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More than anyone could demand to know, Jules. But I suppose as you said, you brought it up. This brings that conversation back to square one; lots of people do what Jules does. They work hard and make difficult decisions, they employ hundreds, some thousands of people. They are a much-needed part of our economy. This does not mean to me that corporations should all have their current tax breaks. Suggesting an end to any of those tax breaks is not a call to "punish job creators" (as we've discussed customers are as much job creators as anything else). My minimal economic knowledge woul

The government is a job creator. When Obama signed the stimulus bill in 2009 it allocated a large amount of money to "shovel ready" projects in our 50 states. As it happens, my home state of CO had it's proverbial shit together with plans drawn up, and budgets sorted out for highway improvements, and light rail expansion. Those funds put a ton of Coloradans to work. There jobs did not exist before and in a few years I will be able to take the train to the airport. In a few months there will be a nicer on-ramp from Santa Fe onto I-25. Long live Karl Marx.

Now I'm reading this in preparation for my journey to Argentina/ Uruguay next month.

Class conflict on the VC.

Gogo's right, you don't need to be 100% forthcoming with personal details on a forum. I think people got a bit riled because it's a game of: Hey I take this personally, I'm a job creator. Oh yeah, what do you do? I don't want to talk about it. It's this weird insistence on one hand that economic policies are personally essential for people in a line of work, but they are some how ashamed of their tax rate, their under-taxed investments, or their income bracket. There is a tendency for the business class of this country to bark loudly about policies that favor them personally, but then th

Ah, the secretive pride of an outspoken 'job creator'.

Hiring someone is not the same as creating a job.

Then cut every public job and see what is left of our economy. I wouldn't have a job. The government hires where needed because you need a person to pave a highway, an elementary school teacher to teach some kids and a firefighter to put a fire out. If you disagree with that than mayhaps you'd be happier in a less socialist country.

Yeah, some of the 33 1/3 books try a little too hard. I like to read some good journalism about the process, with some criticism as to why the album was important in its time. I don't need Colin Meloy trying his hand at narrative writing based on the Replacements, or some stuffy critic using OK Computer to examine what a compact disc is from a theoretical standpoint.

I just finished this. It was a dystopian satire about a future English society that was formed by the paranoid writings of a schizophrenic cabbie, The cabbie made a 'holy book' full of driving routes, racism, and misogyny that he buried in his ex-wife's backyard in hopes that is son would find it and learn the knowledge. Instead a post-apocalyptic chiefdom of English folks found it and organized themselves according to its principles. Like the other Self book I found it acidic, cynical, occasionally funny, and the absurdity of its satire was so well-thought I often forgot is was satire, i

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Wow, that video! At Least That's What You Said made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I hope they do that one at Red Rocks.

Como siempre!

I don't know what we can do for Syria. I think the Libya engagement showed a more calculated restraing for an American military operation. Nonetheless it still killed innocents. While it did help the people we meant to help, recent Libyan history has followed the classic revolution timeline of overthrowing a dictator and then instating another violent, unstable regime. Wars don't solve problems they just grind peoples bodies up. There has not been an ethically justifiable American war in over half a century. Well fed American citizens sit back from where the ground doesn't shake and tra

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I've got the source: http://www.foxnews.com/ You can find some misleading things over there. You don't need Rev Jackson to tell you when something is ridiculous.

They should have stuck to Deeper Down when they knew how to play it. Now that they haven't done it for a year or two it would take weeks of practice.

Jules, you're glib, man.

I think the "substance" of Lady Gaga is one of the most over-exaggerated takes on an artist in the pop media right now. I think Justin Bieber is just as interesting as Lady Gaga (which is to say only kinda) and someone like Justin Timberlake is much more interesting. Homogenized dance pop with weird costumes...... meh.

KevinG damages Jules liquidity by taxing his investments. Jules wouldn't have given me a job anyway. The net effect on the debt ceiling was a small positive. All on viachicago.

They grabbed a weak analogy and tried to run with it. He said ATM machines where he could have said "self check at the grocery store." However you cut it, businesses are cutting costs by automating, which is good for business and bad for jobs. The posted tweet (ugh) that asks how could something be good for business but bad for jobs, is a clear example of American citizens having no nuance in their economic understanding. Obama made a smart point, the right just magnified its weakest example.

I'm going on Dr. Dog night. Denver food: Fancy Mexican/fusion: El Tamayo, Zengo Vegetarian: Watercourse, City O' City Sushi: Izakaya Den, Go Fish Italian: Patsy's, Osteria Marco Fancy fast: Larkburger Indian: Little India

I think it's a great live album. As would be expected with a productive, forward-leaning band, it has an element of obsolete a few years later.... still enjoyable, but I wonder how a classy live recording with a set featuring the last few albums highlights would sound. We could play this game every five years.

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Number 9 dreams is quite a bit different than all of his stuff, I liked it quite a bit, but it feels like an earlier work compared to where he went afterwards. Cloud Atlas blew my mind. I'd say Thousand Autumns is in my top ten novels I've read list. I can't wait to see what he does next.