I'm flummoxed. What could "morally acceptable"even mean? Is the ACA politically acceptable? Is arena football sportingly acceptable? It could mean almost anything. And so means nothing.

This is very simple economics so listen up:  If you tax something, you get less of it.  So...

PAY TORNADO IN MY FRONT YARD TAX  $15

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world."

                                     - Fred Rogers

 If you don’t like what happened at the IRS, then, you’re arguing that profiling is bad policy.

I get a big kick out of absurdly constructed if-then statements that are delivered as an argument walk-off.   It is really a great tactic.  Almost anything can be forced into the formula and any defense against the statement only legitimizes it.

If you don't like the weather today, then, you must be for international emission reduction targets.

If you don't like getting a flu shot, then, you must be anti-science.

If you don't like chocolate cake, then, you must be arguing for the mass slaughter of camels.

One of the guys in that photo forgot to check the weather report before getting dressed in the morning. Can you guess which one?

I've heard it said that creativity is taking two existing ideas and bringing them together to form a new idea.

The Beatles brought together several existing musical styles and formed a new sound.  That sound has been the sound in popular music ever since.

I disagree. 

Before the Beatles nobody sounded like the Beatles.  Since the Beatles everybody sounds like the Beatles.

I think that sound has become so familiar to us that we forget the creation of it was genius.

Definitely Piano Man

A good companion question might be:

What songs or artists are undeservingly underplayed?

I love voicemail because it allows me to ignore everybody I know without appearing rude.

You know you're in a socialist country when you hear the campaign slogan "Litter in every pot!"

Everyone reading the value menu at McDonald's.

"Let's see... it's about 1:30 so that leaves me with what...like 3 1/2 years.."

The Iced Americano looks good.

Now serving Number 44.

They aren't going back. There's nothing to go back to. Obama always won these people over with promises. But this is it for him now. No more time for promises. It's go time. But he's got nothing. No heart, no ideas, nothing. If they really believe what they say they believe in they have to dump his dead weight now.