So, Duck Dynasty is the most watched cable TV show ever...

When do the shareholders sue A&E for neglecting their fiduciary duties by acting in a manner that caused the end of that (assuming very profitable) show b/c the rest of the Robertsons aren't going to keep doing the show w/o Phil?

... Lets say the earth totally stops getting warmer i.e. over the next 10 years it does not get any warmer.  Where will the political will to continue defending global warming (as you know they will) come from? ... How many legislators care about what their constitutents want? Global Warming ended ...

For men with wavy / curly hair (like myself), shaving can give the facial hair follicles a point, which better enables them to grow back into the skin. I have a beard because I hate those ingrown whiskers. Your beard is damn itchy for a few possible reasons.  1) You likely have hair trapped under th...

This probably NSFW blog post entirely changed my view on early humans: http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2011/03/run-and-youll-only-die-tired-evidence.html Early hominids that existed 2M+ years ago may have been in the middle of the food chain.  But, by the time you get humans, whether Cro-Magnon or ...

Equality of opportunity is, like "work according to ability, reward according to needs", a misplaced ideal that can lead to many varied instances of evil. For example, if I were carving a new wooden duck decoy, I would not give my toddler a block of wood and the same sharp knives and chise...

I'd support armed intervention in Syria if the USA FedGov did something sensible with our expenditure of the national treasure - like placing the Syrians on reservations and opening the lands of the new Syria Territory to homesteaders. ;D That's funny. Isn't that what happened in Israel in the late...

I'd support armed intervention in Syria if the USA FedGov did something sensible with our expenditure of the national treasure - like placing the Syrians on reservations and opening the lands of the new Syria Territory to homesteaders.

5th economic condition: no economy.  Invest in guns to protect yet gold 6th economic condition: post monetary society (hyper prosperity or singularity)  Invest in social capital / "wuffie" / Internet memes http://i.qkme.me/3r2n82.jpg I don't know if no economy is possible since the econom...

Since the asset classes in the PP were picked to handle 4 different economic scenarios (prosperity=stocks, inflation=long term treasury bonds, deflation=gold, and recession=cash), I've been trying to think of any other possible scenarios that might need covered in a 5x20.  The only thing I've been a...

The value of this real estate is not the square footage, but a very important intangible amenity. Related: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-30/money-laundering-driven-real-estate-boom-ending So, let's say you are a wealthy foreigner with some questionably acquired money in a country where it ma...

If you want to get banned here, you need to either be a spammer or repeatedly accuse the site owners of being lying opportunistic thieves with a preference for stealing from widows. Over the last several years those are the only things that have gotten anyone here banned. I guess it's just one of t...

Since this thread has turned into a discussion about welfare, let me share a story. I have a co-worker (who is white, by the way) who hails from a poor family and is one of five children. Of them, he’s the only one who has a real job, while the others are all on various forms of welfare. It’s not l...

Big Daddy government has screwed-up the incentives for women to try make life work with a husband.  Why does the baby daddy need to stick around if the government can provide food, shelter, health care, etc.?  The increase in minority criminality happens because children raised without fathers tend...

Big Daddy government has screwed-up the incentives for women to try make life work with a husband.  Why does the baby daddy need to stick around if the government can provide food, shelter, health care, etc.?  The increase in minority criminality happens because children raised without fathers tend ...

A libertarian monarchy wouldn't seem too problematic; it's just advocacy for limited government, with the limited government being a monarchy rather than a democracy, right? Anarcho-monarchy seems more interesting in its philosophical construction given that its constituent words are mutually exclu...

Which should one choose for Imperialist? Probably Neo-Con, Neo-Lib, or Far Right. Far left works too. I should have added Stalin as an example. I'm not so sure.  The Soviets tended to consider themselves anti-imperialist, IIRC, and thought that they will liberating people and spreading the "wo...

Which should one choose for Imperialist?

Long-time lurker, first-time poster here... I wonder what would happen if you re-did this with some of those 3x ETFs* (stocks: SPXL; cash: SHY; gold: UGLD; long-term treasuries: LBND) with a monthly re-balancing based on the past 3 months of performance in an attempt to limit exposure to the large d...