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lie to me

Or you could do what presumably millions of people do and date or marry other people who tolerate or even enjoy such things rather than practice arts of cloak and dagger mysteries. Sex or pornography addictions are one thing and online flirtations still another (to say nothing of real life dysfunctions). Finding a different means expression of a spouse's (or the potential for one) sexuality? I'm not sure that's always going to be worth it, but where it is, what's the point in hiding who you are from generally the most intimate person in your life?

Other news, which feels like last year's news since it was fairly obvious: Sarah Palin will have millions of dollars available to her to frontline for various conservative groups. Cashing in always looked like the most likely reason. We'll know in about a month I guess if it's the only reason, but "Follow the money" is just about the oldest routine in journalism and political analysis.

Pitfalls of regulatory systems

Laws of unintended consequences make it difficult to properly value such things. But sometimes it does appear we need some better technocratic advice on how to run a country and less business-minded advice.

This is one of the more complicated arguments involving reducing pollution generally. Hybrids see this all time such that people would have to drive them for several years (much as they would in an economic sense for any car, only now for pollution's sake as well). There's pollution generated by individual optimal use, which is low, and then there's pollution generated to create, which is not (at least not yet). Individual optimal use however doesn't always exist. People consume energy more easily when they think their costs are low, or they tolerate and/or create greater traffic conditions which waste fuel and generate more pollution. There's a careful balance required that I'm not sure policy makers understand in order to create actual conservation of energy or less pollution. Given how easily they screw up less technically demanding fields, I am not optimistic.