Evidently, there are lots of what are old friend (and one of my personal stalkers) Timmah might call “gun fetishists” starting to stockpile the hardware for personal, family, home, and property protection. I guess maybe they think the Democrats who keep insisting nobody is going to take their guns are the same Democrats who told them they’d be able to have free healthcare, keep their doctors, get cheap coverage even

…has shown up 40-years later. And is of course caused by anthropogenic global warming — which we were only recently told had beset us — either of which can only be forestalled by massive global wealth redistribution and the end of industry, without which, to borrow from a desperately rationalizing Bill Murray in Stripes, “all the the plants will die.” Here’s the truth, though: the weather is controlled by the

— which even such supposedly fiscal-minded Republicans, most notably Paul Ryan, have conceded is concerning, I have but this to say: like minimum wage increase arguments, “income inequality” arguments are populist horse shit and, if we had a party that represented the ideals of this country, and wasn’t simply an opposition party solely for the purposes of being an opposition party and awaiting turns in public sentiment (and the paucity

So let’s not try to reinvent the wheel here in our response to the latest iteration of leftist populism. Instead, let’s discuss the unassailable logic redounding against mandatory minimum wage hikes — that forcing companies to pay more for what are supposed to be entry level jobs means they are less likely to hire entry level employees to take those jobs; and that the more money a company is forced