Taking The Joy Out Of Life: Mind Your Manners

Clare Briggs / November 12, 2018 in Comics / Taking The Joy Out of Life

Clare Briggs
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Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930.

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State of the Discussion

2 hours ago

to Chip Daniels

James K

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+ Did I say we should do nothing? In fact I said the opposite multiple times. I'd just prefer a solution that will do more good [. . .]

Did I say we should do nothing? In fact I said the opposite multiple times. I'd just prefer a solution that will do more good than harm.

I spend a lot of my professional life thinking about housing affordability, and I don't think inequality is the main issue - for one thing inequality is really only growing in the US and housing affordability is a problem all over the place.

The culprit I would finger is urban planning laws - the problem with letting the voters decide how land will be used is that the median voter is a home owner and is therefore indifferent to the problem of insufficient supply. There are ways of remedying this, they involve constraining the ways local governments can restrict development, and moving away from needing government permission for development to more of a tax-based system where doing something that's disruptive to your neighbours requires you to compensate them.

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The Sad Reality of Retirement in America

4 hours ago

to j r

Pinky

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+ We shouldn't be asking how we can classify the writer; we should be asking whether his position holds water. I don't care what his [. . .]

We shouldn't be asking how we can classify the writer; we should be asking whether his position holds water. I don't care what his background is. He lays out his position sufficiently clearly that we don't have to decode it. If Le Pen had written this, should we reject the argument on that alone?

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Donald Trump Is a Good President

5 hours ago

to Damon

Pinky

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+ But owning the libs is at best a conditional good. Standing up to bullies is great, but bullying them is just bullying. You [. . .]

But owning the libs is at best a conditional good. Standing up to bullies is great, but bullying them is just bullying. You can make an argument for Trump being a good president. He's certainly done better than I expected, and none of his high-risk maneuvers have completely blown up in his face. Historians may debate the merit of his North Korea policy, but there wouldn't be debate if it went as sour as it could have.

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Donald Trump Is a Good President

5 hours ago

to Damon

j r

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+ Social security as it actually exists is not a Ponzi scheme in any meaningful sense of the term. It's a pay-as-you-go social transfer. We just [. . .]

Social security as it actually exists is not a Ponzi scheme in any meaningful sense of the term. It's a pay-as-you-go social transfer. We just need to be honest about what that means.

This is another issue where the rhetoric on either side makes it much more difficult to clearly assess the issue and find a way forward.

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The Sad Reality of Retirement in America

7 hours ago

to James K

Michael Cain

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+ ...it’s “what’s wrong with the Rust Belt?”. That’s an important question, and one that deserves an answer... It is. Some of the problems the Rust [. . .]

...it’s “what’s wrong with the Rust Belt?”. That’s an important question, and one that deserves an answer...

It is. Some of the problems the Rust Belt faces, trivial and otherwise: the weather sucks, on average; lots of relatively-isolated medium-sized cities; infrastructure problems (eg, regionally there's most of a trillion dollars needed to fix the sewer systems); plenty of metro areas where the urban core's population crashed and has never recovered; relatively shrinking population (the states in an extended Rust Belt are on pace to lose 7-8 seats in the US House after the 2020 census); years of talent (human capital) drain.

This is a region with the population of a good-sized European country where, with a limited number of exceptions, the economy has been suffering for decades, pulling other things down with it. There's no obvious or easy way out.

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The Sad Reality of Retirement in America

7 hours ago

to Michele Kerr

Sam Wilkinson

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+ @michelle-kerr "her willingness to testify is not much, these days" is, again, based on what? She was in the courtroom when this sweetheart deal was [. . .]

@michelle-kerr "her willingness to testify is not much, these days" is, again, based on what? She was in the courtroom when this sweetheart deal was announced. She gave a victim statement in its aftermath, excoriating both her rapist (for what he did) and the court (for having conspired with him).

As for statutory rape: if men having sex with children are not being tagged as "sexual offenders" if the child had been forced into prostitution beforehand, the system is even more broken that I have alleged above. I guess I'm missing why prostitution would excuse a man's victimization of a child?

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Justin Schneider and Jacob Anderson Go Free; Cyntoia Brown Does Not

8 hours ago

to Sam Wilkinson

Michele Kerr

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+ The rape kit showed she had sex, presumably. And her willingness to testify is not much, these days. Do I think it's possible she is [. . .]

The rape kit showed she had sex, presumably. And her willingness to testify is not much, these days. Do I think it's possible she is lying? Absolutely. And so would many others, which is possibly why the DAs offer these deals.

" The idea that the law there shouldn’t count – or, worse, that she was overcharging for the sexual slavery she was forced into – is bonkers."

That's a bizarre interpretation. I said nothing about whether or not the law "should" count, only that it doesn't seem to be a typical charge. Statutory rape was not designed for prostitution. If it were, every john hiring an underage hooker would be charged with rape and tagged as a sexual offender, which I'm pretty sure is not happening.

Nor did I say she was overcharging, simply that in a country where sex can be obtained for far less, she was setting a fairly high price for her services. But it may be that she only pretended to prostitution, but in fact was always stealing from her johns. Who knows?

Am I sympathetic? No. But I do think 51 years is excessive for a 16 year old.

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Justin Schneider and Jacob Anderson Go Free; Cyntoia Brown Does Not

8 hours ago

Michele Kerr

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+ Doesn't SocSec still pay out to marrieds? That always seemed something that should go by the wayside. Or perhaps it did and I missed it. [. . .]

Doesn't SocSec still pay out to marrieds? That always seemed something that should go by the wayside. Or perhaps it did and I missed it.

Any woman who hasn't worked for 40 years and is now expecting to live off her husband's contributions--and being paid beyond that--is who should be working at Walmart.

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The Sad Reality of Retirement in America

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