruble.

[PapayaSF]

I have a 500 million mark note from that period. They got into the billions, but those are a bit scarce and pricey today.

[Jim]

People say fiat has no value.

[Virginia]

Someone forgot to tell the Fed that money's already cheap. Lots of that fiat currency will flow to developing economies... Brazil et al will retaliate with currency wars, protectionism, and capital controls. American companies' costs of business will increase due to rising commodity/input prices.

All this equals continued contraction of our private sector.

[Almanian]

I hope that when The Rapture comes, it starts in San Fran. Idiots...

[The Bible]

It won't be in your lifetime because I've been fucking with you this whole time! Haha!

[Aresen]

Considering the Biblical prohibitions against sodomy, I doubt many San Franciscans will be among the called.

[Captain Awesome]

Prove the rapture hasn't already happened...

[Montani Semper Liberi]

So now instead of getting the smaller fries and burger in a Happy Meal, the kids will get the same Super Size double quarter pounder with cheese meal that mommy and daddy get. Way to go SF.

[Ronald McDonald]

* laughs up sleeve *

[Jordan Elliot]

:loud clapping:

Bravo sir. Bravo. I am going to tell this to a few people and watch their souls die a little when they realize that's what will happen.

[?]

It takes effect on December 1.

12/1/2010: Burgernacht.

[The Other Kevin]

This is a good point. Because a larger meal off the dollar menu is a lot cheaper than a Happy Meal.

[?]

Ironically, after Dec. 1 you'll still be able to get a Happy Meal in Beijing and Moscow.

[Mr Whipple]

But it doesn't come with a toy. I wanna toy, I wanna toy I wanna toy.

[Invisible Finger]

Next up: SF tells McDonald's what their prices will be.

[?]

Anyway, all the franchisees have to do is remove the toys from the bags and give them to the parents with their meals.

[nekoxgirl]

Or just sell them separately from the kid's meal.

[Aresen]

SF tells McDonald's what their prices will be.

23 cents.

With a $24.77 'fat tax'.

[Rhywun]

Read my mind. That's basically how cigarettes are priced too.

[Slut Bunwalla]

Stupid bitch gets angry at DeviantArt because they won't let her identify her stupid, made-up gender on her profile info:
http://transfinite.dreamwidth.org/215469.html

Maybe they just hadn't considered that non-binary people used their site? Or, well, existed. It wouldn't be the first time. I got a response from a user named realitysquared, aka Daniel Sowers Jr., the site's Copyright & Etiquette Administration manager:

Thank you for contacting deviantART, I will be assisting you with your support ticket.

A relatively recent redesign of our profile setting page now requires that you designate yourself as being male or female.

If you do not wish to designate your gender and prefer to deactivate your account due to being forced to make this choice then you may do so if you choose.

Missing the point much? It's not that I do not wish to designate my gender, but that I am unable to with their current setup. I replied letting him know as much:

It's not that I "do not wish" to designate my gender. I wouldn't mind doing so, actually! But I can't with the options you offer. I am not male and I am not female. Therefore, I CANNOT designate my gender. It's as though you offered a box for users to designate their race and only listed white and black. You missed the entire point of my support request.

The word "mansplain" is used in the post. Comments section features many idiots absolutely AGHAST at this horrible tragedy.

[Furbie]

Xe's neutrois. It's not a made-up gender. You could look it up.

[Slut Bunwalla]

There is no entry for neutoris on Wikipedia. Also, I've been reading SugarFree's feministing/jezebel links for years and have never seen the term. I'm saying it's made up for people who want to be edgy and post-gender.

The author of the post is clearly female anyway since she's such a whiny, entitled bitch.

[Furbie]

Here ya go, Slut.

[Slut Bunwalla]

I already googled it. All results on the first page linked to gender- or neutrois-specific sites. How about something a little more authoritative?

[mr simple]

That's funny, the first site on the google says they are trying to gain recognition of neutrois as a status. Just because something has a website doesn't mean it's not made up. It sounds more like a psychological disorder.

[Azathoth]

All the extra 'genders' are made up. On this planet there are two functional sexes, male and female. Every single sexualized action is based on those two sexes. Every one of these 'genders' is based in utilizing portions of those sexualized actions at whim.

The few who have nonstandard genitalia generally want standard genitalia--and the exceedingly few among them who do not are so few as not to matter in instances such as this.

Neutrosis is fake. 'Transfinite' is female. It may pretend to some neuter or intersex state, but it has a functioning vagina and female genetic state--as it admits.

[Kolohe]

Actually if anyplace should accept boys being girls and girls being boys (and everyone being part elf or fox or some other random mammal) it's deviantart.

[Maybe]

Maybe they think deviant is deviating from what people think deviant should be!?

[waffles]

Deviantart is the internet breeding ground for furries, yeah? Truly a vile place, though I'm glad it exists. Be you man, woman, fox, rabbit, or all of the above as long as you stay on deviantart and away from me, let your freak flag fly.

[Fluffy]

Since I'm sure their claim of being an artist is probably a lie, why not go the whole way and lie about your gender as well?

If Reason made us register, every answer I'd put on my registration would be false. Why? Because it's not like my actual name is FLUFFY, so who gives a fuck?

[capitol l]

Because it's not like my actual name is FLUFFY, so who gives a fuck?

I am shocked. Shocked!

sincerely,

Capitol Farnsworth Lewis

[Nick]

Shit. You guys aren't using your real names?

[Max]

Only pussies don't use their real name.

[Jason]

That's right, Edward.

[COMMANDER]

Right, Max.

[Alex]

Couldn't they just add "Other" to the list? Can't be too difficult.

[PapayaSF]

Or "Hard to say" or "It's complicated."

[wingnutx]

I vote for "soup sandwich".

[Sexual Designate]

Our post-gender society cannot come too soon for me.

Actually, let me rephrase that ....

[DanD]

If you do not wish to designate your gender and prefer to deactivate your account due to being forced to make this choice then you may do so if you choose.

I bet she was shaking with rage after reading that.

"Bu-bu-but...I'm entitled for you to address my bitch-ass identity crisis!"

[Abdul]

She? She!

You vile binary gender bigot!

[Ted S.]

It, of course.

(Languages like Finnish don't have separate words for he and she, yet still have sexism. Imagine that.)

[Almanian]

Yeah, that response made me feel all warm inside

[Rhywun]

Me too a little, but after I stopped laffing I thought - WTF does deviantart need to know one's gender for? Why does every site force people to fill out stupid little questionnaires with useless trivia about themselves...?

[alittlesense]

I have an idea. We will make up an acronym for he, she or it.

s/h/it

[Michael]

The entry is tagged with "abuse of authority" which tells me just about everything I need to know about the individual that penned the subsequent screed.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The great marijuana tunnel.

I wonder how over budget and behind schedule that construction project was.

[Those Guys]

Ma?ana is good enough for me.

[Fluffy]

I'll bet that tunnel was built by extremely resourceful dudes who wasted nothing and overcame great obstacles to get the job done.

These people whose tunnel we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we legalize marijuana, we're gonna miss not having any tunnel around that's worth blowing up.

[Irresponsible Hater]

I like how the discovery of this tunnel is cast as a "victory". That's one less tunnel out there pumping drugs into our country! Yay!

When, most likely, given it's capacity, that tunnel probably needed to be in operation for a few days or weeks at most to have been a good investment.

It seems likely to me that a tunnel like that could have even been made for just one specific delivery, and been well worth it. Like, "we're going to need to move a shipment of half half a billion dollars worth of product in spring. Get going on a tunnel; your budget is $2 million." And if they can keep using it for a while after for smaller loads, or human smuggling, that's just gravy.

[Abdul]

Domestic Pot Growers: They tuk arr jerbs!

[Stereotypical Redneck]

durkka durka drrr

[Randy Marsh]

ERK TRRR BBRRP JJRRRBNZ!!

[Mike M.]

Obama's pathetic press conference rationalization for his acts as president: "I didn't really want to ram through all of these socialist bills and government takeovers, I HAD to do it!" What a joke.

And did you see how he's going to respond to his beatdown next? By fleeing the country to India at a staggering cost to the beaten down taxpayers of $200 million a day!

This guy lives in such a bubble and is so utterly detached from reality it's frightening.

[Rich]

fleeing the country to India at a staggering cost to the beaten down taxpayers

Did you see that he's involving 34 warships, since "the Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea"?

We'd jolly well better be invading Pakistan. /sarc

[Mike M.]

Maybe the schmuck will just stay over there and never come back. A guy can always dream.

[Barack Obama]

Maybe I will! They appreciate me over there. Not like you ungovernable Republitards.

[PapayaSF]

Indian authorities have decided to go one step further, by removing all natural threats to the president as well. All coconuts around the city's Gandhi museum, one of Mr Obama's stops in the city, are being taken down.

[Nipplemancer]

that still leaves a chance for a piano...

[Brett L]

What about the monkey soldiers? Will the monkey soldiers be deployed to avoid what happened to New Delhi's mayor?

[?]

Next in line to chair the Monetary Policy Subcommittee: Ron Paul.

Because they?you know, They?need hearing footage of a McCarthy character for the Why'd We Used to Have Food? educational films of the future.

B) There are actual news stories about this actual news event at actual news sites. But a link to your discredited asshole pal's information-free lie-blog is just fine.

[Fluffy]

Dude, if you get Weigeled and click on the link, it's nobody's fault but yours.

You got to be more aware, Meat.

[James Ard]

They linked to Weigel? Really?

[John]

Weigel didnt mean them when he called everyone rat fuckers. The reason staff really are abused girlfriends of the beltway media.

[Me Myself]

Did a libertarian stomp your puppy, John? You have one foot in trollworld. It'll be hilarious when you finally cross over.

[hmm]

WTF is wrong with troll world?

[Tulpa]

It's dark, and there are tapeworms. And no peanut butter to be found ANYWHERE.

[CoyoteBlue]

Now he'll talk to them at the cool kid's cock-tail party.

[-]

What happened to A) ?

[Arthur Fonzarelli]

I'm wondering that, too.

[-]

Nice.

[CoyoteBlue]

Funding growth for 'A's was cut by 3% for fiscal year 2011.

[Mike M.]

I'm just surprised that piece of shit didn't bring up the old newsletters once again.

[Frank]

Well, first off, Thank you California for voting "NO" on drugs. Second, to all the pro-marijuana people, I now extend a hand to you, this one time and ask you to join me in giving up on drugs including marijuana use and working to make California a family-friendly drug-free environment. We can win the war on drugs, we just have to prosecute it correctly. I urge, now that this proposition has failed, to turn a new leaf, one of clean and soberness. There is no better high than enjoying life without the use of a substance. Stay clean and let's get to work for the real values and ideals California and America deserve!! Thanks again!! 🙂

[James Ard]

We can win the war on drugs. Are you high?

[Jane]

Juanita, I know that's you!

[John]

Frank you really need to lay off the sauce.

[Mike]

Right on! Straight edge is the ONLY way to go, no alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, drugs or meat. Those who are no straight edge need to be beaten until they are in the hospital so they will learn their lesson and be straight. sXe

[Rich]

no alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, drugs or meat

Hey, don't forget carbon dioxide!

[prolefeed]

It's best for people like that to give up dihydrogen monoxide, too.

[Jack]

Juanita, did you have a gender change?

[hmm]

excellent troll

[Lord Jubjub]

I think Poe's Law applies here.

[Nick]

Yes, Frank. It starts at home. Please avoid all substances. ALL substances. Rest in peace.

[nekoxgirl]

Because the War on Drugs worked so well during the entire 20th century.

[Brett L]

Let the crazy begin. Can Dean beat Obama?

Slogan:YEAAAAARGH We Can!

[Ragin Cajun]

Some of the most influential members of Team Obama do not like or trust Dean and have long feared he would challenge Obama for the presidency if only given an opportunity.

I can see the next two years hold the promise of great amusement.

[Alex]

"One Democratic Primary Ballot, Please"

[NoVAHockey]

I did that in the VA primary. Thought I'll vote Obama over Clinton, b/c there's no way he'll win a general.

[John]

obama is so screwed. if he works with the Republicans like Clinton, the left will remember we are at war and Johnsonize him. If he doesn't, he will be lucky to get 45 percent in 2012, These rumors are nothing but a shot accross the bow telling Obama not to compromise,

[prolefeed]

If Obama acts like Clinton in 1994, he'll get reelected.

I'm not thinking Obama is that clever or pragmatic, though.

[Tulpa]

If Obama acts like a raving socialist and the economy performs the way it did in 1995-1996, he'll be reelected.

[nekoxgirl]

I think it really matters who Obama is running against. Even the Democrats hate Harry Reid but he won re-election thanks to Sharron Angle.

If a viable Independent runs though...even Sarah Palin might be able to beat him.

[Rich]

Can Dean beat Obama?

Probably not, at least unti there's a Dean sex doll as well.

I'd say NSFW, but will defer to SugarFree when he shows up.

[Ragin Cajun]

He's probably working on the Rand Paul transition team right now.

[rhea]

People are always talking about legalizing pot/marijuana but is it really that awesome that people have to smoke it? i don't understand it at all. It seems like a lot of work for nothing. But Yes, it seems marijuana buds are enjoyed by multitudes even more than the fruit (and sometimes leaves) of other plants such as avocados, potatoes, tomatoes, figs, pineapples etc.

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[hmm]

How are those drug laws in Asia?

[nekoxgirl]

Pretty strict. China use to execute people for possession of opium.

[Rhywun]

Yeah but cigarettes are dirt cheap and you can smoke anywhere the fuck you want - well, anywhere there aren't likely to be a bunch of gaijin milling about.

[Pip]

DIAF

[barfman]

*barf*

[P Brooks]

Because it's not like my actual name is FLUFFY, so who gives a fuck?

Wait, whut?

Representative Preston Brooks was Butler's South Carolina kinsman. If he had believed Sumner to be a gentleman, he might have challenged him to a duel. Instead, he chose a light cane of the type used to discipline unruly dogs. Shortly after the Senate had adjourned for the day, Brooks entered the old chamber, where he found Sumner busily attaching his postal frank to copies of his "Crime Against Kansas" speech.

[Tulpa]

You have to admit that Sumner was an asshole though. He spewed vile slanderous remarks about his opponents and their families in pretty much every speech on the floor and then hid behind the constitutional guarantee that legislators are not legally liable for remarks made in their chambers.

I mean, his opponents were disgusting characters themselves, as supporters of slavery, but there is a line one does not cross even in the service of one's ideology. Something that liberals have yet to learn, but that's for another post.

[nch]

Nice phrasing at Politico:

The committee has been low key under Rep. Melvin Watts (D-N.C.). His web site says he plans to hold hearings on "equal access by the visually impaired to U.S. coins and currency."

It's safe to say that a Paul chairmanship might be a little more intense.

[db]

I'm pretty sure denominations of sound money are readily distinguishable to the visually impaired and aurally impaired.

[PapayaSF]

There are people who want to make paper currency different sizes and/or put braille on them.

[Tulpa]

It was nice having vending machines that accepted bills while it lasted. Another victory for handicapped people making their own lives no easier and the lives of nonhandicapped more difficult.

[PapayaSF]

Ableist!

[Ted S.]

Pennies and nickles are unmilled; dimes and quarters are milled. It's easy to tell coins apart.

Bills are different, of course.

[Spoonman.]

RON PAUL! being chairman of the monetary committee means some AWESOME things will be hitting YouTube come January. Sweet.

[Brett L]

This story over at Charlie Stross's blog at the very least proves that US politicians don't have a strangle-hold on crazy.

Apparently one of their Peers gave a 15+ minute rant on the floor of the House of Lords about a shadowy foundation attempting to 'give' the UK government 22B Euros for recovery. Bonus Vatican conspiracy theory.

[P Brooks]

If you do not wish to designate your gender and prefer to deactivate your account due to being forced to make this choice then you may do so if you choose.

Fascist!

[Chad]

I agree.

I have a one inch penis and a vagina. What box would I check?

[Ska]

That's the difference Chad - you can't decide which box to check. This other entity is enraged that s/h/it has to.

[Ted S.]

Pick one box one day, and change it another day.

[kinnath]

If I were Obama, I'd be planning an extensive list of international vacations that the taxpayers are footing the bill for. Two years is a lot of time to run up the tab.

[Richard Branson]

international vacations that the taxpayers are footing the bill for

You think too small, Sir.

[kinnath]

Can't mask a sub-orbital jaunt as a diplomatic "business" trip.

[Robert Gibbs]

It's a "fact-finding" mission.

[Vermont Gun Owner]

He's going to inspect the space station!

...From several hundred km down.

[hmm as Obama]

Party at my place!!!

I'll send Michelle for fresh veggies and shitty beer.

[Joe Biden]

Don't forget the O'Doul's this time, Barry!

[Law Enforcement official]

The marijuana tunnel is like the moon landing, merely a myth. The cartels don't make any money off marijuana. Unless of course if you legalized it then they would get into the business and their violence would spread.

[LEO Junior]

The marijuana tunnel is like the moon landing, merely a myth.

Correct. Marijuana is a gateway drug, duh.

[hmm as Obama]

gateway to happiness!

[Mike Laursen]

Prop 19 defeated and drug tunnel discovered a day later. Somebody's gotta come up with a good conspiracy theory on that one.

[waffles]

I dunno, it's not like the pot couldn't be sold regardless. Maybe it was like "hey, we gotta move this shit quick cause the price is coming down if 19 passes". Again, maybe, maybe not.

[Old Mexican]

San Francisco bans the happy meal.

Kids parents of whiny kids block main streets downtown in protest.

[Wesley]

I call bullshit. There are no kids in San Francisco.

[Old Mexican]

Yes, there are - San Franciscans have them hidden in cellars.

[prolefeed]

The 20% or so of SF who vote Republican generally have kids. I actually know one such couple.

[P Brooks]

Dufty, the swing vote Mar needed to assure a veto-proof majority, said the powerful lure of toys that come with kids meals - and the marketing campaigns that accompany them - puts parents who may want to steer their children toward healthier food choices at fast-food restaurants at a distinct disadvantage.

Evil KKKorporate Mind Control strikes again.

[Fluffy]

You're ALREADY IN THE FUCKING MCDONALD'S, NUMBNUTS.

[PapayaSF]

McDonalds should offer to compromise and offer a vegan tofu and bean sprouts salad Happy Meal.

[Abdul]

The toy could be a chakra-reader or birkenstocks for your hairy-legged Barbie.

[PapayaSF]

A cute little toy dreamcatcher! Made in China, of course.

[Chupacabra]

'Cuz it's HARD to say no to your kids!

They might cry or something, and I won't be their best friend any more.

[Contemplationist]

Heteronormativity as a tool of oppression for the patriarchy must be eliminated forever for the sake of Gender Justice (TM). The evil inherent in your fascistic gender-binarism is bare for all to see!

/man, those shrooms were good

[Brett L]

Am I the only one who likes seeing Reason fund their drug legalization articles with anti-drug adverts?

[Aresen]

I don't think it is a choice on Reason's part, but I'm quite sure they get as much a giggle out of it as I do.

Especially after a few hits.

[?]

I have AdBlock installed. All I see is white.
Groovy, mind-bending white, maaaan.

[mad libertarian guy]

Anyone who doesn't use adblock is an idiot.

Internet ads are the lowest form of advertising ever.

"Shoot the jumping squirrel and win a free iPhone!"

[John Thacker]

Anyone who needs Adblock in order to ignore the ads is an idiot.

[Warty]

I looked at them with the Male Gaze, which I gather that (as a male) is my default Gaze.

Probably NSFW, but if it is, you should quit your job anyway.

[Slut Bunwalla]

Ebert can be a an absolute leftist jackass at times, but man can he write. And he is occasionally quite thought-provoking at times.

[Vermont Gun Owner]

She looks great from the chest up, but is way too skinny. It's disturbing.

[Old Mexican]

The Fed spends $600 billion.

The Fed:
"Lookie here, I suddenly have $600 billion to spend! Oh, oh, oh, it's magic!"

[Aresen]

Will that be one loaf or two buns?

[0x90]

You know-oh-oh...

[P Brooks]

Meanwhile, on CNBC, the Five Minute Fear du jour is Airmail. They and their guests have apparently been seized by the horrific foreboding that air freight on passenger flights will lead to the extermination of the human race. And that the Fourth Amendment is at the root of it all.

But, on the other hand, Helicopter Ben will save us from whatever the fuck it is he's saving us from.

Honestly, I don't know why I bother to turn it on at all, anymore.

[P Brooks]

Why doesn't the Fed simply "buy up" all our debt and then, as the owner, *destroy it*?

"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit outta muh hat."

[R C Dean]

Why doesn't the Fed simply "buy up" all our debt and then, as the owner, *destroy it*?

Ah, yes, monetize all the debt in one fell swoop.

Two immediate results:

(1) Hyperinflation.

(2) No one ever loans money to the federal government again.

I leave the knock-on effects to your imagination.

[smartass sob]

(2) No one ever loans money to the federal government again.

I wonder if that is really all that negative an outcome.

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