dwe3000

I have looked in what I believe to be the step above the Bic pens - 5-10 USD range - and it has been harder and harder to find anything I like.

This article focuses on ink flow, which I understand as important, but my favorite pen is my favorite because of something completely different - the body of the pen.

Personally, I do not like what I refer to as "fat" pens. My favorite pen is a slim model ball point made years ago by Paper Mate. They no longer make it. At its widest, it is not much bigger than a standard number 2 pencil (it's narrower than a Fisher Space Pen). All of the larger, "ergonomic" pens I have ever held remind me of the twice as thick pencils used in pre-school and kindergarten when I didn't have the fine motor skills to hold the smaller pencil - maybe okay back then, but not what I want now.

Why not?

> "Our shyness is unique", he contends, "because we are alone in being gifted, and burdened, with self-consciousness ... meta-thought."

Is it just me, or is it strange to accept the anthropomorphism of shyness but rule out self-consciousness? Just because they can't tell us, "Hey, I'm a cat, and I think about myself all the time."?

These complaints come up in the U.S. every 4 years, with someone always saying it isn't "fair." Often, they have no appreciation of the historical reasons for the choice - just an off the cuff response that we don't live in the past.

We have already changed one type of election from representative to direct democracy in the case of national senators, who used to be elected by state legislatures. I personally don't know if I would consider it a successful change.

Ft in high school, m in college ...

I think your analogy is a little misleading. In my opinion, the foundation is still strong, but where the foundation was for one shape of house, the additions and changes made on top of the foundation are unstable.

I do agree that for most discussions around US Federal government, the Constitution does not play an ethical or legal role.