TEENAGE ENTHUSIAST IS BACK!

[Nirvana3240]

I don't know if any of you noticed or not but, after a month off, the blog Teenage Enthusiast is back! Its just getting started but big stuff is on the way so spread the word and keep checking in. Check it out: http://teenageenthusiast.blogspot.com

Thanks yall.

[livius drusus]

Welcome back, Nirvana. Glad you survived the election.

[Nirvana3240]

....barely

[livius drusus]

You and the rest of the 48%. On the bright side, your blog entries continue to be excellent.

[Nirvana3240]

ha thanks

[Clutch Munny]

Just outta curiousity: Why do you say that American "Social security needs to be modified, no doubt. If its not changed, its going to be a huge disaster"?

I'm not laying a trap or anything; I'm no expert on SS. But my sneaking suspicion is that a lot of rhetoric whereby it's become a received view that SS needs to be "fixed" was politically motivated. Certainly I've not yet seen any serious attempt to demonstrate the fact, and I've seen a good deal of shenanigans in the non-serious attempts. See today's (or rather yesterday's) Daily Howler, for instance -- the second story on the page. (For finding the link subsequently, that'll be the DH from Tuesday Jan 4 2005, once you get to Somerby's site).

[Edit: Now that today's (Wed. Jan 5) Daily Howler is up, I see that it too is about SS]

[Blake]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

That smilie's pretty funny, since the blue one is consoling the red one. Perhaps it's a Kerry supporter comforting a newly awakened, horrified and repentant Bush voter?

[Clutch Munny]

It's a blue smilie putting the moves on a same-sex red smilie, by moving across state lines. It shows how the rot spreads from evil liberal states to holy conservative ones.

[livius drusus]

Y'all are perverts. Although it does kind of look like they're kissing lingeringly at the end.

[Nirvana3240]

Originally Posted by Clutch Munny

Just outta curiousity: Why do you say that American "Social security needs to be modified, no doubt. If its not changed, its going to be a huge disaster"?

Ah! Sorry it took me so long to reply!
From what I understand, Its in HUGE danger of running out of $$$

[Clutch Munny]

Originally Posted by Nirvana3240

Ah! Sorry it took me so long to reply!
From what I understand, Its in HUGE danger of running out of $$$

Thanks. Yes, I understood you to be saying that. But why do you think so?

The DH links, for instance, suggest that the danger is anywhere from decades to forever down the road.