The word “malkin” evolved into “merkin,” which as we all know denotes a female pubic wig.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin

Thus I giggle at everything that comes from Malkin’s malformed brain. ^_^

Besides, “cockstar, rockstar” rhymes, so I have real no problem with it, poetically speaking.

Why do you think I should pay for insuring someone else’s child?

Billy Bats, if you’re paying insurance premiums, you are already paying to insure someone else’s child.

Try to keep up.

We’re talking about what, depression, right? Lighten up a little (which I say somewhat kiddingly as I know all too well that the inability to do so is the dominant symptom). Greater public understanding of the condition=good. Kid-glove treatment=bad, with a 70% chance of counterproductivity.

I mean, yeah, it’s a black hole of nameless pain, but c’mon, step back from it a second. You make a teensy, inconsequential mistake and think to yourself, “this proves that I’m worthless and should die unmourned.” Standard non-”ha ha” caveat, that shit’s pretty funny.

And I know, what’d the Frosts do either – but now we have one more (relatively) uninvolved person who’s catching flak for this. And what’s more, it enables Michelle to shriek about how awful S!N was for posting that. I don’t really see the win, here.

I hate it when you’re trying to have a conversation with America and America is nodding off on the socialism and falls face-first into the soup.

Shorter wingnuts: We’d rather pay thousands of dollars for a service that we actually hope we never have to use, then six bucks for a service that we actually hope we never have to use.

Because everybody else will help pay for you.

Selfish prick.

(btw, 999 is the British version of 911)

And seriously, don’t tempt them with the privatizing fire protection stuff. The wingnut in my life is a big advocate of that. Doesn’t see a problem with letting the kiddies burn if mom and dad are too “irresponsible” to buy fire protection. Do I need to tell you he’s a devout Christian?

Naomi Klein, in her “Disaster Capitalism: The New Economy of Catastrophe” (Harper’s, October 2007), argues that in the area of disaster relief, we (the United States and its contractors) have already moved in that direction.

…publicly run police and fire departments. I say we privatize those! That way, if your house is on fire, the local fire suppression company can do what any good health insurance rep would do; ask you to wait a bit to see if it goes out on its own, before they’ll authorize a visit by a fire truck. They’d also ask that you exhaust all fire extinguishers you have in your house first, and see if there is still a fire problem.

While those are all perfectly sound market-based responses to a fire-emergency financial transaction, I should hope that they’d carry things to their logical conclusion and do what privately-owned fire companies used to do in ancient Rome: negotiate their fee for putting out the fire with the homeowner while the homeowner’s house is burning down.

We need an economic system based entirely on good, old-fashioned values of extortion.

wow

Since I make about five times what you do, I’m fairly certain that my share of taxes pays for a lot more road. So stay off it and you can not pay for my kids’ health care.