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My favorite reply to this editorial in Canada’s National Post is:

“Americans spent a total of 17.3% of national income on health care, up from 16.2% in 2008. Most other advanced countries spend between 8% and 11%. Second-place Switzerland spends about 11.5%.”

That’s because they are rich. And we’re not. Thanks to odious and foolish Frumish policies like thinking that having big bucks to spend on goodies, and then spending those big bucks on said goodies is bad. Just another anti-sumptuary. Frum, in my judgment, your clothes are too flashy, too much of the economy goes to yuppie open collared dress shirts for economic illiterates, time for some sack-cloth. This comment is my attempt to dump ashes on your foolish head, to go with the sack-cloth.

I do not want my spending on health care restricted. I want to have American grade big bucks to spend on health, or any other damn thing I choose. When I’m old and near death I intend to spend 99% of my economy on my health care. Or possibly hookers and blow.

But it is my choice and you should STFU.

In case you haven’t seen this yet - a 2007 video from MadTV introducing the IPAD.

Best of all is comment below the video from default013:

Who gives a shit what was first? It’s still funny as hell.
Crazy apple cultists. Why don’t you worship Obama like normal cultists do?

Just in case you haven’t seen this yet:

The price is.

I just got my PG&E bill. $0.38 per kwh. WTF!!

My natural gas is $1.23 per therm, or equivalent to  $0.042 per kwh.

I don’t know how efficient a natural gas generator is, but even at 20% efficiency that still works out to $0.21 per kwh, and I could use the waste heat to heat my house. Electricity prices in California are bullshit. Someone is making a killing from this.

The next time someone tells you we need electric cars, tell them that the only way to afford them would be to install natural gas generators in everyone’s house. Or maybe we could just use a natural gas powered cars. Gee, what a revolutionary idea that would be.

It never stops. Terrorists are going to bring down civilization with unlocked i-phones.

The move is essential to AT&T as Wi-Fi via wired broadband is much cheaper than 3G data transmission. It is estimated that as few as 12 iPhones streaming video can swamp a single iPhone tower, leading to Apple suggesting that terrorists could use unlocked iPhones as a dangerous weapon to our nation’s communications.

Well, I suppose followers of the almighty Apple might think that having their i-phone suddenly stop working is comparable to dropping an atom bomb on New York, but I think that they really ought to get some treatment for their affliction. Maybe there is an app for that.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

Use this one on the people you work with. It is incredibly expressive.

A long article from the National Post, but worth reading.