dajafi wrote:Then again, I'm increasingly sympathetic to the "let the states figure it out" default of policymaking, where the externalities are limited (which rules out e.g. environmental stuff) and basic rights aren't imperiled (e.g. voting stuff).

Monkeyboy wrote:

drsmooth wrote:Glenn Beck declaring his condition has longstanding medical roots is [fill in the blank. pro tip: anything fits]

adrenal fatigue?!?!



Oh man, he's a jackass and just plain stupid.

Maybe he should buy some McMunn's Elixir of Opium or maybe some Dr Guertin's Nerve Syrup. Or maybe he should have his feet detoxified. Poor guy.

Monkeyboy wrote:

drsmooth wrote:Glenn Beck declaring his condition has longstanding medical roots is [fill in the blank. pro tip: anything fits]

adrenal fatigue?!?!



Oh man, he's a jackass and just plain stupid.

Maybe he should buy some McMunn's Elixir of Opium or maybe some Dr Guertin's Nerve Syrup. Or maybe he should have his feet detoxified. Poor guy.

Adrenal fatigue or hypoadrenia are terms used in alternative medicine to describe the unproven belief that the adrenal glands are exhausted.

Adrenal fatigue is a term applied to a collection of nonspecific symptoms, such as body aches, fatigue, nervousness, sleep disturbances and digestive problems. The term often shows up in popular health books and on alternative medicine websites, but it isn't an accepted medical diagnosis.

Proponents of the adrenal fatigue diagnosis claim this is a mild form of adrenal insufficiency caused by chronic stress. Existing blood tests, according to this theory, aren't sensitive enough to detect such a small decline in adrenal function.

This medically unrecognized diagnosis from unqualified practitioners has given rise to an industry of dietary supplements marketed to treat adrenal fatigue. These supplements are largely unregulated in the U.S., are ineffective, and in some cases dangerous.

phatj wrote:I'm not any of those things, and while I would prefer in a vacuum that all traffic be treated equally, I don't think that it's the government's job to tell telecoms how to manage their bandwidth. Let's not pretend like high speed internet is a civil right.

pacino wrote:

phatj wrote:Let's not pretend like high speed internet is a civil right.

dajafi wrote:Here's Ezra Klein responding to the David Leonhardt "wage stagnation" article that doc linked a couple days ago.

tl;dr version: Leonhardt is very probably wrong.

Democrats won the most votes among voters with the lowest incomes. They won 59 percent of voters making less than $30,000, and 51 percent of voters making between $31,000 and $50,000, and lost every income class above that.

TenuredVulture wrote:

dajafi wrote:Here's Ezra Klein responding to the David Leonhardt "wage stagnation" article that doc linked a couple days ago.

tl;dr version: Leonhardt is very probably wrong.

Here's the problem with Klein. Much of his case revolves around claims like this:

Democrats won the most votes among voters with the lowest incomes. They won 59 percent of voters making less than $30,000, and 51 percent of voters making between $31,000 and $50,000, and lost every income class above that.

This has always been the case. But it's not an argument that the Democrat's inability to present credible solutions to the problem of wage stagnation. If lower and middle income people really thought that the Dems had an answer, more of them might have voted. Their lack of engagement in the process is evidence that the Dems aren't providing any inspiring message, not that they don't care about wage stagnation.

jerseyhoya wrote:Landrieu and Heitkamp are on the Senate floor sounding like the Koch sisters carrying on about the importance of passing Keystone

Brings a tear to the eye