I Know I Am But What Are You?

Shorter "The Benefits of Health Benefits"

Ezra Klein says "If you hate health insurance so much why don't you divorce it?" Hah! Joke's on him! If I could, I'd get rid of my health insurance and get a different kind of health insurance, proving my hatred of health insurance isn't hypocritical. Also, I'd only do this because I'm an upper class white person, and all those studies that show lower class brown people dying from lack of insurance are therefor flawed.

And because I like things I like more than I like things I hate (What?!?!! I DO?!?!?!):

BONUS FUN!

Now, Let's Discuss The Farm Bill

Ms. McArdle seems to have found a word combo she likes. And we're not surprised she's gotten her teeth into it & won't let go. A recent comment (Sorry, no further memory. If anyone remembers more, please advise, in best Jonah Goldberg style. Thanks!!) noted her re-use of titles. Trying to disguise it w/ "Dep't. of ..." is an insult to her readers.

17 Aug 2009 12:30 pm

Department of Surprising Findings

Global warming started with farming. Somehow, it always comes back to agricultural policy.

She's right there. (Two in a row? Whuh? Is she slipping, or am I?) As blathered elsewhere, the reactionary/progressive divide is essentially the differences between the rural & urban mindsets & cultures.

Excuse me, but as I type, Ezra Klein (Of the Washington Post. How's your career, Megan?) has appeared on television.

Ezra.... Better than Himself.

Hoo boy:

(...)I've got a feature in this month's Prospect(...)

<snip>

Anyway, the piece is transcendent, give it a read.

He knows it's transcendent 'cause his mom told him so. What she failed to tell him was that it transcends any kind of decent writing or even proper grammar/syntax.

Dear lord, these people think highly of themselves.

Ezra, stupid enough to believe a sound-byte

I don't know why I'm so eager to insult people today, but if I can't insult Megan I'll insult her friends.

So I strolled on over to our favorite ambiguously gay blogger's house and, like the lazy ass that I am, took a gander at a few of his most recent posts

This one caught my eye. He quotes Al Gore saying "Here's the difference, when the demand for wind and solar goes u, costs go down. When demand for oil and gas goes up, prices go up." and gives an enthusiastic "True dat girlfriend!" before ducking his head, checking to ensure that no one saw, and typing a muted "True enough."

You know what's also true? The difference between driving to work and skydiving to work is that when demand for skydiving goes up, prices come down! We should totally invest in skydiving, ASA-FUCKING-P.

You see, dipshits, oil is an entrenched part of our economy and there are not many easy ways left to utilize it more efficiently (and no, fuck nuts, replacing the entire US fleet of cars with slightly more efficient models isn't actually easy), which is why its demand is inelastic and supply is limited.

Renewable energies are a fringe market, not even close to fully implemented that hardly even glimpse the economies of scale that oil does, let alone have seen the hard core research that oil has seen for like the past million fucking years.

If we had a renewables based economy and there was a demand spike, guess what, PRICES FOR ENERGY WOULD STILL GO UP.

I'm all for renewables, but let's try not to muck up the cause with a bunch of "being a fucking moron" along the way, eh?

Damn you Ezra!

This post really pisses me off.

I loved that shirt! I have been thinking about buying one for years. Now I can't! Motherfucker!

Insert some joke about Matt's being an XXXXXXXL.

Hmmmm....... this post leaves me feeling a bit....... um... what's the word? Oh yes, childish.

Hahahaha! TAKE THAT MEGAN!!!!!