Kudzu_Bob

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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
I shall have to add "Having a good reputation is really a handicap" to the list of such eternal verities as "Poor people are happier than the rich because their lives are simpler" and "It isn't easy being beaut
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Odd that Pittsburgh, another Midwestern industrial town of about the same size as Detroit, has faced very similar difficulties, but is now doing pretty well for itself, so much so that some now consider it America's most livable city.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
The amount of time being discussed here is well under thirty years. In any event, property stolen during the Second World War is still being returned forcibly to its original owners.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
If I rob your girlfriend of a nice ring she's wearing so that I can give it to my girlfriend, does my girlfriend legally get to keep the ring once the crime becomes known, just because the theft took place years ago?
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
If a person is raised since age seven in a house his parents bought with money that they embezzled, and then at age thirty he inherits the house from them, must he give it up once the source of the family's ill-gotten gains is discover
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Observation is prior to explanation. Compile a list of countries good at wealth-creation. Then make another list of the ones where people went through Ice Age conditions. Now compare them.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Zambia is poor because it never had an Ice Age.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
This is just like how the North Koreans used humiliation and sleep deprivation to brainwash American POWs.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
You shouldn't reply to comments that you haven't read.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Most sensible comment by far on this thread.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
If emotional intelligence can be taught (which it can't, because the concept is as bogus as those Baby Einstein videos that used to be so popular, but never mind), then smart people will be the ones to master it. Why? Because smart peo
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Men are grossly overrepresented in such dangerous jobs as fishing and logging, and yet feminists remain utterly unconcerned about this. Could it be that equality really isn't what they seek?
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
As Captain Redlegs says in The Outlaw Josey Wales, "Doin' right ain't got no end."
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
You've got it exactly backwards. It's dysgenics when the more socially responsible elements quit having kids.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Worst idea ever. It would simply ensure that the people who give a damn will breed themselves out of existence, thereby ensuring that the world is inherited by the clueless and irresponsible.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Then the price should be fifty dollars. Make it about status.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Because of this I have tripled the number of buzzwords in my business documents, thereby convincing the boss that I am a goddamn genius. My promotion takes effect tomorrow. Thanks, Buzz-Grade!
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Should have been called "Winning Your Arguments By Defining the Terms."
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
High school kids can be mean. Film at eleven.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Do you mean that if I choose the path of self-improvement and self-education, then I could realistically aspire to become a male cover model, even though I'm not especially handsome, or play for the Knicks, despite being a mere five-fo
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
In other words, people of average and below-average intelligence are screwed.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
They did no such thing, unless "decent" means living like an animal. Next thing, you'll be telling me that living in stacked chicken wire cages, the some people do in Hong Kong, counts as innovation.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Some of those innovators might want to dial back the self-congratulations and get busy innovating decent, affordable housing.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
If the good people who read the above article follow Allison Benedikt's prescription then we will end up with a society in which their children are poorly schooled in the name of egalitarianism, and only the children of bad people rec
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
> Germany was divided in two after WWII, something almost no one anticipated. Nonsense. Haven't you heard of the Society for the Prevention of World War III, not to mention the Morgenthau Plan, both of which advocated the dismemberm
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Didn't you mean to imply that blacks in countries bordering the US had substantially lower crime rates than blacks in the US? If you didn't, then I have no idea what you were getting at.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
The article did not discuss genetics. Your question makes no sense.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Does it? http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/01/police-routinely-sup...
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
"Man With ID," huh? More like "Illegal Immigrant With Fake ID." No wonder nobody knows him.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
The best way to increase ridership is to make buses significantly more expensive than they are, not less. That way the crazy, drug-addicted scum won't be able to afford a ticket, and then decent people can use them without being hassle

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