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Personally happy to see that the new tax code appears to reduce the inequality between staff and executives, with regard to compensation and taxation. I'm a strong advocate for lev…

I think the author has nailed the point, spot on. A person's life is valuable, regardless of their age and morbidity (or how they came to acquire a lethal health condition). I've s…

I was trying to bring into focus some key challenges. I've personally known two people whom overdosed on heroine. It's a tragedy, for certain. However, I'm just trying to indicate …

Does anyone struggle with the fact that 1) people who are very sick or injured need pain control and 2) the only tool in a doctor's bag is an opoid and 3) we are somehow going afte…

I lived in NYC when Crazy Eddie was big. Never realized he ran such a scam. Thanks for the post. LOL

Conflating volatility with "problem causing" is an error of logic.

Water boils at 212F, melts at 32F. It is a sufficient model of evcaporation. For dicamaba to have a sufficient concentration to harm (even targeted plants) it must be rather concen…

Where is the evidence to suggest that evaporated dicamba is able to condense in sufficient quantity to effect plants at a distance? I've lived among large production farm, much of …

Whenever the natural balance of market forces is disturbed by the injection of second-order resources (subsidies, inheritance, generally anything that isn't earned value, etc.), th…

That disparity is confusing to me, too. My interpretation is that the spread between the actual value of the "items as-delivered" and the "paper cost of the items as-described" was…

This sounds similar to check "kiting" [link] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_kiting , that was popular before electronic checking transactions made it nearly impossible. "Kitin…

This article seems to reference a personality trait that seems to be lacking in modern society: grit. Just my person opinion. Heck, I've lacked grit, in some situations. For a good…