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Jun 5 ctmcmull commented on Supersize My Salary Now!.

Holy shit! You want $15/hour to serve fries and other shitty food to careless slobs? You're delusional.

May 16 ctmcmull commented on New Column!.

The NBA made the right decision: thank god we won't be saddled with their presence in the city any time soon. That being said, the NBA and the fans of NBA basketball can go fuck themselves.

Apr 29 ctmcmull commented on NBA Committee Rejects Hansen Bid to Purchase Sacramento Kings.

Yes, the NBA should go fuck itself, but no more so than it should have anyways. But Seattlites who supported the NBA thing should also go fuck themselves.

Apr 26 ctmcmull commented on Big Government Made That.

Oh, yeah, not to mention that, in 1945, all of our industrial rivals had been reduced to rubble -- of course they were going to need our help, financed by us to our tremendous advantage.

Apr 26 ctmcmull commented on I, Anonymous.

@23 ????

Apr 25 ctmcmull commented on I, Anonymous.

@10 and the rest: I don't see any evidence that the letter-writer is a woman. It could just as easily be a dude-friend who desperately wants to be her boyfriend, but she doesn't think of the letter writer 'in that way'
Yep. Been there.

#21 called it: the dreaded Friend Zone

Apr 25 ctmcmull commented on Big Government Made That.

Of course, having an energetic and regimented workforce accustomed to the misery of war and the recent hardships of the Great Depression, combined with cheap fuel, a countryside still full of resources, and an industrial sector reinvigorated by wartime production, the makings of an Economic Golden Age does seem at least like a plausible outcome.

None of those conditions still exist: a workforce expecting pampering and fully enthralled in narcissistic pursuits (gourmet-doughnuts and coffee, facebook, professional sports, 0%-down McMansions, etc.); oil - the master resource - sits around $95/bbl and ain't getting cheaper - so much so that we've decided it's OK to strip-mine half of Canada for low-grade tar sands; forests, minerals, the oceans, and groundwater either seriously depleted or otherwise compromised; a comatose Rust Belt that is pretty much certain to stay that way, a hollowed-out rail system replaced by a falling-apart highway system (itself an enormous maintenance liability) -- shit, we won't be going back to a golden age. All of these compounding conditions are made even more intractable by the parasitic Financial and Political Class, which has no interest in fixing problems that it happens to gain short- to medium-term benefits from.

Unfortunetly, and as much as we may dislike it, none of the conditions of reality require that every problem have a solution.

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