Warren - No need to shut up. This is an interesting conversation. Here. Have a scotch. Cheers.
The only comment I want to make is on time-outs for kids. It is interesting that when they become adults, if they misbehave they get a time out, ie. prison. Western societies did away with corporal punishment for adults many years ago.
Your country is, AFAIK, unique in the western world in having a death penalty, but that’s a whole nuther issue.
Mik - I used to like Hilary until she made that stupid comment abvout the 9-11 terrorists coming in from Canada. She claimed the border was too porous. But when she was told that none of them came across the US/Canada border, she said that it nevertheless shows that the Canadian border is a plausible threat. She could have said that she was wrong and that when the two nations work together blah blah blah … and I would have respected her for that. I know it’s just one incident, but it suggests a certain pig-headedness that is not an attractive characteristic in a potential head of state.
I’ve been alive since the Eisenhower years. Each president in my lifespan has had stregths and weaknesses. I think Bush is the stupidest. Dangerously so.
I think of trickle down economics as like a giant buffet where only the rich are given a plate. The theory is that they will pile their plates so high that a few crumbs will spill over. The rest of us get to eat the crumbs. The higher the plate is stacked, the more crumbs we get.
