I'm convinced that most so-called libertarians are just people who need an excuse to be rude.

do you think she knew that, though? Seriously? I'm not sure how she escaped from the mental hospital on that particular day, but I can almost say with certainty she did not know that cafe means coffee en francais.

here's the extent of notes I've ever left with a restaurant bill: excellent meal, thank you! That's it, end of story. Life advice? Yeah, no.

seriously, I have to have this omelette now. Maybe tomorrow morning when we're buried under 100 feet or so of snow, I will make one!

I think your criteria for people in poverty you will feel sympathy for is far too narrow. There are plenty of circumstances under which people older than their 20's can end up in poverty through no fault of their own. My brother, for example, is in his late thirties and was doing fine until he went through a terrible…

I don't know, that sounds like saying you're just not willing to be sympathetic to poor people. Sure, poor people in the US may be better off than poor people in China, but what comfort does that offer them? Fox News did this ridiculous segment on how the poor in America are really just a bunch of crybabies. They…

because everything you've posted with regards to your beliefs on the minimum wage have been words directy from the page of Ayn Rand novels. But interesting that you brought up anarchism, as if it's this perfect system that would just fix everything. You do realize we have a lot of crazy people with a lot of guns in…

what does any of that have to do with people who deserve to be paid more than $9 an hour for making burgers?

You're a liar. Nearly everything you've posted has been directly lifted from Ayn Rand.

you talk like someone who has never fallen on hard times. Just like Fox News cooking up an outrage story on how these poor people aren't really that poor because they have refrigerators. How much unused stuff a person has is totally irrelevant to the fact that if they're working, they deserve at least a basic standard…

I'm torn on this. In an ideal world, I think it's fair that the CEO should make more than the janitor, but 300 times more? But I'd like it if we could get there organically, rather than through legislation. The other problem with trying achieve that kind of parity through legislation is that many of those in the C…

the ethical argument you've made should be enough, but even if people don't understand this they should understand that it's just not good economics to have a system where you have an entire class of people that can't even afford to feed themselves, but are somehow still expected to be the consumers that keep the…

did you not read article above that explained in detail how this could actually work?

Exactly this. It's not just minimum wage earners that deserve a raise.

I think both you and the fast food workers deserve a raise. $15 an hour doesn't sound like a fair wage for someone with post-secondary education. I think that show badly skewed America's concepts of wage and value are. How can the same people who tell me that Mitt Romney deserves to make $100 million a year for moving…

I think by economics major he/she means 'I read Machiavelli once' (but Atlas Shrugged more than once)

oh, I get it now. You recently read Atlas Shrugged. Yeah, I read that in high school. It was interesting, but then I learned a bit about economics.

I've actually heard that about Canberra, and in all fairness I've never been there. But I will continue to make fun of it.

point taken. If you start a GoFundMe, I will contribute, however.

do me a favor: go to Italy, travel all over the country eating pizza. Tell me if you see a pizza with chicken on it. I'll wait here. No, but seriously, I fully admit it may taste good, it's just wrong, and I'm a dickhead when it comes to food. Sorry. (Not really)