Why?

This is the question of the Republican stonewall on lifting the loan limit:    why-war-on-poor-people?

I don't think Canadians who live in a colder climate can understand why Republicans are acting so stingy. Here if you don't have food and shelter during the winter half of the year you die. Simple as that.  For this reason alone we take the provision of social services pretty seriously.

The wierdest part of this is that the policies Republicans espouse essentially benefit ONLY the top 0.1 %. They make a mockery of the founding notions of the USA.

Sad, very Sad.

OK - So It's an addiction

Saw this title on Y Combinator today: 'Sitting is the new smoking'.

Here is the article.

Sitting is how I have spent much of my adult life and not much has changed since I retired.  I'm not complaining of most of the symptoms mentioned but I certainly recognize that I have a problem.

However the reference to smoking  is indicative of the addictive qualities of this little box that I 'm staring at just now.  It took me about ten years to quite smoking.  I wouldn't be surprised if it took that long to give this up.