Comments on: McTARDED http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/ OPIATE OF THE ASSES Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ecks http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/comment-page-1/#comment-18624 Ecks Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:40:39 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2606#comment-18624 Let's assume that health care costs go up for young and old by 10% both. Or lets not. Because, y'know, young people tend not to stay sick after you treat them, the way old people do. Fix a young girl's heart condition, she's back to solid and cheap health care for the next 30 years. Fix an old codger's heart condition, you've just bought him a bit longer to have diabetes, arthritis, brittle bones and poorer coordination, prostate screens, blood pressure medication, and spots that probably aren't anything but should definitely be checked out just in case. So yeah, assume that costs go up by 10% for both groups, and now figure that keeping the old guys alive that much longer is going to make them much more than 10% more expensive. There's a reason it's called glibertarian. Let's assume that health care costs go up for young and old by 10% both. Or lets not. Because, y'know, young people tend not to stay sick after you treat them, the way old people do. Fix a young girl's heart condition, she's back to solid and cheap health care for the next 30 years. Fix an old codger's heart condition, you've just bought him a bit longer to have diabetes, arthritis, brittle bones and poorer coordination, prostate screens, blood pressure medication, and spots that probably aren't anything but should definitely be checked out just in case.

So yeah, assume that costs go up by 10% for both groups, and now figure that keeping the old guys alive that much longer is going to make them much more than 10% more expensive.

There's a reason it's called glibertarian.

]]> By: Paul http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/comment-page-1/#comment-18604 Paul Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:23:56 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2606#comment-18604 With luck, some day she will need to use the word 'burrow' in her blog one day. Chances are, she will spell it 'burro', because she doesn't know the difference between an ass and a hole in the ground. I love that line. I stole it from an old AP Style Manual via Roy Blount Jr. With luck, some day she will need to use the word 'burrow' in her blog one day. Chances are, she will spell it 'burro', because she doesn't know the difference between an ass and a hole in the ground.
I love that line. I stole it from an old AP Style Manual via Roy Blount Jr.

]]> By: SarahMC http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/comment-page-1/#comment-18580 SarahMC Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:52:11 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2606#comment-18580 It really pisses me off that she has a platform on NPR, too. It really pisses me off that she has a platform on NPR, too.

]]> By: Satchel http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/comment-page-1/#comment-18575 Satchel Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:20:19 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2606#comment-18575 She had a headdeskingly awful piece in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/books/review/McArdle-t.html She had a headdeskingly awful piece in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/books/review/McArdle-t.html

]]> By: Susan of Texas http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/comment-page-1/#comment-18574 Susan of Texas Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:53:56 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2606#comment-18574 McArdle is hysterical. One of my favorite posts of hers is <a href="http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/elizabeth_warren_and_the_terri.php" rel="nofollow">this one</a> (and <a href="http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/why_warrens_new_bankruptcy_stu.php" rel="nofollow">this one</a>), in which she mixes up number and percentage and ties herself into knots trying to avoid admitting she was wrong. McArdle is hysterical. One of my favorite posts of hers is this one (and this one), in which she mixes up number and percentage and ties herself into knots trying to avoid admitting she was wrong.

]]> By: Desargues http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/comment-page-1/#comment-18570 Desargues Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:21:44 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2606#comment-18570 Mystifyingly, she belongs to an ideological group whose flagship publication is called <i>Reason</i>,yet she displays little of it herself. Maybe they named it ironically, like postmodernists. Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch sure do look like they try to be achingly hip all the time. Mystifyingly, she belongs to an ideological group whose flagship publication is called Reason,yet she displays little of it herself. Maybe they named it ironically, like postmodernists. Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch sure do look like they try to be achingly hip all the time.

]]> By: displaced capital http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/comment-page-1/#comment-18569 displaced capital Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:18:26 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2606#comment-18569 Desargues: Whoops, you're right. I guess I can't be an editor on conservapedia. Desargues: Whoops, you're right. I guess I can't be an editor on conservapedia.

]]> By: jazzbumpa http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/comment-page-1/#comment-18568 jazzbumpa Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:17:01 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2606#comment-18568 <i>That reason, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that doughy libertarian shut-ins and ex-fratboy mortgage brokers think she is fuckable.</i> Ed - Your sardonic, retroflex comment nailed it. This is also why Sarah Palin was so popular among so many right-wing males. Unfortunately, I can't find any pictures of Megan scantily dressed, so I could give her the conserative cheesecake treatment. I did uncover this, though. http://firemeganmcardle.blogspot.com/ Haven't explored it yet, but if it lives up to its name it should her her the FJM treatment all the time. Fun! On a different subject - could you possibly post in a larger font. I'm already in bifocals . . . Cheers! That reason, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that doughy libertarian shut-ins and ex-fratboy mortgage brokers think she is fuckable.

Ed – Your sardonic, retroflex comment nailed it. This is also why Sarah Palin was so popular among so many right-wing males.

Unfortunately, I can't find any pictures of Megan scantily dressed, so I could give her the conserative cheesecake treatment.

I did uncover this, though.

http://firemeganmcardle.blogspot.com/

Haven't explored it yet, but if it lives up to its name it should her her the FJM treatment all the time. Fun!

On a different subject – could you possibly post in a larger font. I'm already in bifocals . . .

Cheers!

]]> By: Desargues http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/14/mctarded/comment-page-1/#comment-18567 Desargues Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:19:05 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2606#comment-18567 Displaced: Black holes suck in government dole. Taxpayer's dollars go in, but not a cent ever comes out. They do emit fatherless babies, though. Every right-thinking man knows that. Displaced: Black holes suck in government dole. Taxpayer's dollars go in, but not a cent ever comes out. They do emit fatherless babies, though. Every right-thinking man knows that.

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