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Comment on From NIMBY to BANANA by Environment goes bananas « Utan titel

Environment goes bananas « Utan titel — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:07:14 +0000

[...] i USA har de hittat på en ny term för dethär. Det räcker inte med NIMBY längre, nu är det BANANA som gäller. Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything, ingenting får byggas i närheten av någonting [...]

Comment on New Book by Lewis Black by Will

Will — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:50:23 +0000

I read the first half of it this weekend; hilarious. I’m excited to get to the second half of it.

Comment on Mt. Kraznydang Climbers Perish in Avalanche by Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:11:36 +0000

Mt. Kraznydang is in fact an optical illusion - a hollow cone 10,198 meters deep into which mountaineers fall. The entire Podguznik range was a benthic rift like the Mariana Trench before secret Soviet CO2 deep sequestration pumped it into the sky. (One presumes the Russian mountaineer shouted “сукин сын!” The Netherlands and their Official CO2 burial agenda are already suffering altitude sickness.

Comment on New Book by Lewis Black by around the corner and down the hall

around the corner and down the hall — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:27:56 +0000

Read the book over the weekend and couldn’t keep from laughing out loud! LB certainly makes you think about mainstream (and non-mainstream) religion and the fanatics it brings out. highly recommended and certainly worth the price…

Comment on Dinner, a movie, and fireworks by gaussling

gaussling — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:57:24 +0000

I agree with the distraction criterion. My tolerance for total immersion in reality is diminishing with age.

Movie theaters keep only a small part of the ticket sales. At least early in the run. A token price for admission with high priced drinks would help the theater but not the film distribution company, who in the end, calls the shots on bookings.

Comment on From NIMBY to BANANA by Joey

Joey — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:47:44 +0000

For those of you who thought you were alone. A serious link…

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-170833015500746460&hl=en

Comment on Dinner, a movie, and fireworks by Nick

Nick — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:12:14 +0000

Movie theaters should serve booze. That would lower the ticket price.

Comment on Dinner, a movie, and fireworks by genie

genie — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:53:45 +0000

I have one test for entertainment (especially movies) - did it distract me so much I did not once think about my current woes/challenges.

In a good movie I am completely transported away.

It is difficult for me to place dollar value on this service.

Comment on From NIMBY to BANANA by Hap

Hap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:53:46 +0000

We’ve been spending money we don’t have because paying more for a substantially lower standard living doesn’t appeal to a large number of voters, who prefer to spend other people’s money (or, in a sort of parody of liberal government, pay someone’s else’s money to lower their own pay, support incompetent management, and get their kids and other people killed). (I’m aware that gov’t big enough to give me what I want is big enough to take it away too, but what Goldwater elided is that businesses will instead be big enough to take it instead, but won’t give what you wish in any case) The problem is that by the time it does become palatable, it will be because the alternative is a cardboard box and moldy bread, the people who spent the money are dead and gone, and it will be as unavailable an alternative as it is palatable.

This doesn’t really inspire hope.

Comment on From NIMBY to BANANA by Craig

Craig — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:25:09 +0000

Since we’re on the topic of bananas. America as a banana republic.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/05/america-banana-republic-watch.html

As for Uncle-Al’s comments. I seriously doubt libertarianism is a viable option in today’s complex global world. It’s a model that works fine in the old-west, possibly an agrarian society. Just take a look at Germany or even Japan to see how they’re suffering under all those govt rules. We suffer here, because the government is owned by the likes of J.P Morgan , IBM, etc.