I've been so sleepy these past few days.

[conuly]

Weird.

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Comments

[stardreamer]

They "couldn't find any evidence" that regulations were hurting the economy. I'll bet if they'd been willing to look, they'd have found evidence that what little regulation we have left is keeping it afloat.

[conuly]

Given the natural human dislike of admitting they were wrong, I'm pleased as punch they got as far as they did.

[fayanora]

What gets me about the mumbling thing is that I thought mumbling was defined as "not talking loud enough to be understood."

[crystalpyramid]

The camps we stuck Japanese-Americans in were technically concentration camps too, at the time. The problem is that we then tried to use it for the German death camps, as if to minimize their horribleness.

[conuly]

Yes.