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The great legal challenge to the health care bill is both procedural and Constitutional.

Pursuant to the 10th Amendment, Congress does not have the authority to just vote themselves new powers such as it is attempting to do.

What would be needed for such a thing to happen would be a national referendum with a majority of Americans voting to modify the Constitution to say that health care is a right (which it isn’t, not least because there is no equal and opposite responsibility that can be associated with it) and that we wish to cede to the Federal government the authority to administer it.

Moreover, also pursuant to the 10th Amendment, the Federal government lacks the authority to compel citizens to purchase a given product or service. They might be able to *do* so, at least temporarily, but they are violating the Constitution in the attempt.

What’s funny is that, to get the health care piracy bill passed, the Democrats have ignored the law, bent the law, broken the law, spat on the law, twisted the law, abused the law, distorted the law, and mangled the law.

Then, if they get it through, they’ll stand up and say, “You have to _respect_ this, because it’s the _law_”.

On this red-letter day, I managed to survive rush hour on the 826, the (in)famous Palmetto Expressway in Miami.

Churning relentlessly southward, driving lights fading to the horizon both fore and aft, I felt humbled yet thrilled to be part of such a dramatically large surge of humanity.

This, I thought, must be akin to the primal thrill someone feels the first time they run with the bulls at Pamplona.

I can see
a workable argument
for removing the concept of
“body image”
permanently.

If you eat well
go to the gym regularly
maybe get a little coaching to identify your strengths
and weaknesses
in a short time
you will look
exactly
like someone who is you
who is in good shape
would look.

In a perfect world
that should have
been your
goal
from the very start.

Turns out that “fruit on the bottom” yogurt isn’t at all what I thought it was.

It sounded uncomfortable at best.

Mangled is the bit
Kernel panic screams failure
So free, so happy

If something is “technically possible”
there is little doubt
that someone will be foolish or greedy enough to try to actually try to *do* it.

On rare occasion, they will actually succeed.

Even more rarely will their success prove to be a good thing for humanity as a whole.

Almost never will the ramifications of success be considered *before* the attempt is made.