King Solomon Had The Right Idea After All
From Reason.com –
Melissa Harris-Perry says that children belong to the community, not their parents.
No, really. I’m not paraphrasing, that’s what she said.
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we have this private notion of children. ‘Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility.’ We haven’t had a very collective notion of ‘these are our children.’ So part of it is to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.
“Once it’s everybody’s responsibility, and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments.”
There’s another video of her at Newsbusters where she dismisses a fertilized egg as nonhuman and opines thusly –
[T]he reality is that if this turns into a person, right, there are economic consequences, right? The cost to raise a child, $10,000 a year up to $20,000 a year. When you’re talking about what it actually costs to have this thing turn into a human, why not allow women to make the best choices that we can with as many resources and options instead of trying to come in and regulate this process?
“I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’ ‘I am homeless, the Government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first… There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.”
Taking A Shat
Apparently The Adaptive Curmudgeon hates everyone with such a passion he would drop a raccoon turd on your dinner plate if he could, but since he doesn’t have a couple billion of the masked critters to aim and squeeze at Dollar Menu entrees, he posted this instead –
It was moderately amusing for me (for me, for meee), but then I find things like Late Night Mistakes and Batman vs. Donkey Kong to be High Art, so I don’t think I qualify as an arbiter of crimes against culture. In fact, I’m quite likely a repeat offender.
Which is a good enough segue as any to drop these classy bits from LNM…
Dude, smile! You’re harshing the mellow at this party
…and a thousand hentai jokes were launched
“Drink up, mates!” indeed
The Swiss Black Market Has Nothing On Wisconsin
[Or: “Hot Cheese”]
Did April Fool’s show up a few days early this year…?
Man found with $200K in stolen cheese, police say
One man is facing criminal charges in New Jersey after detectives found a truck he was driving with roughly $200,000 worth of stolen Muenster cheese from Wisconsin.
Veniamin Konstantinovich Balika, 34, of Plainfield, Ill., was arrested at the Vince Lombardi Service Area off the New Jersey Turnpike. New Jersey State Police Detective 1 Oliver Sissman said he allegedly provided false paperwork to the distributor of K&K Cheese in Cashton last week to get the 42,000 pounds of cheese loaded onto his 18-wheel truck.
No spur-of-the-moment cheese theft is this. The guy did some work to prepare for his escapade. He was planning to sell it under market value to some East Coast retailers. Cheese for cheese, I suppose.
The Greatest Story Never Sold
… which is a shame, because I would totally buy it.
You know you want to read this
Loops
So I’m sick as a dog but can’t sleep, so I’m watching old episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s just high-end enough to keep me interested, but comfortable and familiar enough not to overexert my fuzzed-out brain.
I was watching the episode where the Enterprise gets caught in a time loop and at the end they encounter a starship named the Bozeman, captained by Kelsey Grammer. It suddenly hit me that on The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon decided to move to Bozeman Minnesota after his apartment was robbed. Sure enough, it was done as a quiet shout-out to Star Trek. Bozeman was also the place where humans first met Vulcans, so naturally Sheldon would go there.
Funny what you think of when your head is swimming in circles.
Blue Gives Way To Black
Just for the hell of it, a drawing of Kimbra –
Cheer up, you’r not drawn that bad (but your hat could be drawn better)
This is the preliminary sketch – maybe I should stick to pencil.
Blue singer
The Keynes To A Broken Lock
From here –
Applying the multiplier effect to the aggregate demand for broken glass sweep-ups. Because people can never get enough of that
I have to agree with Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek that this cartoon is not even a little bit unfair.
Fitting that this is Post #69, since Keynesian economists don’t actually produce anything, but just sit around clumsily making each other feel good.
What’s The Use?
Chateau Heartiste has another “Beta Of The Month” going, with three candidates in the running. Contestant #3, knowing his wife was about to cheat or had already done so, posted –
People are to be LOVED. Things are to be USED. The reason why the world is in chaos is because THINGS are being LOVED and PEOPLE are being used,” the message declares.
Love and use are not mutually exclusive. Years ago, Walter E. Williams wrote –
I’m reminded of charges of exploitation Mrs. Williams used to make early on in our 44-year marriage. She’d charge, “Walter, you’re using me!” I’d respond by saying, “Honey, sure, I’m using you. If I had no use for you, I wouldn’t have married you in the first place.” How many of us would marry a person for whom we had no use? As a matter of fact, the problem of the lonely hearts among us is that they can’t find someone to use them.
So, who’s using you?
Zero Sum
So a woman was telling a couple of us about someone she knows who is pregnant, and the baby has something that would qualify it as “special needs” once born…
Her: She already has a couple special needs kids, she doesn’t think she can handle another one.
Me: Can’t she have the baby and give it up for adoption? There are couples who will take special needs children.
Her: She doesn’t think she can have the baby and then give it up to someone else.
Me: So she’d rather give it up to nobody?
That was pretty much the end of the conversation.
Rain Of Temptation
I went to the pizza place and ordered extra cheese w/ green pepper. As I was carrying the box back to my car, I suddenly decided to check inside the box. Pepperoni.
I dropped to my knees on the cement sidewalk as the light rainy drizzle fell. Why, I shouted to the Heavens while shaking my fists in empty rage against my fate, couldn’t I have waited until I got home and it would have been too much effort to drive back and get it without pepperoni?
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