Incandescence

Snoink, The fear is that extreme liquidity of the "real" economy will happen if the credit-based economy doesn't stabilize (through government intervention). "Liquidity" is a fancy way of saying that ...

PC, I addressed what I believe to be most of the issues you raised in the thread for economic policy (sorry if I missed any; let me know). Best, Brad

Well, Sam, I disagree with most of your points. First off, taxes aren't meant to punish people for doing things: they're meant to convey information about the state and national ...

Palin isn't going to implode. The bank situation is the direct result of the regulations that McCain and other conservatives voted against. Regulations that forced them to give mortgages to ...

The choice of Sarah Palin is a sign of the times. In politics, the feminine enunciation is hence called to dominate (Everywhere we see a call for strong, dominating women). ...

Feminists need to understand there's a difference in sexual discrimination and willfully submitting to objectification a la TV shows and pornography. Even if her analysis is correct--I'm not saying it

This is the old iron kettle joke Freud tells. A man borrows a kettle and returns it with a crack. When asked what happened, he responds with three statements: (1) ...

Yes, Gadi, women voting for women because they're women? Third-wave feminists would do it if it weren't for McCain...

I think the actual fear is of the King.

You know, everyone around me is being struck with the moral dilemma of hoping it hits someone else besides us, while for me of course this is no moral dilemma ...

Erotically charged relationships between tutor and student are impossible to avoid; one of the major sites of attraction is the perception that someone has more knowledge than we do, i.e. ...

I want to know what the girls themselves have to say about this: are they happy with having fulfilled their pact, or are they, along with their parents, pressing charges ...

Embryos are human life because they produce human beings? I guess that's just like how caterpillars are actually butterflies because they eventually become butterflies. An embryo is an embryo is ...

Even if I was allowed to hit my students, I wouldn't. When it comes to the kids being violent, find out the reasons they hit the other kids. The student ...

Rei, You have to focus on all of it. You can't ignore bad behavior and reward only good behavior. You have to do all of it. I am not for ...