Capitalism has lifted more people out of extreme poverty than any other system you can name.  Some might argue that technology has helped in this, but technology wouldn't have happened without the capitalism.  If there is no incentive to innovate, what's the point of innovation?

So the measure is how many mice we're willing to kill?  Could they have found something other than a pest to determine how 'evil' we might be?  People are motivated to kill mice all the time.  My supermarket sells mice killing tools.  How about are we willing to kill the human spirit for the sake of the 'collective'?  ...more

So freezing temperatures in May is indicative of global warming?  Is there anything that ISN'T indicative of global warming?

<<And what if most companies treat people like dirt, like they now do?>>   Why you vote for liberal democrats and attempt to turn the USA into socialist utopia.

I think the liberals have found their perfect paradigm: Demonize, villify, tear down.  Sadly it also applies to the dead.   At some point, anyone with even a hint of conservative politics in them will be ostracized, banished, perhaps even imprisoned.  Its working well so far for the 'tolerant party.'

And who's made you the arbiter of what's fair?

They're bottle feeding a grown male lion.  Perhaps they've de-fanged, de-clawed these animals?

It's like the flood of city folk moving to the country, tearing down the woods to build their homes -- soon the country they moved to be in is just another city...and soon, the liberal minded democrat New Yorkers will bring their left wing high-tax nanny state politics to Florida and...good by no-state-income tax in Fl...more

It seems like Lollapalooza used to be more cutting edge and feature more 'underground headliners' if there can be such a thing.  Lots of these names seem pretty mainstream, and with acts like Nine Inch Nails, The Cure (whom I love) and New Order, kind of yesterday's papers...