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1. about 11 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   I would have thought that the bloodsuckers on the economy were the billionaires—-but then I also follow the changes in the Gini coefficient as a measure of what’s weighing down national economies.

2. about 13 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Lampreys???

3. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Thanks for that link.

4. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   It looks to me as if we “free” members are about to lose our accounts here on Gocomics.

5. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   Great rants, dotbup. I’m with you all the way. My father was a young just-getting-started stockbroker in 1929. He told me a lot of what was happening then and the why of it. Needless to say, he left that career and went for something in which he could make what he hoped would be a positive contribution to society.

6. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   I’ve been saying that also for the past few months, but the real worry I have is that major hostilities will break out, probably starting in the Middle East. Maybe sort of a rerun of the 1930’s.

7. 4 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Too often people fail to consider the ambiguities that adhere to many situations, that there may well be positive points and negative points to any position. The Jewish terrorists of the post-WW2 time were just as reprehensible as the Hamas terrorists of today, butt nonetheless not all Jews or Palestinians should be considered in that grouping. Many years ago, when I was in grad school, we had a visiting professor whose seminar I took. At the end he invited us all over for dinner at his place. He was a member of a kibbutz and of course had fought in the army. This was 1968 and in the discussions we students were all voicing our support for Israel, but he said " you do not know my people. We must solve our relationship with the Arabs to ever live in peace." He was clearly afraid that the “Never forget” would come back on them and that they might become as oppressive to Arabs as others had been toward Jews.

8. 4 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Some went there and bought land from Palestinians. That is a legitimate thing to do. The problem arose when the West decided to salve their guilt for the Holocaust by supporting the formation of the state of Israel without taking into consideration of the Palestinians living there. FWIW I hold NO brief for the Netanyahu government, but neither do I hold any brief for Hamas. Neither of these groups supports a two-state solution, but they do not speak for either all Jews or all Palestinians.

9. 5 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   No, I was actually thinking of the Israeli/Palestinian problem in which both think they have a valid demands, but that their demands exclude the possibility of accommodating other group’s demands. So what is justice in this case? FWIW I will say that my thoughts on this kind of question are influenced by things like Haidt’s moral foundation ideas and Rawls’ justice as fairness ideas.

10. 5 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    Rather where B was bought out by A but did not realize that this would result in a loss of political rights for B’s when A’s outnumbered B’s. This is, of course, also ignoring the interference of international players in these events. There is ambiguity here in that both A’s and B’s are ending up not living in peace.