Me? Like a freakin’ Clydesdale, baby… related.

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Question: What do you call a person who believes that government, and not the market, should control an economy? Or one who believes that it is the role of the government to step in and buy up effective control of troubled private corporations — corporations troubled in many ways because of prior government interventions — with (future) taxpayer money? And — and this is the really important part — is

Why all the formality? I say we just put all the corporate fat cats into a Colloseum, have them fight armed members of the treasury department, and then let our new Emperor give a thumbs up or thumbs down to decide the fate of the survivors. At least then we could like, place bets and shit.

So suggests Chris Seiple, writing in the CSM: In the course of my travels — from the Middle East to Central Asia to Southeast Asia — it has been my great privilege to meet and become friends with many devout Muslims. These friendships are defined by frank respect as we listen to each other; understand and agree on the what, why, and how of our disagreements, political and theological; and,

…one bit of “smart diplomacy” at a time… **** (more here and here.) *** update: Biden jumps in to help out! (thanks to Abe)