An out of state student in the UNC system, the country's most cost efficient one, pays about $24K per year undergrad. The young people nowadays with their Rap music and video games and funny jazz cigarettes take about 5 years so that's $120K. The average college slackadasical graduate comes out the other side with $20k in credit card debt. So your friends are doing better than many.

But don't worry, they'll get divorced soon and if they have any brains at all they'll declare bankruptcy - which contrary to popular ignorance is not impossible.

Working class black people are all noble and wise, hardworking and proud. Their neighborhoods are old and leafy and the people who live there are just plain folks. In the real world though, they are poor, the house next door is abandoned and sometimes crackheads are there. The cops don't really give a shit, there aren't any close by local businesses, the biggest building in the area belongs to the DMV, and MLK Blvd is a dangerous place to be at night.

And the FSR-Karo, the Subaru 360, the NSU Prinz-III, the Maico 500, the Honda 606, the Mazda R360, the BMW Isetta, the Trabant, the Fiat 500, the Gogglemobile, the Zundapp Janus, the Heinkel Kabine, the BMW 600, the Diahatsu Hijet. See people have been making microcars for a long long long time. And when they're done they go into museums, if any of them are still left.

Down here in Raleigh, the SE corner of the city is being gentrified. The residents are rather happy with it because it means displacing the crackheads on Lenoir street. See this is reality, but thanks for pretending you know more about it than I do.

Branded drugs go for $1-$3 per pill more or less for most of the scrips people typically have on a long term basis. Generics through a mail order provider like Medco might cost a 10th of that. So maybe colleges should look into long term agreements with discount mail order providers like Medco instead of trying to fight The Man. Or, you could just determine it's a human right and jack up EVERYONE's tuition to pay for the rather pricey benefits of a few. What better way to inculcate the infuriating unfairness of PC Marxism but to force everyone to pay for the sexual behaviors of a few?

Or say, solar power or algae powered ethanol or growable replacement human organs, that would be a bad thing. Ok thanks for clearing that up.

By the by hippies, almost all flat screens come from Korea now because the gubmint determined that attracting that investment was valuable. This has resulted in 25-40% price reductions per year.

I am a sometimes Eclipse app hacker and all time Eclipse app user. Please God of Google don't do this.

Eclipse apps like to run in 1GB of RAM or better

Eclipse apps like to run in 2GHz CPU's or better

Phones have a critical problem with battery size

The fastest phone applicable processor out there today runs in the 625Mhz range. The biggest phone RAM pad out there today is 256MB with a mSD interface to another 20GB of slow SD addressable indirectly through a file system. The CPU winner is the HTC X7500 and it weighs in at 12.6oz. The RAM winner is the Seamless SXGEN (which clocks in at over 400grams total weight).

If Google is seriously talking about Eclipse apps then they're not really talking about phones, they're talking about palmtop computers, and such that already surpass the specs of all phones out there today.

Reform doesn't express any requirement to even wear a kippah so I'd be shocked if those Unitarians bothered. I can sort of understand the RCC's position filtered through the experience of Judaism. You give an inch they take a mile. There's no such thing as a formal or strict Judaism that admits woman on an egalitarian basis for the most part, in Reform. In Masorti or Conservative there is, more or less but for the most part once you bend in one area you have to bend in all of them and in short measure religion takes a back seat to the ASPCA, save Darfur, divorce workshops and the whole self help Oprah-fication of everything, to the detriment of the very religion that hosts it.

The good of the many outweigh the good of the few. Just because Ron Paul has a few sensible ideas (however ill intentioned his motives for them - as in ending the war because xenophobia is a good thing and we should end all foreign relations....) doesn't mean the rest of his kit bag of loony favorites isn't worth tossing over the gunwales. Because they are. After all, all sorts of tyrants have stumbled on a few good things every once in a while. Like the Autobahn (Hitler), Canned Food (Napolean). But we're not so dull (maybe some of you are) that we accept the whole package. Basically any candidate who proclaimed the end of the war and the end of weed prohibition would be in the same place - internet-wise. Whether that person was a lunatic, a fascist, a populist would make no difference.

The key point and one you should be wary of is that his GOOD ideas and there are one or two are today themselves so far out of the mainstream that only Ron Crackpot Paul could safely express them. The other candidates not so much because it would be the end of their candidacy. And given that it should be clear that this time round there will be NO end to the war and NO end to weed prohibition. Those two things are going to be in America for a long time.