U.S. Debt Worries Everybody, Thomas Szasz Dead at 92, Krugman Plays the Zombie Card: P.M. Links
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Dear America: If you don't get a handle on this debt thing, we are so going to ding your credit rating. Love, Moody's.
- The German government isn't happy about U.S. debt, either.
- Thomas Szasz, who challenged the concept of mental illness without a physical cause, and warned that such diagnoses could be abused for coercive purposes, is dead at 92.
- Paul Krugman accused Rand Paul of being brainwashed by zombies for asserting, quite correctly, that federal government employment is up under Obama. One of these days, we'll discover that Krugman is a performance artist …
- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will blow up Iran if it wants to and there's nothing the U.S. can do about it. Now just you wait a minute, young man …
- Money from Medicare fraud was being laundered through Cuba's state bank.
- Is that a monkey in your underwear, or are you just happy— Oh. So it is a monkey.
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One of these days, we'll discover that Krugman is a performance artist ...
I'm beginning to suspect Nobel was in on it.
It would be awesome if Krugabe was just Andy Kauffman in disguise, this whole time!
Where was Krugman before Andy "died"?
So Andy's Krugman, not Obama? Hmmmm, it is possible.
Andy is Biden.
Andy could be the entire administration for all we know. Didn't he used to have other actors rotate playing his characters to create ambiguity as to whether they were real people?
So...is Schumer actually Bob Zmuda?
No way--that's too easy. Biden is a thin Sam Kinison.
I miss Sam.
Who doesn't? I blame the entire U.S. decline on his death.
Is there where I can brag to you yutes and say I actually got to see Sam perform live?
[Bows to the superior man.]
Did I ever mention that I thought for a while that Andy Kaufman was Elvis Presley? I'm serious; I thought he was a comic persona that Mr. Presley had made up.
http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2012.....epage=true
A slut walk in San Fransisco consisting entirely of women no one would ever fuck.
I'd do the blondes in the third picture, particularly the one on the left. Geographical left.
I will give you them. But the rest of them not so much. Did you see the bearded lady?
Not enough tequila on this planet.
If there is a drug strong enough to make that seem fun, I don't want to take it.
Not sluts, slut wannabes. Rejects.
Hey, give 'em a break. They were protesting something that 99.999999999% of Americans already agree with. That's why they were able to rally almost 80 people, from a region with about 7 million population.
I don't get the "slut walk" thing. Don't sluts want men to treat them like sexual objects? Isn't that what "slut" means?
Not when it is used for self-empowerment, of course.
"Don't pay any attention to me, even if I am acting like an Attention Whore!"
You're probably curious: Did the SlutWalkers show a lot of Obama Love? Oddly, no: Although there was quite a lot of Republican-bashing, as expected, only one marcher, shown here, overtly campaigned for Obama. I'm quite certain that there were a grand total of zero Romney votes in the crowd, but it was probably considered just too square and predictable for most of the protesters to openly declare their support for a sitting president. One must maintain a supremely radical pose in public, and then in the voting booth get pragmatic and pull that lever for "D."
Every damaged peace of goods on the planet right now is blaming their problems on Republicans. I really wished you guys were half as evil as your reputation.
piece of goods
I better get that checked out.
Jesse Ventura Doubts the Bin Laden Fairytale on CNN
If Jesse Ventura ever uncovers a conspiracy theory that is actually true the best thing he can do to help convince people is keep his mouth shut.
No, God no. His mix of sincerity and gullibility is so damn entertaining to watch. I never want to see him shut up.
So are reason links to the Reason 24/7 instead of the actual article a new permanent policy? That low end SEO crap is really annoying.
Man, some people are really slow to catch on...
I stopped clicking on them and now just do a google search for the content out of spite.
I don't click on the links often and part of me hoped it would go away after a week. I didn't realize reason got acquired by Demand Media.
Jesus, tell me about it. I watched a video on YouTube of a Peruvian guy doing an excellent acoustic guitar solo based on the Game of Thrones theme and was impressed enough to watch it a few more times, and damn if I haven't been followed around with adverts for guitars and strings and music lessons based on that one incident.
AdBlock, goddammit. Ad fucking Block. I see perhaps one internet ad a month. Maybe.
Don't get me started.
At least we aren't forced to share our clicks on facebook
Concur.
PM Stephen Harper named 'World Statesman of the Year' by NY foundation
Disagreements with this decision are to be found in the comments to the article.
Wow. You aren't kidding!
Is that a monkey in your underwear, or are you just happy-
Maybe it was doctor prescribed for his itch.
You know from experience, then.
I use home remedies, none of that "AMA approved" crap which, as we all know, is really just lucrative collusion between the medical establishment and monkey wranglers.
As a former pharmaceutical monkey salesman, I resent the implication you're making.
The overhead on monkey wrangling is outrageous.
Democracy is alive and well in Egypt as angry protestors scale the US embassy walls and burn the embassy's American flag. Protestors were screaming slogans about Allah and were demanding an apology for a film critical of Muslims made by a US based Coptic group.
How long before those animals take hostages?
I don't neccessarily see that happening since the military regime there has every incentive not to let another Tehran happen since they want our money.
Most likely they'll just burn down some churches and massacre a few hundred Christians and Jews.
Is it 1980 again? What the fuck?
No, but only because we're missing the gas lines, the rationing, and the stagflation. Give it another month...
I say this in all seriousness:
If Egyptian students take US hostages at an embassy a few weeks before the US election, I will firmly believe it's a CIA plot to get Romney elected.
Why the CIA would plot against Obama when he continually does this bidding, I don't know. But it will just be so obvious.
Why the CIA would plot against Obama when he continually does this bidding
Yeah, they are not going to get anyone more compliant than Obama. The personal and family links are enough to convince me of a long connection. One, the program that his father took advantage of to study in the US was sponsored by the goodwill side of our intelligence community. they would pay for talented, politically connected students to study here in hopes of building future alliances. Probably not even a bad idea.
Two, his step father was a high ranking officer in the coup most infamously known for 'The Year of Living Dangerously.' A CIA operation in all its blood soaked glory.
His mother worked for a bank known for laundering for the CIA in Asia, as well as working for the Ford Foundation. Their links are notorious.
Obama's only private experience was with an outfit that Robert Wenzel, I believe it was, found a contemporaneous clip from the New York Times at the time identifying it as doing contract work for the CIA in information gathering.
He is called a radical though his craptastic socialism is just Galbraithian public institution dominance over all independent operators. He is like a throw back in many ways to the naive technocratic vision of the world of the mid twentieth century in short that of his parents and his grandfather.
Memory a little off on the last tidbit. The NYT article was actually much less innocuous than I recalled them being merely a third party gatherer of info. Probably because I have read Dreams of My Father since then I blended Obama's description of them in the mix:
http://www.economicpolicyjourn.....d-cia.html
In his autobiography, Dreams From My Fathers, Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his employer as "a consulting house to multinational corporations" in New York City, and his functions as a "research assistant" and "financial writer".
Oddly, Obama doesn't mention the name of his employer. However, a New York Times story of October 30, 2007 identifies the company as Business International Corporation. Equally odd is that the Times did not remind its readers that the newspaper itself had disclosed in 1977 that Business International had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960.10
If Egyptian students take US hostages at an embassy a few weeks before the US election, I will firmly believe it's a CIA plot to get Romney elected.
If that's the case, the CIA is slipping. It's kind of late in the game to be pulling a Tehran repeat.
Apparently The filmmakers are s to blame
Why weren't the protesters arrested, kicked the fuck out, or shot by the marines guarding the embassy?
Thomas Szasz died?
i haz a sadz that Szasz is deadz.
/lolcat speak
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will blow up Iran if it wants to and there's nothing the U.S. can do about it.
By all means, leave us out of it.
"Iran, dude. You drop a gnarly nuke like that and girls will get sterile just looking at you."
"Barack, this is a bit awkward. But I've heard a few things, and I was wondering if it would be OK if I took Iran out."
"She only speaks Arabic, Benjamin. She doesn't speak imbecile."
Let them be responsible for the stability of the whole region. While we're at it, let's rearm Japan and give them Asia to patrol.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s.....1-10-31-08
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho authorities say a pilot flying over a Republican gathering had been dropping rolls of toilet paper or streamers from his airplane before it crashed.
The Federal Aviation Administration says early indications are the experimental aircraft stalled or reached a speed and angle at which it lost its lift. The pilot, 60-year-old Randy Humble, of Moscow, Idaho, died at the scene Saturday.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Wait, stall recovery is something you learn very early on in pilot training. This guy must have been a real crack pilot.
'crack pilot', toilet paper. I c what u did there.
Damn, thats about 15 minutes from where I live. I go to moscow to buy cigarettes as it is the nearest town in Idaho. (WA has some fucked up cig taxes.)
Pointing out the truth is racist!
First, fast zombies, now brainwashing zombies? When will the sacrilege end!?!??!
Who knew that bath salts could make you so persuasive on economic theory.
Romero should sue.
http://www.politico.com/news/s.....81007.html
Major defense contractors have confirmed they'll send tens of thousands of employee layoff warnings shortly before Election Day, according to correspondence released Monday by Arizona Sen. John McCain.
I thought they were asked not to do that by the administration?
Apparently the answer was "fuck you". If this happens, I wonder what the effect on Virginia will be.
Problem is that the administration (via the DCAA) is currently in the process of suing Lockheed Martin for not sending out WARN notices as soon as they were aware thier MIGHT be layoffs in the cancelation of the Marine One upgrade contract.
My company has been talking about sequestration for months and has already had two small layoffs.
To that end, McCain's office released letters from the CEOs of thirteen major defense vendors, of which three said they already know they'll send the warnings: Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest defense contractor; EADS North America and BAE Systems.
In related news, Lockheed Martin, EADS North America, and BAE Systems will not be any new contracts in the near future.
*will not be recieveing
Me typey gud.
I actually was shocked that they were willing the blow off the implied threat.
I'm not. Between those three you've got all the capability to build any major weapon system. Who else are you going to buy from if not them? The Russians? The Chinese? Dassault?
Please. Those three are locked into a symbiotic relationship with DOD. Nobody gets free without taking a hit.
The administration must be having a cow about that one.
I'm not sure how to feel--pissed off that they're effectively holding a gun to the taxpayers' head, or admiration of the balls they have to basically dare the President and Congress to cut that spending.
"You'll see, I'll do it! Oh, I will so do it! See me do it! See? I'm doing it! I'm doing it! See?"
"I will blow up Iran if you do not give me... one million dollars!" [Pinky in mouth]
I spent a year at the University of Idaho (which is in Moscow); the economics department was really good. Lots of public choice and economics of (de)regulation guys.
I suspect Randy Humble never came into contact with any of them.
A Los Angeles jury awarded casino mogul Steve Wynn $20 million Monday in his slander suit against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis ? a sum 10 times the gambling debt that sparked the dispute.
The L.A. County Superior Court jury found that Francis knowingly made false statements when he told reporters and others that Wynn threatened to kill him and bury his body in the desert over a $2-million bill he ran up during a multi-day gambling spree in 2007.
http://www.latimes.com/news/lo.....4337.story
What a dumb ass.
That story just reminds me of this.
"Maybe the mafia should get involved in the casino business."
"What are you, an idiot?"
"Pretty much, yeah."
"Then you won't notice when I claim your idea as my own."
Lighten up, Francis.
Joe Francis is living, hard proof of the existence of karma.
Alleged world's oldest man dies at age 122. Magomed Labazanov was born in 1890 in the Russian Empire and attributed his longevity to abstaining from alcohol and tobacco.
That's no life worth living.
No yogurt? I saw commercials that said those guys lived a long time because of yogurt.
I'd guess he was 80, judging by his appearance in the video (well, except for his posture while walking).
Dude has his (cancerous) dick cut off by a doc without his consent sues.
Magomed Labazanov was born in 1890 in the Russian Empire and attributed his longevity to abstaining from alcohol and tobacco.
And successfully staying off Stalin's radar.
Yeah, that's what's most impressive to me, surviving the revolution and civil war, Lenin, Stalin, WWII, and all that other Soviet shit.
Paul Krugman accused Rand Paul of being brainwashed by zombies...
Just imagine the economic stimulus that would result from a zombie apocalypse. /Krugnuts
Gary Johnson did an AMA on Reddit today.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/c.....candidate/
Q: Governor Johnson, if you lose this election, will you please, PLEASE continue to try to hold political positions? Perhaps congress or the senate? Thank you for doing this!
A: I plan to stay involved, but not running for Congress, or the Senate. I think both jobs are judged by how much bacon you bring home, and I refuse to be a part of that.
Oh come on Gary, you'd totally win a Senate seat in New Mexico and then you could actually accomplish shit and advance the libertarian movement.
No kidding. He should have ran for Senate.
Gary and Rand would make a nice couple.
NTTAAWWT
I might actually watch that porn. With the proviso Gary washes his hair.
That's a strange fixation...why do you think Gary would make a good hairdresser? And I would think that trying to style Rand's mop would be futile.
Just do one term in the Senate, then.
GovGaryJohnson: "Long term, we need to populate another planet, because the Earth is going to encompass the sun."
Yep, that's the worst thing he said in an entire unscripted, off the cuff mass interview. And Obama and Romney both say stupider things every single day.
Saywhatnow?
McKayla update. She took a fall and may be injured. Wait, why am I telling a group of people who will go completely Misery on her?
McKayla is a cutie.
She still 16?
Isn't 16 the age of consent in Canuckistan?
What is Canada's age of consent?
The age of consent for sexual activity is 16 years. It was raised from 14 years on May 1, 2008 by the Tackling Violent Crime Act.
However, the age of consent is 18 years where the sexual activity "exploits" the young person -- when it involves prostitution, pornography or occurs in a relationship of authority, trust or dependency (e.g., with a teacher, coach or babysitter). Sexual activity can also be considered exploitative based on the nature and circumstances of the relationship, e.g., the young person's age, the age difference between the young person and their partner, how the relationship developed (quickly, secretly, or over the Internet) and how the partner may have controlled or influenced the young person.
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/dept-min/clp/faq.html
Love newspeak. Cause we all know that consensual sex is the most violent of crimes. Who the hell came up with that, Andrea Dworkin?
The "tough on crime" Conservative Party of Canada
So basically, its just like the States. If her parents aren't okay with it, you go to prison.
Yup. But its totally legal for some pizza faced sixteen year old dude who has no clue what he is doing getting he knocked up under any of those listed circumstances, and they both go welfare to raise the kid. The old ways were the best ways. The best prospects for your sixteen year old daughter was a well off widower whose first wife died in childbirth.
getting her knocked up
Shitty keyboard! Got to double press my 'r's. Did the same damn thing to me last night.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
Growing Mexican middle class snap up American products. How long before Americans are sneaking over the border to mow lawns?
My Mexican cousins are rich. That's not out of the ballpark of my personal choices if the Obama steaming shitter craps out for another four years.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/.....ly-doesnt/
Nine reasons why the economy is in the toilet and headed for worse.
Reading that makes my tummy ache.
Live Crab Vending Machine
Cooking with power tools
Alton Brown did that shit 10 years ago.
He needs a new show. Called Good Eats.
Now he's justing tweeting post-it notes.
About a third of my recipes and almost all of my holiday ones come from Alton Brown. My whole family does his brined turkey once I rolled the dice on it lo those many Christmases ago.
First show I ever saw was the first turkey-brining episode. Was immediately hooked.
For me it was when he made coq au vin. I made it right after and it was fantastic.
Alton Brown is the most relatable guy on television ever.
'Home Improvement' did it like 20 years ago.
IRS pays $104 million to UBS banker for assisting US government in investigating American tax dodgers.
I'd like to see banks show some principle* and refuse to take this guy's money. Make him keep it in small bills in a safe at home.
*yes, I know.
I just don't understand how we can call ourselves a free country when the government will throw you in jail for not reporting a foreign bank account to the Stasi. If they incentivze ratting out people for violating stupid and immoral laws, how soon will it be before we turn into East Germany where your neighbors and employer spy on you?
Does the DARE program encouraging kids to rat out their parents count?
http://gawker.com/5942049/man-.....ll+nighter
Man Posts Delightfully Passive-Aggressive Performance Review of Neighbors' Cacophonous Karaoke All-Nighter
That was good.
Well, this is a nice spot of confirmation.
Was "Dunphy" already taken on the PoliceOne forums?
Cougar on the prowl in the Hamptons.
I know, dog bites man, right?
Maybe it will eat Ina Garten during one of her little garden lunches.
Ina Garten, I'll feed you honey. Don't you know that I love you?
That's just terrible, ProL. I hate you. Everyone should hate you now.
why, we were all thinking it.
I--I tried not to type it. But I had to. It was a metal imperative.
You're all just a bunch of degenerates!
Exactly.
Yes, and...?
Metal Imperative? Great band name.
Agreed. Go make a few million in Finland and send me a small royalty check now and then.
You leave Ina alone. That woman can cook. I could probably get drunk enough to hit that if doing so came with her meals and living in her house in the Hampton.
I'm not going to comment on that second sentence, but her show is okay. I've watched it a few times.
The only show I watch at all on Food Network is the occasional Diner, Drive-Ins, and Dives. And syndicated Good Eats episodes, dammit.
Is Eat Street only on in Canada?
That's on the Cooking Channel, right? I haven't seen it yet.
I think Guy Fieri jumped the shark on that show not too long ago.
Good Eats is excellent.
plus Frosted Tips
Frosted Tips only works for Kevin Millar.
Wait, what? Fieri jumped the shark the moment he was born. He is possibly one of the most annoying fucks on all of TV.
What's amazing is that I agree 100%. But I like the show format. It's no Good Eats or anything like that, but I still like some of the places the weird hair visits.
In related news, I heard Iron Chef is coming back. The real one, I mean.
I utterly burned out on cooking shows over a year or so. I'm totally done with them.
I used to watch more, but they aren't as good these days, and the Food Network is mostly crappy reality programming. I'd like to take whoever invented the latest wave of reality TV and strand him on an island with, well, Guy Fieri.
Admit it. You still wear your sunglasses on your neck hump, don't you?
You know, I've long wondered whether Episiarch is Guy Fieri. I've been watching the show to see if he'd reveal his position on pizza.
I'm convinced that Epi is Guy and coming here to bad mouth him is the only way he knows to deal with his Guido shame.
It's seems more than plausible. Probable?
And Fieri is apparently a super dick according to a local restaurant featured on his show. They explained it as if he thought he was a real celebrity rather than an obnoxious fuck who won a contest show.
Oh, I believe it.
So you're going to confirm that you'll fuck anything, John. That's good, because we all knew it anyway.
No I am going to confirm that I will fuck anything, if fucking said anything comes with permanent access to great food and a big house in the Hamptons and probably some kind of high end sports car like a Merc AMG or maybe an Aston Martin.
So we agree.
(You missed a word in there, an important one. RC's Law FTW!)
[Looks up Ina Garten]
Looks at John.
Walks away, slowly shaking his head.
You think he was confusing her with Nigella Lawson?
I don't think John would need to get drunk for Nigella Lawson. Although in fairness to John's tastes, I'm not sure I would either.
You're not sure? Who are you holding out for (who can actually cook?) Giada?
Nigella used to be gorgeous. Especially considering her age.
She was a passable Snow White type (Jewish version) when she was young.
But now that woman is LARGE.
You wouldn't actually have to fuck her to marry her, though, John. Her actual husband worked at Yale his whole life while she lived in the Hamptons. They had "sexless marriage" written all over them. All you'd have to do is show up and eat once in a while (food, that is) and you'd be good.
So, he was boinking coeds while she was boinking the local pool guy?
The term is zoftzig.
???
The hell?
How could you...
I don't even.
Not the kind of cougar I'm used to seeing on the interwebz.
I was informed that cougars are always on the prowl in the Hamptons. Is this not the case?
Yes.
Yes.
It is.
My pet name for Ina Garten is "pretentious fat chick". My family knows exactly who I'm talking about. Gawd she is annoying.
Texas cop admits to fishing for drugs for revenue:
Wow, he's so articulate, too. I wasn't aware that speeding was Probable Cause for anything other than a ticket.
Hehe. Feminists confused by the government not paying for something.
"But I don't want to pay for your contraceptives. Go and buy them yourself."
"You're explicitly anti-woman!"
"I won't give you my wallet! Go and get a job, you lazy bum!"
"You're explicitly anti-robber!"
Someone else quoted this a few days ago, but it's doubly appropriate here:
I love that Bastiat quote, but why is everyone suddenly acting like it's new? Someone posts it here every couple of months since I started posting here.
I somehow missed it. I'm reading The Law as a result.
their party platform which criminalizes choice
You keep using that word.
I'm not seeing a whole lot of choice in either platform, sweetie. Lots of coercion, but not much actual choice.
The choice to submit or die. That's the choice they're talking about.
The Republican platform clearly calls for cake or death, which is much preferable to the Democrat's Fluke or death.
Yeah, I could see voting for cake. Especially chocolate cake.
It's literally anti-woman.
Personally, I am anti-women but very, very pro-slut.
Does feministing not even allow you to read comments without being logged in?
At Consol Energy Center waiting for RUSH to hit the stage.
Hey, the shirtless libertarian candidate showed up in the comments to defend himself against the narc. He needn't have bothered, but it is informative.
How would we know, since you Sugar-Freed the link?
Pretty amusing self-takedown here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/c.....cys-flaws/
You need to read the comments to get to the laugh.
Dude's definitely ignorant, but in a way that 99% of the population is. Well, maybe 98% now that Ron Paul got a little popular.
I think they have a good reason to worry!
http://www.Anon-Tech.tk
Tom was one of those guys you appreciated and who hung on for a long time and whose death you knew was overdue, and so started grieving for the loss of even before it happened. Yet I might've missed it had I not come here tonight. I'd been staying away from H y R for a couple weeks because it tended to burn out my sound processor by overheating the whole board, and I didn't see this at Volokh. Maybe I'd've been happier had I stayed away longer; I might've thought Tom was still alive months from now.