offered without further comment

megan mcardle:

We live in degenerate times, my friends. Our ancestors got into ships that would hardly do for a weekend sail on the lake, crossed stormy oceans, fought mountain cats and drought, sailed their prairie schooners into the wilderness, all without as much as a single “Warning: Contains wild animal ingredients” label slapped on the prairie.
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If it is true that Americans have come to a state when they need to be informed that their peanut butter contains, yes, peanuts, then it is time to give the land back to the Indians. Forget the injustice of our initial seizure. A people who cannot determine, merely by glancing at the label, that something called “Peanut Butter” is likely to have quite a few groundnuts in it–that people does not deserve to be in charge of the sunglass concession at the mall, much less a once-great nation.