I vote for the monkey throwing darts. That's the kind of visceral things kids like and makes it a lot more fun and interesting than a bunch of boring numbers in a newspaper or web site.

There's also this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stock-p ... d495510614

I don't mean to come at you sideways. But when I say "removing 11 million people seems unworkable, cruel, and will cause all sorts of other bad consequences and violence," responding "yeah but the rule of law," is a bit weak. We're all breaking the law, daily. Law =/= morality n...

The point is, the electoral system was a hack for slavery and never was part of the original makeup. Elections were never supposed to be about the states. So don't be hypocritical just because you want your preferred political party to be in power. Scrapping it would be good for the Republican Party...

One could argue that #2 is our culture but #1 is undermining it. From that perspective, #1 could be preferable. "Rule of law" is a concept and it would be silly to assume that people don't apply their behaviorial/ideological biases to the application of it. To wit: http://s19.postimg.org/b...

Millions of people need to be deported because millions of people were allowed to illegally enter and stay in the country because of weak immigration policies. Correction: weak enforcement. I don't know why the Republicans can't ever seem to get their act together on it unless Democrats stonewall t...

You don't even need privatization. The research team—Gary Burtless of Brookings Institution and Anqi Chen, Wenliang Hou, Alicia Munnell and Anthony Webb of Boston College—assumed that up to 40% of trust fund assets were stashed in the stocks in a broad market index. They then compared the possible o...

This is the first persuasive argument I've heard for scrapping the electoral college. Although the Philadelphia framers did not anticipate the rise of a system of national presidential parties, the 12th Amendment—proposed in 1803 and ratified a year later— was framed with such a party system in mind...

Re deporting people by force. Are they intentionally breaking the law, or aren't they? Does that count for anything? If not, wow. What happens in Canada when they find someone illegally in the country? (I don't know, but I suspect they get deported.) The reality of other country's strict immigratio...

What is your opinion on the Patriot act, surveillance, the "war on terror," stop and frisk, and the idea of police forces trying deport 11 million people by force. I'm sure you didn't mean police -- police aren't legally allowed to deal with immigration issues. And ICE doesn't have the ma...

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MachineGhost wrote:Trifectas an exception but it is woefully statistically insignificant:

Is that pp or S&p?

Eh, PP doesn't have returns like that. Ever.

Truly, I've never read more deeply depressing doom porn than what gets posted to GranolaShotgun and StrongTowns. The pictures make it visceral.

Here's my SparkNotes: Democrats = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoticism Republicans = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism And the "right" in "right-wing" does mean right on the political spectrum because the author is a Canadian liberal that was trying to understand th...

Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? Discussions over whether the figure known as the “Historical Jesus” actually existed primarily reflect disagreements among atheists. Believers, who uphold the implausible and more easily-dismissed “Christ of Faith” (the divine Jesus who walked on w...

You guys seem to rebalance awfully frequently and not every 2-3 years as rebalancing bands dictate. You are letting your losers run and capping your winners. Maybe not frequently, but I did rebalance after a year and several months as Harry suggests an annual rebalance is ok. I'm low on bonds and n...

Did I miss the answer to my question somewhere in your "colorful" commentary? :D No, I don't have any specific place in mind yet. Just biases. Not a bias: Not red or black, ever again. I wonder if moda lives in #49? ;D I guess its no surprise why #1 in CA is the most expensive area. Could...

You guys seem to rebalance awfully frequently and not every 2-3 years as rebalancing bands dictate. You are letting your losers run and capping your winners.

The last 3 days are dust in the wind—just as a few bad days in 2013 were, or those 3 great days (whenever), or the years that the PP lagged the broad market, or when it outperformed it when needed most. All that is old news buried under a smooth flowing, longer-term trendline—but only if one does n...

If Obama, Warren, Hillary, or Bernie don't stand up and tell the protesters to knock it off, the Democrats are really going to suffer in the court of public opinion. They are making Trump a sympathetic figure. I have not heard any Dem advance this thought as of yet. War is the health of the state. ...

Trump's turning into a loser already.

My point is that if we're a country of laws, laws should matter. Comey knew what he was doing. It's against the law. How can anyone (even "us centrists/moderates/libertarians ... unbiased to either political ideology") think it's OK for him to get away with this? I'm sorry, but you're eit...

After having a grand old time making fun of Republicans for going whackadoodle bananas when Obama was elected president, it's awfully ironic to see Democrats now doing the same thing. I guess those tribalist impulses are stronger than they thought! I'm not sure he can help it any more than Reub cou...

Helvering v. Davis (1937): Social Security ""contributions" are in fact taxes. Fleming v. Nestor (1967): "To engraft upon the Social Security system a concept of "accrued property rights" would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to ever changing co...

Then 37 it is?

Why in the world would you think he has any intention to fix anything? He's an outsider not a careerist politician vested in the status quo. Isn't it abundantly clear that he cares about nothing except himself and is nothing but a con-man? You mean, like careerist politicians? You have to use a jud...