On hearing the news, all 6 accused immediately fell to the floor clutching their ankles or knees, and were stretchered away.

“The painful decisions are shifted from heartless capitalists to government managers, and those decisions remain painful.”

Sounds great. But lord help you if those tests reveal something wrong.

“we pay about two-and-a-half times more per citizen”

“security was unduly lax at the game”

“But, you know a lot of health problems aren’t a person’s fault. Like cancer. Or maybe you’re genetically pre-disposed to diabetes. Or you get into a car accident. Or someone stabs you. The list goes on.”

Socialized health care is such a great thing that those from the place where it’s done with the most zeal, the Canadian province of Quebec, will drive to Burlington, VT, a provincial backwater of less than 45,000, for basic tests and treatments that would take them months to obtain for “free” back home. It’s always…

“Can’t be worse than the last nearly 25 seasons without a cup” [Groucho Marx eyebrow raise and cigar waggle]

Not necessarily a barrier, but doesn’t help either. I think this is an underplayed part of the conversation though. If house prices revert to even 2008 (ie, still overvalued) prices, what happens to pro sports attendance all over southern Ontario?

Yeah, “own”. The wife’s been on my case for years, but my retort is how do you really “own” something that you could lose if you miss 3 consecutive payments?

“Heresy!” I’ve had actual, heated, voices-raised arguments with otherwise sane people when suggesting that maybe owning a house isn’t the be-all-and-end-all of life.

Also Canadians are some of the world’s most indebted consumers (total mortgage debt is greater than national GDP). All everyone talks about is their houses and backsplashes and stuff that is soon to be worth a lot less than they paid for it. Most people in Canada are completely strapped, and this could be a leading…

there’s no reason why people shouldN’T simply carry on as normal

That sounds more sane than simply hoping to no longer hear ‘the rumblings of attacks’. Which is crazier - carrying on as normal, or hoping it all just goes away without bothering to question or understand why it’s happening in the first place? If, as with most Euroelite, you’re simply saying people need to get used to…

Questioning something is never reactionary. The real reactionaries are those who rationalize why normal public life, of the sort led for decades or longer in the world’s most advanced societies, needs to be stopped.

In the name of ‘diversity’, public life in the West gets a little more shrivelled each day. The rationalizations are easy to spot.

Cox should reunite with his former teammate in Miami, Aubrey Beavers. They really were a great tandem - Cox could stuff the gap, while Beavers would swallow up the play.

Pete Seeger didn’t get around to criticizing Stalin until 2007. At that rate, Sean Penn will start wondering about Chavez sometime in the 2060s.

“Don’t stand so close to me”

The problem is the damage will already have been done, and bad QBs have little trade value. Trading up is a bad idea because it pre-supposes the player you’re acquiring can’t miss. But if the draft in any sport has taught anyone anything, it’s that there’s a lot of randomness to it. Picks are valuable, and assuming…