nuGawker-ish. Among other things, we’re still missing the obsession with Arianna Huffington and this thing:

Ha, you’re right! Missed the previous one.

We got a Noonan rant from HamNo.

Yeah, because bankruptcy is such a fun, easy thing to do.

Eh, bankruptcy isn’t one of those things that’s easy to do or weather. Not if you have long-term goals (like home ownership), anyway. Not sure that there’d be a ton of people taking that option.

Or we could just make state colleges free like a lot of other sensible nations. You still want to go to an expensive private school, you do you boo. It works fine for k-12, why not for higher education?

And no more of this bankruptcy-doesn’t-stop-student-loans bullshit either. Holy fucking Christ, that’s monstrous nonsense.

I really want dems to run for congress + president and have their first priority to make a federal law that you can write off student loans after 15 years. It’d be a start.

And god forbid we have clean air and water.

So in 2009 when I got laid off, had no money, lost health insurance and was ready to declare bankruptcy I still had to pay Sallie Mae even after they got bailed out with my tax dollars for causing the shitstorm that led to me getting laid off in the first place.

But god forbid we have affordable healthcare.

1,470 professional economists

Yeah but have any of these eggheads managed to bankrupt a casino?

This is interesting from a historical standpoint, because it shows the malleability of political parties. To expand on that, prior to the Civil War, Democrats were mostly conservatives and Republicans were, by 19th century standards at least, more liberal. During Reconstruction, to avoid the taint of a defeated…

Of course there were GOP trust busters. As for this:

This is why I always ask libertarians if they like dealing with their cell phone carriers. If the answer is no (which is always fucking is) I then have to ask them THEN WHY THE FUCK DO YOU THINK LIBERTARIANISM IS FUCKING AWESOME? Do people really want to eat MORE shit from companies than they already have to eat?

It’s all started to go down the crapper, because our courts say corporations are people, campaign contribution limits are unconstitutional, and money is speech. Throw enough money at an election, and it’s easy to swing the vote. Voters are low-information. A few deftly-placed ads run at the last minute is usually…

All true, and airlines are just one of the most extreme and awful examples. The truth is that this kind of concentration has happened in loads of other industries over the last few decades. It’s why your ISP sucks and your mobile provider sucks and your health insurance sucks and...I could go on.