Subject: Solving the Litter Problem
Re: "Hey, Wait a Minute: What's So Great About Septuplets?"
From: Yukon
Date: Fri Jul 20 11:15 a.m. PT

Perhaps there ought to be a point system of some kind so that individuals and families can flexibly exercise their rights to choose life and death for themselves or others, but things don't get out of hand. For example, if you abort two fetuses, you have to keep a senile relative alive for three years instead of killing him. If you commit suicide, you use up your family's whole allotment of "death points" for a generation. This would be fair and rational, as opposed to the present "system" in which emotional and moral issues keep producing messy and inconsistent results.

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Subject: Interns Are Scabs

Re: "Assessment: Washington Interns"

From: Wrongshore

Date: Fri Jul 20  11:26 a.m. PT

To the extent that interns serve so vital a role that they replace what should be a full-time job, they are taking away jobs from people who could earn a decent living doing the vital, unglamorous functions of the government. As taxpayers, we think hurray! But as workers, we should be in favor of expanding good-paying federal jobs. … Of course, people who understand themselves as workers might be less inclined to sleep with aging congressmen, so concerned taxpayers can sleep easy at night, knowing that this money-saving system is safe.

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Subject: Ads Are Bad for You

Re: "Moneybox: Ad Report Card—Mercky Message"

From: Texwiz

Date: Wed Jul 18  12:43 p.m. PT

Is no one going to state the obvious, that we really need to ban the advertising of prescription drugs in anything other than professional medical journals? I am as big a free speech advocate as anyone, but if we can restrict tobacco and liquor advertising, doesn't it make sense to restrict the advertising of a substance considered dangerous enough that you have to get a doctor's permission to purchase it? … Advertising to the layman (who may also be a raging hypochondriac) only muddies the waters, scares consumers, and irritates health care professionals.

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Subject: Silver Lining

Re: "Culturebox: Fashion Do's"

From: A-Z

Date: Tue Jul 17  2:29 p.m. PT