My sentiments exactly.  Someone inform Dave.

Remind me - bargaining is which stage of grief?

Good for Reed Hastings.  That should take the sting out of the recent Netflix beatdown.

Bowles made his career in investment banking, but I'm surprised to see him hooked up here.  Zuckerberg and Don Graham have had a bromance going for several years, which may hint at a connection (not to mention that the Zuckerberg-Graham relationship seems awfully similar to Warren Buffett's mentorship of a young Don Graham, and Buffett's close to Bill Gates, who is a Harvard dropout like Zuckerberg).  That's total speculation, though.  

Paging Trace Urdan....

 Who knew the Droid Incredible was a double entendre?

FYI - watch the Member Feed for soon-to-be-released news of the next meetup in the Atlanta-Athens, Georgia area.  Alas, I will be attending a fundraiser for a very worthy local cause so everyone will have to make do with a bunch of Georgians' watered-down notions of liberty.

If only it were a dogwhistle.  Then it would have merely been imperceptible to the human ear, rather than unbearable. 

I'm a Wake Forest guy and more than a little biased, but watching Chris Paul and Blake Griffin is going to be truckloads of fun.

If Israel goes it alone, perhaps they can dust off the playbook from the Doolittle Raid....

Or speculatory bubbles, I take it....

You know full well that Social Security is nothing more than a system of transfer payments.  Your money went to pay for someone else's retirement and, as with all transfer payments, you would only get something in "return" if there were others in sufficient number willing to pay for you when the time came.

Careful.  This upcomer has already advised his parents that his vote would be to cut them and their generation off at the knees and stop Social Security cold turkey if he were king.

I'm sorry, but I think this passage is appalling.  My niece is a special needs child (not Downs, but with many similar health concerns), so I'll grant you that I'm not the most objective person here.  Nevertheless, your suggestion that another child without these special needs is more deserving of life-saving measures is simply wrong.  Her life, well-being, happiness and maximum health are just as precious and deserving as those of my own thankfully healthy children.

Maybe I've misunderstood your point and you weren't meaning to imply that care should be granted or withheld based on someone's perception of the utility of a particular life.  If I have, please let me know.

 55 - not bad for an egghead lawyer.  My bubble would be a bit thinner if I watched TV (I think Ghost Hunters should have been on the list) or if the kiddos left us time to go to the movies (and if watching The Hangover on a constant loop gave you the Charles Murray street cred that it should). 

I also think I should get bonus points since I not only know where Branson is, I attended a Glen Campbell concert there, my parents honeymooned there, my father worked a summer at Silver Dollar City while living in a tent, and my great-great grandfather was an honest-to-God Bald Knobber (add ten points to your score if you can tell me what a Bald Knobber is - no cheating!).

Straight from Bruce Dickinson's lips to your ears.

 More cowbell...

The State of the Union was last night.

I did not watch.

I had other things to do.

There is an election in November.

I hope we win.

1.  Your language suggests my answer - why legislate an escape hatch for people to avoid consequences of bad decisions?

2.  Rules?  See James above - these weren't "rules"; they were sound business practices and people are getting burned for forgetting them.

I've always preferred the old fashioned limit:  don't borrow more money than you can pay back.  If you break that rule, bad things happen, and no one has to pass a law or issue a regulation.