7 Replies to “Math is HARD! [Darleen Click]”

1. Squid says:

   September 7, 2012 at 8:55 am

   Great. Now I’m left wondering what a government-committee-created sex toy would look like. I’m certain it would have solar panels and be available in every color except white, but from there it’s anybody’s guess.

2. Squid says:

   September 7, 2012 at 9:05 am

   Speaking of math, I was just haunting the ThingThrowers, and came across the following:

   At the arena in Charlotte this week — again, not that we’re talking about why I was in Charlotte — they had free cell phone charger stations arrayed around the concourse on each level…

   Except that it was free. And because it was free, folks would hog scarce ports for thirty minutes, an hour, or more…and iPhone and Droid users were often left waiting in intolerable queues. If there’s a better illustration of the tragedy of the commons, I’m not sure what it would be.

   They maintain a strict “no politics” rule over there (hence the aside in the first sentence), so I’m not at liberty to ask Adam what he thinks is going to happen when health care is treated the same as iPhone chargers.

   Seriously — you can smack these “wise men” in the face with the clear consequences of their policies, and they still can’t imagine why we don’t support them, nor why every one of their schemes ends with people starving to death. And yet they look down upon us as simpletons!

   Is it any wonder that I drink?

3. cranky-d says:

   September 7, 2012 at 10:32 am

   I blush to admit (or don’t, really) that I would drink even if we had a country running fully on the classical liberal track.

   I would have less to bitch about when drinking, though.

4. Squid says:

   September 7, 2012 at 10:41 am

   I like to say that it’s the difference between drinking because I want to, versus drinking because I have to if I want to keep from breaking things.

5. B Moe says:

   September 7, 2012 at 10:56 am

   Now I’m left wondering what a government-committee-created sex toy would look like.

   Thanks so much for planting that question in my head.

6. McGehee says:

   September 7, 2012 at 11:09 am

   a government-committee-created sex toy

   Squid, you left out:

   * Everybody would be required to have one, and
   * It can’t actually be used for sex.

7. Squid says:

   September 7, 2012 at 2:03 pm

   So you mean like a Form 1040, McG?

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