*** April 2012 low content thread ***

Morley Safer’s infamous 1993 art story and the 2012 follow-up story

Is sugar toxic?

How War Reporting in Syria Makes a Larger Conflict Inevitable

U.S. Relaxes Limits on Use of Data in Terror Analysis

US anti-terrorism law curbs free speech and activist work, court told

Some good news from Argentina.

I love this for multiple reasons, but it’s useful as an entertaining refutation to the common leftist refrain “capitalism amounts to the survival of the fittest”. As Tom Woods points out, capitalism and free markets are essentially the only things that allow the survival of the unfittest.

Case in point:

Now, one may make the argument that she’s attractive, so there’d always be some guy willing to take care of her, but I have two counters to this point. (1) No amount of sugar daddies is going to prevent you from taking a nap in your car with the engine running and the garage door closed when you’re by yourself and the A/C in your house goes out. Technology will. And (2) these people exist by the millions. And they aren’t all pretty.

Really could have gone without that.

I don’t think she’s pretty, she’s got caveman-cheekbone. :-X

Think I should include a disclaimer like you did?

I guess you wouldn’t be one to make that argument, then, would ya? :slight_smile:

? If you want ? I’m not blaming you for the video.

Is sugar toxic?

Yet my diet/lifestyle plans keep being laughed at on this forum.

If he wasn’t such a statist, and didn’t so blindly believe the Republican Party actually stands for all the stuff he talks about, he might actually have something here:

(of course if he wanted to make an actual “guide to Republicans”, that would have to be a completely different video. Here’s a start.)

What I love is the comment: “The points made in this video made the Republicans sound more like Libertarians than Republicans”…which of course would be poison to the ears of these PJTV statists.

Bill Whittle:

Is the Flying Car a Dream or Reality?

Pharmaceuticals are the same as poisons.

Police Finally Allow Waitress to keep $12,000 Tip After Jerking Her Around Until She Lawyered Up

Douchebags.

MPAA Wants To Force Megaupload Host Server To Sit on All That Data So They Can Take Their Time and Sue More People

Douchebags.

Update

Olbermann sues Current TV for $50M, cites glitches

aaaHahahaha. Douchebag.

Experts predicting food crisis

How much longer until a fuel crisis?

How much longer until you go live in the woods?

We should get a countdown thread for him.

Why do you need to know?