I demand - DEMAND, do you hear? - that you stop taking it so easy on that POS.

Oh - yeah; well, I suppose there are some things you just can't say even on the internet.

Carry on, please.

BTW - I suspect many of us will delight in seeing one or both the Castro twins dismantle Rubio in the near future. So far as I'm concerned, Joaquin has 'president' stamped all over him.

And Piketty! How could I have left him off my list?

I've read reviews and seen interviews about 'Capital' but won't be able to afford it until and unless a copy somewhere winds up on eBay. But I imagine that's the kind of book most people who'd buy it would want to hang onto, and I can't blame them. If I ever get my hands on it, I'm not letting go either.

There'll always be an England? ALWAYS?

Don't count on it.

Yes, I'm aware that's a very old saying. Doesn't make it true.

Or move in and then give 'em hell every way possible.

Thanks for the tip - I was going to visit again anyway for updates, but

it's always possible for me to miss something.

And what you shared there is of critical importance. Wish I could disagree with Kentuckian, but I can't. I've been reading Krugman, Reich, and more importantly, Wolff for too long and I suspect perhaps so has K. Thanks also for the link. I've read a good bit of Lenin too, but not everything and as with all great works it's important to revisit them from time to time. At my age some almost seem brand new! I want to work my way through your reading list again too.

That's what I wanted most in retirement after basic needs are met - time to read to my heart's content. I used to have to steal time to read in earlier years, but now there's precious little standing in my way. Have to rake out my house occasionally, and I do love gardening and my dogs - but basically my time's my own now. I want to put the remaining years to good use.

'When' certainly leaves the door open for 'if'.

You're the one jumping the gun here, too freely filling in what you don't understand (or wish to twist, how would I know?) with your own assumptions or wishes about what 'I'm saying'. But I guarantee you this is the last I wish to hear of it after several attempts at straightening you out. Which I have a right to try to do when you're addressing something I said.

Every functional adult has the right and the duty to participate in the struggle for the common good. Because it hurts or is inconvenient provides very little cover. Excusing absence from the fray really insults those you're trying to let off the hook for supposedly noble reasons. If well meant, you still need to remember which road is paved with good intentions. We've already got striking fast food workers, and yes indeed they've been fired. Doesn't look to me like they're backing down!

Think about that and then try again (no, actually, don't) to tell me how the least of these should be excused from the fray. They are wiser, braver and more noble than anyone preaching that they could be excused for opting out for any reason. TOGETHER WE ARE STRONG.

But you're saying on the one hand everyone should, then making exceptions for those it would

inconvenience. I disagree. Rosa Parks, for instance, stood to lose her very life. MLK certainly took that risk and paid it too. Not that they were exactly poor, but the poor who stood with them suffered the same dangers. And Ms. Parks and Dr. King would never have succeeded w/o the strong support of their largely poor followers. Think about the poverty-stricken men who made that southern march where they simply all wore a sign reading "I AM A MAN". During the Summer of Freedom, more than a few poor people - surely with families - laid everything on the line for freedom.

It's happened before. It can happen again. Nobody can tell me they should be able to sit this one out for one convenient reason or another and dishonor those who risked all.

I refuse to answer on the grounds....

Well, I'll think of something.

Probably not her, though. Chamberlain would be an unusual name for Fenians. Not that some of us didn't (ahem) adopt Welsh identities in order to safely immigrate in my grandfather's day.

But my dad was Army, and all my brothers after him. I'm just second-gen native born here. And at home, we were all taught to practically genuflect at the very mention of Michael Collins. He was as close to a secular god as the Irish ever had.

By 'thinking' as some of the like-minded posters in this thread, that's how.

Entirely w/o a conscience, so what's to keep them awake?

That is, until the riots start and they can't reach their Lear jets quick enough. Besides, when this thing THEY created explodes, where will they run? I don't want to be here to see it, but it's going to happen. Sometimes it's a blessing to be old.

Wrong again, buster. What you don't see is not necessarily non-existent.

That idea is sooooo egocentric!