Comments on: I hope they invent the time machine soon.

By: Kevin's Perspective

Kevin's Perspective — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:27:59 +0000

… not funny

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:50:08 +0000

Nice post – depression pictures ..Keep Posting– Tip: Keep your post active- commenting helps it – Ron depression pictures

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:19:25 +0000

This wasn’t funny. Just because you make someone in a picture say something with a word bubble doesn’t make it funny. Even if you have a good point, you’re not expressing it comically. Just kind of a blunt, unfunny way that is just…aggh…

By: Bronze Moon

Bronze Moon — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:00:52 +0000

Yeah, well that was really enthusiastic. *sarcasm*

By: Dea

Dea — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:32:38 +0000

I know I don’t HAVE to – I wanted to (rather have local, quite honestly – good for the health and all that). I’m bummed….it’s cheaper to go to the (few) farm stands and farmers’ markets here….which is ok….the stands in the 2 ‘burbs near me aren’t far, and are fairly reasonably priced.

By: Ignatz

Ignatz — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:29:21 +0000

Way to not recognize sarcasm, either. I guess I was being a little too subtle.

By: Exodiom

Exodiom — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:36:56 +0000

It’s a genuine photograph, genius. There was a set taken by Dorothea Lange. You’ve probably seen the chosen photograph before.

By: Exodiom

Exodiom — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:35:18 +0000

Wooh, Migrant Mother. She’d be exploited just as she was back then, actually.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:07:57 +0000

Whistles theme tune, then crushes keithybabes with a giant cardboard cutout foot.

By: cheap holidays to Egypt

cheap holidays to Egypt — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:30:49 +0000

I think if anything, we would be much better off to simply “help the impoverished”, and then we can all move up together. So.. if anything, I would say the way its done is a down side.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:42:35 +0000

Do you people EVER read previous comments??

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:41:12 +0000

Obviously, you’re a moron.

By: crick

crick — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:30:11 +0000

This photo was taken by Dorothea Lange.

By: charro

charro — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:25:00 +0000

*sigh* The closest one of those is up in Racine or something. But I doubt they are as good as Jack in the Box.

By: charro

charro — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:24:06 +0000

Why do you hate me Rando!? *sobs*

By: dataphreak

dataphreak — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:41:16 +0000

Actually, i vote conditions worse now. Try living out of a tent in L.A. (just don’t eat any sunflower seeds, or 15 cops will put you in the hospital, and no, you won’t be in the mental ward. It’ll be the ER.)

By: justacarolinian

justacarolinian — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:18:26 +0000

Hardee’s has them now.

By: justacarolinian

justacarolinian — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:17:30 +0000

Now if you can make real chow chow, I need your address, or actually, you need mine. The crap they sell in stores is just relish. My mother was Cherokee, and I haven’t had the real stuff since she died. I can’t eat it as hot as she did, but love it anyways. The jars she made for herself couldn’t be stirred with a wooden spoon. Just saying.

By: Ignatz

Ignatz — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:47:24 +0000

It’s obviously a photoshop job.

By: randman83

randman83 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:42:59 +0000

While I agree with the curiosity of scientists, people will still have little motivation to implement these technologies, contrary to the original post, if they “learn not to want.” Without a desire to progress or achieve, people will be reluctant or unwilling to fund the research. The scientist, due to his innate curiosity, will always explore and learn, because he has a desire to do so. Consequently, the people who are curious and ambitious are the ones who find meaning in life, while the “want-nots” find little meaning in life, if they have in fact learned not to want.

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:03:48 +0000

Yes, those are the ones that, to coin a phrase, “U R doin it rite.”

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:02:33 +0000

Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger.

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:00:18 +0000

So, is it NOT true of the badgers?

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:59:41 +0000

No, I’m saying they should help the poor BETTER. In ways that don’t actually cripple them on the downside.

You don’t FEED people, you help them grow their own food.

You don’t GIVE things away, you help build local infrastructure and manufacturing industry so that they can make their OWN things.

You don’t try to ship aid to a nation run by a kleptocrat, and HOPE that they don’t intercept and steal the aid. You get a few other countries together, blow the kleptocrat to hell and gone, and then make sure the food gets in. (After a few ‘disproportionate responses,’ they should get the idea that it’s a bad idea to try to stop the aid convoys.)

Also? That Gordian knot thing? The answer is “use a sword.” Just in case anybody forgot.

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:54:33 +0000

Actually, with the LRA, the problem would seem to be RELIGION. Personally, I have no problem doing away with that, either.

Of course, with other conflicts, say. Ethiopia in the 80’s, the problem is a Glorious Socialist Leader who wants to keep all the goodies for himself and his army.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:33:56 +0000

Are you serious???

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:56:11 +0000

Uh, there’s a big difference between “economic” conditions and “living” conditions.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:54:27 +0000

I split a full share between 3 people and it comes out to $30 a week for us.

@Dea – I was in no way suggesting that you should/must sign up for any CSAs, merely that there are numerous ones available in the Chicago area, and have been for several years.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:45:15 +0000

That is pricy — the one I’m looking at for next year is only $15 a week for a half share (which should be plenty for us…).

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:43:44 +0000

Maybe you’re looking in the wrong place because I know that Angelic Organics and at least two other CSAs have been delivering to the city (all farms within a 100 mile radius of city center) for almost 5 years.

By: Dea

Dea — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:43:40 +0000

Riiiight – ok, yeah – the 2 CSA’s that deliver to my area? Mmmhhhmmmmm….I’m sorry, but they are EXTREMELY cost prohibitive! I wouldn’t care about picking up, but no one offers one local pick up point, only delivery. And I’m not paying $200 a month for produce…hell, for that much, I should just convert my entire yard to growing produce and sell it….

By: Dea

Dea — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:37:29 +0000

Need to find a good deal on a pressure cooker so I’m not just limited to my jams and pickles! LOL! I love canning…

I’m also starting an indoor garden for the winter….there’s also frame farming people can do in winter in the north – it’s WILD the food you can grow beneath the snow…

By: Dea

Dea — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:35:33 +0000

Some sand isn’t made of crustaceans???

By: Dea

Dea — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:34:16 +0000

Apparently I need to look again, as there was no one as of a year ago….doh! LOL! I like farmers’ markets and all, but wth, they truck it all in from Michigan – not exactly “cutting down” on the whole gas/exhaust thing….

By: maddok

maddok — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:00:13 +0000

I.e. politicians.

By: wallFly

wallFly — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:51:29 +0000

**organic not orfanic…

By: wallFly

wallFly — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:50:08 +0000

i was completely unaware of that, charro

at the very least, everything is coated and inundated with wee microbes, which are alive – so in that sense.. is not everything orfanic then?

By: mmm,mmm,mmm

mmm,mmm,mmm — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:23:12 +0000

People with lots of money put their money in the bank, done.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:15:08 +0000

Shopping at farmers markets, of course.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:14:21 +0000

“Note that the migrant workers pictured are not on the brink of starvation, however.”

And you know this how?

By: Ignatz

Ignatz — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:58:22 +0000

Milton Friedman would, as would Grover Norquist. But neither one of those individuals could be classified as ’sane’.

Right now, the government is redistributing my wealth – into the pockets of private military contractors, insurance CEOs, Wall Street hedge fund managers, and so forth. Why do they deserve my money?

By: TheOne

TheOne — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:32:26 +0000

I’m glad my kids school forced them to “volunteer” at the food bank one day. They both came home incredulous that the people wanting free stuff “were dressed better than we are!”. (VNV’s head explodes!)

By: TheOne

TheOne — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:28:10 +0000

There’s an open room next to mine here at the “Nervous Hospital”- you’d fit right in, Comrade Allie!

By: Dhoti

Dhoti — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:56:12 +0000

Yes, that’s the idea. (Look up “One China Policy” — Nixon, specifically.)

By: ...

... — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:40:41 +0000

I said “Everyone”. Not “Everybody”.

By: justme

justme — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:17:11 +0000

you underestimate the curiosity of scientists. I honestly think if well funded and free in ther decisions concerning the research scientists will work eagerly under pretty much any system.

(I am NOT saying I want communism)

By: Palema

Palema — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:42:31 +0000

Is that photo really from the Depression era? The young woman in the rocking chair seems to have 70s hair (uses conditioner, has a hair band) and clothes including what look sort of like bell bottom jeans to me. Is this a still from a movie?

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:14:18 +0000

From the Wikipedia article on “minimum wage history” – “In the United States, statutory minimum wages were first introduced nationally in 1938.”

By: Scythelord

Scythelord — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:05:44 +0000

No. No sane person ever says that jobs created by the government = socialism. You’re reaching. Wealth redistribution and full government control is.

By: Scythelord

Scythelord — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:35:55 +0000

You act as though it is really simple to do such a thing. You are horrifically mistaken.