Has anyone taken a macroeconomics class here? Supply and demand will take care of this problem without your concern for cocoa. It doesn't require you "figuring out how to incentivize farmers appropriately" either. As prices rise more people will produce cocoa. Problem solved.

@ImperfectLink:

@OMG!Zkdog!: And then Milton Friedman said:

@minjin: I like what Hitchen's said about that: "it's the joke that stupid people laugh at."

@hostile-17: I'm still waiting for bird flu, killer bees, and Y2K.

@soldstatic: the phone sucks. lighten up.

@beanperry: I agree.

@clever epithet: Haha. Yeah, because if you take the most extreme example, misconstrue it as it being essential in order to create a strawman argument, which you can then refute, you've clearly proven my "socio-political philosophy" is a joke. My world is shattered. :,(

As a libertarian, I find this to be a fascinating example of how a fire department would work under a 100% libertarian government. I'm not saying what happened to the Cranick's was a good thing — It was horribly petty to let their house burn — but it was fascinating nonetheless.

@ezrashapiro: Did you mean Skokie?

Best ad for a Zippo, ever.

it's a alliance born out of the Ibooks pricing battle, I sense. fun fun.

@talkingstove: Since they own YouTube, Google can sue for the second person.

Umm... Isn't Google Me awfully close to Mobile Me? I mean Apple has sued for far smaller things.

Something is distracting me from looking at the TV, but I can't figure out what that is exactly. Hmm...

@sugardeath: but, alas, la tradition is dead.

I believe capital punishment is technically still legal in Russia, but it does have a moratorium on it (I know that the article said "enforced", btw).

What about the top of the can? Isn't that metal? Doesn't having metal in, near, or around my mouth add a metallic taste to my drink? Come to think of it, I don't make the same "metallic" complaint about Guinness from a can, because I immediately pour it into a glass. But PBR from a can tastes like metallic badness.

Is that Ramune on the far right in the middle? I love that marble seal.

Yeah, Xbox 360 controller is sooo much better! The triggers on the PS3 controller feel mushy, and the sticks are uncomfortably rounded at the top and are too close together. It also feel uncomfortable to hold and not very ergonomic, in my opinion.