"Maybe I should have made mine a cartoon."I would love to see a response to this with equally arresting graphics which unmasks the folly of the old, tired income redistribution schemes this video seems to call for. A hot link which becomes equally viral as an instant reponse. Anyone aware of a candidate that already exists?

I am not well-versed when it comes to economics, but I think often about population questions, especially in regards to natural means of fertility regulation. (The term "birth control" really deserves the same fate as the obsolete and rightly scorned term "eugenics.")As a traditional Catholic who agrees with and follows the teaching of the Church in these matters (as best I can, however poorly that may be), I have come to recognize that to even have a chance of successfully practicing periodic continence when necessary to avoid pregnancy, I have had to completely change my mindset about everything, so that my center of gravity is now all about the meaning and value of human persons.Thus, even to ask why we "need" rising populations sounds a bit brutish and coarse to my ears. The proper question should be: "Isn't rising population something we naturally desire in and of itself , as human beings are more precious and valuable to us than any 'commodity' or comfort?" It seems to me if the answer is really "no" for most people, than the questions of economics of robots is so far down the list as to be ridiculously irrelevant.Culture indeed.

Yeah guys, it was me! I was the first one to post "backwards". Nice to hear JH and BW live again. I'm a MN listener and have heard them for years on the radio. I missed Thune, but I caught the tail end of Barone, very interesting. I'll download the podcast so I can hear what I missed....

Will Saturday Night Live give Biden the lampooning he so richly deserves?  If I were a writer or a Biden impersonator, I'd be salivating right now about the comedic possibilities of depicting this debate.  Unfortunately they will probably savage the bit-too-respectful Paul Ryan by depicting him as young and inexperienced.

I had the pleasure of reading this to my wife last night as she drifted into sleep, and she laughed, even though I had to explain the reference.  I agree, Hemingway's da bomb!

As a young teen, I attended classes at the Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company. It was an open secret that artistic director John Donahue "liked young boys". But his enormous talent led any responsible person who heard about it to look the other way. In this case it was the entire "arts" community in the Twin Cities who protected a pedophile and rationalized his behavior. The only way I could explain what they were thinking is that somehow in their minds his talent and high artistic vision placed him in another class of human being who did not have to follow the laws of average men. Not sure if they thought about the poor abused kids at all. When he was finally arrested in the early 80's, dozens of victims came forward with heart-breaking stories.Whether it is sports or the arts, are talent and success a drug powerful enough to induce child neglect in others?

Rahm Emmanuel as Scott Walker? I'm not holding my breath. But perhaps he is learning a thing or two about budgets from Guv across the northern border.

And I thought I couldn't be more impressed with the first man I ever voted for as POTUS. Thanks for the great story, Peter.

One day I was eating lunch with a dozen teachers (M & F) at a big table and one of these female teachers started talking about how she would much rather work with men than women, and I chimed in how my wife says the same thing. Well, a different female teacher got really offended and said "Hey, I'm sitting right here, I'm not comfortable with this conversation, would you please stop?"That shut me down right away, but the first women continued in about how difficult it has been for her to work with and especially under women, blah, blah.  Needless to say, the rest of that lunch period was a little awkward.  But we are all still friends now, it is just a really explosive topic.

Wow, super-interesting, rollicking discussion, the kind I would hope to see on Ricochet.My wife (who at 50 loves to ask "how old do you think I am?" because a lot of people think she looks 30) work in a clinic at a large hospital. She is pretty low on the food chain (medical assistant) because after raising 6 kids she just wanted to work part-time. She always says it is a good day when she works with male doctors and always complains about working with the female doctors because of many of the issues discussed above: pettiness, cattiness, backbiting, etc.Meanwhile I work as a teacher at a private school where it seems the administration has purposely, consciously not discriminated against beautiful women. As a result we have a notable number of female teachers who are both wholesomely but knockout beautiful. AND intelligent and capable.

Since children of educated religious parents tend to have children with similar values, this trend should continue until the non-religious essentially die off (as compared to the exponential growth of the population of church-goers). If I was a non-religious elite, I would seriously consider some kind of plan to keep this from happening, starting with making all the religious people pay for my contraception...

One could see this as a sign of hope.  At least they have noticed a problem and are doing something to try to ameliorate it, even if it looks to some like closing the barn doors after the horses got out.

Five years ago guidelines like these were much rarer in public high schools, only in the tony private Catholic or religious schools (like my employer) would you see such specific guidelines be introduced, much less adhered to.   Unfortunately, we found that you have to have several ADULT adults who are willing to send crying girls home in order to make it work.  Such people are harder to come by than some might imagine.

In addition, you also have to enforce such a policy at EVERY semi-formal dance, not just prom.  That way prom is a snap, the kids already know the drill if they attended dances in freshman and sophomore years.

I once had the privilege of being asked to serve as a member of th board of governors of an NSF-funded research center. Well, it was a privilege for me, a lowly high school math teacher. It was there I found out to my chagrin how large a role politics plays in the decision to fund or not to fund, to hire or not to hire. Naive idealist that I was, I thought scientific merit had something to do with it.

I read Brietbart's book Righteous Indignation last summer, and since gave it my college-age son and his future in-laws to read. Truly inspiring reading, but now I hope it provides the blueprint for 100 other young firebrands to follow in the footsteps of Andrew the happy warrior.Thanks Mr. Sajak, for sharing this wonderful memory of a man who made a difference.

My boys loved a cartoon called George Shrinks, about a kid who is five inches tall living in a normal-sized family. The adults are annoyingly eccentric, but George's unfailingly fearless good old-fashioned American can-do attitude, with the help of good gadgets, makes this one worth it. You can find several episodes on YouTube.

The schemes of the left for ordering society which we conservatives despise the most are those that by their very nature MUST involve ALL of us: universal health care being the primary example.  

Therefore every individual in society must go along with such a plan willingly or shut up and go along unwillingly in order for it to "work."  (And by a lefty-plan "working" we mean of course that it is a complete disaster. But it makes liberal-lefties feel better somehow.  Until it completely collapses, then they blame us for not going along with it more willingly.)

Rinse and repeat!