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On 6 August 1945, a B29 (the Enola Gay) dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, inflicting a level of destruction that astonished even the bomb’s designers.
Like any other endeavor where helpless animals are placed at a disadvantage (in this case, they spin the pheasants first to make them dizzy) in order to provide adorable little children with the joy of inflicting pain and causing death.
About a month ago, the NYT ran a front-page story revealing that crash tests show sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks are inflicting very high levels of harm to cars and their occupants in collisions, and today the Times brings word that in response, some big insurance companies are raising their liability rates on the oversize vehicles.
Hypothesis 3 says that when I buy a $100 gun, I protect myself from, say, $150 worth of property loss, while inflicting, say, $75 worth of property loss on my neighbors--because half the criminals who try unsuccessfully to rob me go on to rob someone else instead.
But McCain has come up with an ass-backward method of inflicting merit pay--an idea that's awful for so many reasons one almost doesn't know where to begin criticizing it.