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• Lance Armstrong Admits He Started Doping About 20 Years Ago in Oprah Interview

  January 17, 2013 at 11:52pm

  As far as I’m concerned, what Armstrong did was not wrong. The problem is that folks believe that drugs taken to aid one in sports are fundamentally worse than say a drug taken to lower blood pressure. As long as the aim is to preserve body life, it’s OK to take a drug. If, however, the drug is taken to expand one’s ability to think or to use one’s muscles in a sport, then it’s evil. To me, that is a kind of puritanism, the same kind that says too many sweets in a soda or eating a Big Mac if you’re overweight is evil. You enjoy it, so there must be something wrong.

• Are Today’s Graduates Unemployable?

  January 10, 2013 at 12:51pm

  I would say that the biggest problem is that college students have not been taught how to make the best use of college or of defining what they really want out of life and how they plan to get it. When people take courses that interest them, they need to find teachers and students who share their interests. They have to get to know them. Particularly with teachers, they have to volunteer to help the teachers do their writing or experiments.Students have to learn how to make daily plans, long term and short term. That way, courses tend to align with their deepest needs. If they have problems asking for help, they have to be given help for that. All these areas are currently not taught by the colleges.

• Take a Tour of This ‘Hobbit House’ Tucked Away Into the Pennsylvania Countryside

  December 12, 2012 at 11:26pm

  It looks utterly fantastic! I wish I could go there and see it and maybe stay there a while!
  Mike

• ‘F**k Off Pope’: Pope Benedict Joins Twitter & Is Greeted With These Vicious ‘Bile & Hate’ Tweets

  December 3, 2012 at 5:57pm

  Being an Ayn-Rand atheist, the idea of a pope makes no sense. On the other hand, if a religion has persisted for 2000 years, I presume there is *some* good within it, that it has fulfilled some definite needs. So I am opposed to blatant disrespect without at the same time affirming that which is good.
  On a political level, the big problem I have is that the pope is not enthusiastically pro-capitalism. He is in a position to *know* beyond doubt the wonders that capitalism has done to make life better for folks throughout the earth. Yet he criticizes it as if he does not understand the good within it. Most importantly, capitalism is about peace, about obtaining goods through peaceful trade, not through war nor socialist redistribution.

• Charles Krauthammer Calls the Final Debate: ‘It’s Unequivocal – Romney Won’

  October 23, 2012 at 3:09am

  My sense is that Obama won the debate based on technical rhetorical points. I think the upshot of it all is the focus group on Hannity after the debate. Most of the folks voted for Obama in 2008. Most of the folks felt that Obama was better in foreign policy while Romney was better on the economy. To me, that decided the election. The economy is what is going to drive this election almost totally.

• Gallup: Romney Extends Lead to 7 Points In First Post-Debate Poll

  October 18, 2012 at 3:43pm

  Bravo, Blackdiamondskier! I don’t think Obama really won the debate last time. He was just a lot more aggressive. I think Romney missed a chance, when he was asked how to deal with Apple that wanted to outsource building the new iphone, to tell the moderator that it is not the business of government to tell businesses where they buy whatever they buy. It’s not clear to me that Romney really understands the nature of the free market or what “freedom” really means. If he did, he would celebrate the Chinese who, by manipulating their currency, are giving Americans *bargains* in all kinds of goods! He would recognize that America has been better at providing new information than manufacturing goods for a while now, a fact recognized in all the business books! He would not talk about more tariffs with China or trade wars. Tariffs just raise prices on Chinese goods. I thought his business was to help us buy stuff at less prices!! When all is said and done, though, Romney does know a lot about creating jobs within our economy, though he doesn’t understand the economy itself. Obama, in comparison, knows how to do *nothing* of that sort. You’re talking about a highly trained business professional competing with a community organizer and a fine speaker and a lousy record! No points that Obama scores will change that fact. In the first debate, he looked like a sullen youngster. For many folks, it felt like the veil came off and we saw some of what Obama’s character really was lik

• Fla. School District Lets Pro-Obama Group Register Students to Vote, Deliver Speeches

  October 9, 2012 at 2:55am

  I don’t understand. If a school child is below 18 years of age, doesn’t he or she have to show an ID in order to vote in Florida? Or have they stopped asking for IDs in the name of making sure even those poor folks who lack picture IDs get to vote??

• Woman Ridiculed by Kroger Manager for Using Food Stamps — Over the Line?

  September 25, 2012 at 8:49pm

  I think the issue is: did the manager *know* that Nerger had the kidney problem? Or not?
  Mike

• Bill Clinton Rocks DNC: Second Obama Term Means ‘Shared Prosperity’

  September 6, 2012 at 12:19am

  OK, Clinton lied about the wonderful jobs Obama created. He also did not mention how Obamacare would help the elderly or anyone, really. But, in contrast to Obama, Clinton’s style was that of introducing reason into the discussion. Obama was the fiery orator who was the Elmer Gantry of politics. He lied, everyone knew it, and they loved him anyways. Clinton lies but folks feel he has a point or three, in part because of the way he presented his ideas…as the product of logic mixed with passion, not just passion.

• ‘We Stand With Chick-fil-A’: North Carolina Wendy’s Signs Touch Off Controversy

  August 2, 2012 at 1:49am

  Folks,
  Freedom of speech is strictly about government interfering in the speech of private citizens. It has nothing to do with a corporation saying “No” to speech that it deems against its self-interest.
  That being said, I rather wish that corporate Wendy’s had gone along with its franchisee. I happen to be an Ayn Rand-atheist (that is, I believe we all need a code of ethics to have long, happy lives) but
  I like the gutsy quality of that franchisee! I wish a lot of businesses would hang out signs saying: We are obeying X regulations strictly because we could be fined and jailed if we did not. We do not, most emphatically, agree with X regulation.