"Even flushing yourself down the toilet of history is trickier than it looks."

Literal bathroom reading at Radishhof--Mark Steyn's NR piece on the death of Europe and the Europeanization of America is now online.

Key graf:

When the state “gives” you plenty – when it takes care of your health, takes cares of your kids, takes care of your elderly parents, takes care of every primary responsibility of adulthood – it’s not surprising that the citizenry cease to function as adults...

But of course, you must read the whole thing for the delightful Steynian prose that induces snickers amidst the gloom.

I have wasted my life.

I could be pulling down big money doing nothing, if I had had babies.

*sigh*

Huh.

So apparently this whole "giving birth" thing isn't really the most amazing moment in a woman's life--or at least, it's not as memorable as watching Barry O give a speech.



If it's wrong to amuse myself by imagining her disappointment next February when Obama doesn't pump her gas for her for free, I don't wanna be right.

(On the plus side, if I "go John Galt", I get free health insurance from you suckers still working. HEH!)

Can I stop paying my student loans?

It's the only debt I have, and it would make a nice downpayment on a house. Unfortunately, I owe the Dept. of Education and not a foreign bank.

Reminder that the bailout allows foreign banks to partake of American taxpayer funding — and that the bailout plan includes buying student loans, car loans, credit card debt and any other “troubled” assets held by banks.

I'm troubled that there's "agreement" and yet no one knows if the provision granting billions of dollars to ACORN is still in it.