Shady Behavior?

AITOOW wonders if Armie Hammer committed all those allegedly weird sexual acts around the time Fifty Shades of Gray was a thing?

Payoff Layoff

AITOOW thinks the Dems like the $15 minimum wage because it results in more unemployment/dependency?

Gig-iddy Gigiddy

AITOOW wonders if it is a good thing we are opening the economy to things like iber and airbnb? On one hand they add supply. On the other, they seem to be more or just as expensive. And they can be less "good". People in third world communities have gypsy cabs and boarding houses. Are we regressing? Sounds like Cuba. I've heard non-pros are opening up "pop up" dining. Didn't these businesses used to be called "favors"? I'll give you a ride. Stat at my place. Come on over for dinner. Is this the result of people having no roots? Now we must pay for these things? Is that healthy? It so funny that every issue seems to be a trade off. No yes or no answer. Opening things up can lead to more competition which can cause the entrnched infrastructure to innovate and improve. Or it can cause a deterioration in both due to the lack of "professionalism/over sight. Licensing can create a base line or be used to entrench an unresponsive industry. It can lower cost or increase it because of additional up front costs to compete and lower profit margins and wasted supply. Ahh, the world of commerce. So many ways to view it. I guess the real winner is the tax man. These companies shrink the "secret" economy.

Mouth Piece

AITOOW thinks it is funny that girls now wear more clothing on their face (without bitching) than on their ass? Vage and tits are about equal.

The Right (Handed) Stuff

AITOOW wonders why baseball teams want a diversified line up? If all the other teams have half lefty and half righty pitching staffs, wouldn't it make sense to have ALL righty or ALL lefty hitters? Since they usually match up opposites, then you render half their staff unusable (or less advantaged). And with the three hitter rule, it can really cause a problem.

Fury and Sound

AITOOW thinks that Trump's speech which led to an impeachment can be viewed through the lens of the "reasonable person" construct? It is a piece of legal gymnastics in place of a true standard. We pretend their is an empirically reasonable person out there whom will act in a way in which we may measure everyone else's behavior. I won't even begin to debate empiricism at this point. So, the right hears these words and expects a reasonable person to do what? Riot, loot, murder, maim, pillage? No. The right expects them to petition their representatives, cajole, shout, vote, sloganeer and maybe march. The wrong (aka left) hears words like this or less (maybe even uses supersonic hearing to hear a dog whistle) and is compelled to riot, loot, maim, murder and pillage. So, the difference is in us. Not the words. Personally I believe the right's definition seems a bit more reasonable. But, I'm no empiricist (used to be). Can't say what their definition would be (because it would basically be made up by men and not at all objective). And that is why we have such disparate views on Trump's speech. One side has been taught (maybe instinctual in people who become wrong) attack dogs at a command. One that does not. I reiterate that in a democracy, I believe the former is the standard we wshould prefer. I'll toss in the thought that we also have had four years plus of Trump's rhetoric. We get the subtext by now. We get what he is trying to say. We hear the sacasm and the irony and the rest. So, the thought that his speech was a catlyst to action has an even higher bar to cross than a most milquetoast politician's. If I was his defense team, I would have carved out thirty minutes for this argument and then showed montage after montage of the wrong speaking and inciting bad behavior juxtaposed with the right and nothing happening. Because the question wasn't whether people purportedly on the right acted reasonablly. But, whether the speech incited them to do it. The inference would be that the wrong's defintion of the reasonable person would have to be used. And that, I think, would have caused many Americans to rethink their opinion on which side is in their right state of mind.

Monkey Business

AITOOW thinks businesses have pivoted away from Caucasians? I think their metrics suggest that non-whites have reached a point where they are the more attractive market to market to. Their politics/ads/declarations sure seem to support that. We all know that you can't serve two masters. That or their management is really selling out shareholders to virtue signal. And I guess they aren't really selling out shareholders as more and more investment consortiums are pressuring compamies to virtue signal over conducting a profitable business.