Mr unz. I typically find common ground with your writings and other authors published here.

It happens at this very moment i am at a large annual conference for a notorious corporate software vendor rubbing elbows with clever folks from all over the world. So it for me is a topical issue.
I find the idea of auctioning in favor of deep pocketed tech giants an especially pernicious call for more crony capatalism than already exists.
I think all wealthy stockholders of public corporations should be expropriated of their shares. Let those be transferred to third world peasants who will be pleased to receive meager dividends of pennies on the dollar compared to present quarterly payouts.
Also i believe all of dc and most statehouses could be effectively outsourced via the web to governance call centers in third world countries.

Im a middle aged white southerner descended from slave owners. Ive never objected to eating aunt jemima pancakes and syrup out of packages with her likeness nor uncle bens rice. Why would i object to a unit of devaluated debt note that is now worth perhaps 1/500th its nominal value during mrs tubmans lifetime being festooned with her likeness? If she did what is attributed to her she deserves recognition. Why put such tools as us presidents on the monopoly money anyway? Harriet had far more integrity than recent incumbents ive no doubt.

“Should animals be given higher intelligence?”

But, you repeat yourself.

Wow there are more trolls posting comments here than you find in a week of inspecting under bridges. Funny thing that — some bridges tolls get paid, some trolls get paid without bridges.

Handy Snook.

Watching the CNN clip posted above as the gentleman gets into character when he thinks the tally light is about to go on… gee after he held two legless toddlers on his lap (viz Paul’s article), no wonder he was so blase about a bit of infanticide and could laugh at the knock-knock joke he was told before exiting the building….

You can fool some of the people all of the time. Mostly the fools.

Tell us more of how even military grade termites could level a steel and concrete skyscraper.

The FACE that will launch a thousand ships.