You can contact me at dreadpiratemoyer@3ph.org.
We’ve got a lot of problems in this country: crippling debt, multiple wars abroad draining both physical and human capital, an unwinnable drug war, crazy-ass healthcare costs/regulations, and most importantly, unfunded liabilities in social security that are larger than even the overall production of the economy itself. Looking at all of this, it’s hard to believe in a brighter future, isn’t it?
NOT ANYMORE!
I present to you the final solution to all of our societal ills: The Island.
Look, we all know the golden rules of public pooping (cover the seat with toilet paper, always use the handicapped stall, never poop adjacent to a fellow pooper), but in discussions with my coworkers and friends (I talk about poop a lot), I’ve noticed that almost everyone I know is clueless when it comes to advanced public pooping techniques. Continue reading
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Why? Because only big businesses have the resources to get over the regulatory walls the government builds.
Free the economy. Expose these behemoths to competition. Force them to serve the people and rid them of the privileges their lobbyists have gotten them.
After all, if free markets are so awesome for corporations and evil businessmen, why are none of them donating to the Ron Paul campaign?
(hint: because it’s regulations, not markets, that help corporations succeed)
I don’t have many rigid rules in life, but if I had to think of one, it’s that I always try to be friendly and respectful to people until they’ve proven themselves unworthy of friendliness and respect. However, there’s a big problem with living by that rule: I have a bad habit of inadvertently being a giant asshole. Continue reading
You want to know one of my biggest pet peeves? Terms like “the market” and “the economy” and “self-regulation.”
They’re bogus. They conceal how the world really works. They make it seem like trade and exchange are governed by some mysterious pantheon of gods from ancient Greece called “the market” and “the economy,” and hide the fact that when economists say these things, they’re actually talking about normal fucking people.
