Mitt Romney's little behind closed doors speech reminded me of this.

I haven't listened to it, I find I live a happier life not caring about politics. I made this little blurb about it the other day, hope you don't mind me quote bombing myself!


Politics = Arguing about how to split up a finite pie

Economics = figures out how big the pie is

Science = Figures out how to make pies bigger, much bigger and more delicious

Engineers = Figures out how to actually make the pies

Hard to have the latter without the former, but the latter have increased your quality of life much more recently. Spend more time arguing about science and engineering and less about economics and politics...you will be happier, I guarantee it!

Oversimplified, perhaps (see also: yes), but the thrust of it is mostly true I believe

Guess we're all supposed to feel bad about slavery, and if the cues weren't subtle enough, it has to be WHOOPIE! explaining it to Picard instead of, say, Riker.

Slavery was a worldwide enterprise for thousands of years. With the possible exception of Eskimos, there is not a race on the planet that hasn't been enlaved (or been the enslavers). Jews, Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Indians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Japanese, English, Irish, all have been slaves.

It's only a certain party of victimhood portraying American Blacks as the only people who were ever slaves.