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Bikini Girls with Machine Guns - The Cramps
There are many great things about America: sorority girls, free refills, college football, watching the Cubs loose. But none of these things would be possible without guns!
For the first time a couple of weekends ago I fired a gun... but not just one gun, six! All because a little things called the second fucking amendment: the right to be a badass! After the 21st and 12th it's definately my favourite.
But owning a gun isn't just about looking cool and settling disputes (Burr vs Hamilton anyone?) it's also fundamental as a positive check on the population.
So today's lesson is Malthus, the dreariest, least loved of all the economists. He gets a bad press because he predicted over population and disaster - which never happened (excpet in Ireland... but who cares about that?). However, I think it's time to examine Malthus in relation to contentious issues in modern America, gun control and birth control.
For Malthus population grows faster than our ability to supply it with the necessities of life. As a consequence it must be checked by either mortality (positive checks) or decreased fertility (negative checks).
Gun control is clearly bad for America because guns provide a positive check on the population. Birth control on the other hand provides a negative check by reducing fertility so it's also good. So you should carry a gun and a condom on you at all times. Incidently perhaps we need another ammendment to enshrine the right to birth control - right to protected sex.
So the moral of Malthus is, go off shoot guns and have a lot of sex, but use birth control. I think that's pretty simple.
For the first time a couple of weekends ago I fired a gun... but not just one gun, six! All because a little things called the second fucking amendment: the right to be a badass! After the 21st and 12th it's definately my favourite.
But owning a gun isn't just about looking cool and settling disputes (Burr vs Hamilton anyone?) it's also fundamental as a positive check on the population.
So today's lesson is Malthus, the dreariest, least loved of all the economists. He gets a bad press because he predicted over population and disaster - which never happened (excpet in Ireland... but who cares about that?). However, I think it's time to examine Malthus in relation to contentious issues in modern America, gun control and birth control.
For Malthus population grows faster than our ability to supply it with the necessities of life. As a consequence it must be checked by either mortality (positive checks) or decreased fertility (negative checks).
Gun control is clearly bad for America because guns provide a positive check on the population. Birth control on the other hand provides a negative check by reducing fertility so it's also good. So you should carry a gun and a condom on you at all times. Incidently perhaps we need another ammendment to enshrine the right to birth control - right to protected sex.
So the moral of Malthus is, go off shoot guns and have a lot of sex, but use birth control. I think that's pretty simple.
