Tony Soprano is dead

[The Mad Monk]

I think she has some good ideas, but that does not mean that I subscribe to all of them.

[Wezil]

The tragic thing here is his fatherless thirteen year old son. He did live life the way he wanted, period. Once you're dead, it doesn't matter what you did or did not do, other than how how it affects the people you left behind.

I'm childless so my hedonism is guilt free.

[Tuberski]

Will the aspirin let me safely eat like a glutton and smoke my face off?

You aren't American, so you're safe.

ACK!

[Sava]

I think she has some good ideas

now let me stop you right there

[The Mad Monk]

No, I don't think I will.

[DaShi]

TMM, please stop posting.

[Dinner]

I liked him as an actor though he seemed type cast long before the Sopranos.

[Dinner]

I think she has some good ideas, but that does not mean that I subscribe to all of them.

Which ones exactly? I can't for the life of me think of a single good idea she espoused.

[kentonio]

She provided a simple and sure fire test to recognize obnoxious conservative college students, and for that she deserves at least a golf clap.

[MikeH]

Having kids is absolutely selfish. You've got to pass on your genes.

[Dinner]

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.

That's another bull**** quote. The only reason unemployment doubled in the recession of 1937 is because Republicans, then like now, demanded massive and completely unnecissary budget cuts in the face of a weak economy. By 1935 unemployment had halved and the economy had grown to pre-depression levels almost entirely thanks to the new deal. In 1936 Republicans won seats in Congress, demanded austarity, and suddenly the depression was back because it is always bad policy to cut in the face of weak private demand. Government spending went back up and, like magic, the recession of 1937 ended and unemployment started going down again. An even bigger government spending program known as WW2 kept the economy growing.

[The Mad Monk]

Which ones exactly? I can't for the life of me think of a single good idea she espoused.

That we should always strive toward doing the highest quality work we can, and that we should encourage it in others by buying only the highest quality goods and services we can afford, instead of mountains of crap.

For one.

[The Mad Monk]

That's another bull**** quote. The only reason unemployment doubled in the recession of 1937 is because Republicans, then like now, demanded massive and completely unnecissary budget cuts in the face of a weak economy. By 1935 unemployment had halved and the economy had grown to pre-depression levels almost entirely thanks to the new deal. In 1936 Republicans won seats in Congress, demanded austarity, and suddenly the depression was back because it is always bad policy to cut in the face of weak private demand. Government spending went back up and, like magic, the recession of 1937 ended and unemployment started going down again. An even bigger government spending program known as WW2 kept the economy growing.

3.

[MikeH]

That we should always strive toward doing the highest quality work we can, and that we should encourage it in others by buying only the highest quality goods and services we can afford, instead of mountains of crap.

For one.

Hmm.

A lot of times "good enough" is good enough and it's better to do all the things that need doing to the standard required rather than a few things to extremely high quality.

So there's a balance. At some point additional effort or quality is pointless and doesn't make the thing more useful so it's wasteful and inefficient.

[The Mad Monk]

Yes, I agree with that, but as an ideal it beats the tar out of always go for the lowest bidder regardless of quality, which is what we mostly have now.