<p>Yes, this conversation has really deteriorated!</p>
<p>If I was to suggest a bidet for our house, my husband would laugh so hard he’d snort his coffee through his nose. Should one have been in the house when we bought it, he probably would have relocated it outside and used it as a planter.</p>
<p>Real rich people don’t have bidets, they have help to do the,ahem, dirty work for them</p>
<p>Busdriver, I do not see any reason why you should feel guilty over inheriting money from your parents. The money your parents earned and save is their money. If they choose to bequeath it to their kids then I absolutely think it is their right to do so. I don’t think the government has any right in the slightest to it.</p>
<p>But I’m just weird. I believe in property rights, silly me.</p>
<p>Then some Rich People are careful in doing things that got them rich and never let thhe hired help see what everyone knows…</p>
<p>Meanwhile guests and kids can continue to use TP. :)</p>
<p>Actually sewhappy, I wouldn’t feel guilty. Only if I never worked or contributed, but just lived off of inherited wealth. Which sure hasn’t happened, I’ve worked since I was 15. I don’t think about my parents finances, as I hope they live long enough to spend it all(and they are so healthy they just might). It is their money they have saved, every last penny, and I sure wish they would live it up and enjoy it a little more.</p>
<p>Good suggestions BD11; a bidet to irrigate sinus’ and a self-watering planter.</p>
<p>BD, the bidets were and are a great aid for my very senior inlaws and parents.</p>
<p>Our last house in Dallas came with a bizarre bidet which was across the bathroom from the commode. We used it as a water bowl for the cats. They loved it.</p>
<p>“We used it as a water bowl for the cats”</p>
<p>Funny, there’s a good use for a bidet.
Me and my husband were just laughing about the bidet thing, and decided it would be a great trick to have a hidden bidet, inside a normal toilet. Which we could activate upon our unsuspecting guests.</p>
<p>Yes, longprime, I think my grandmother really needs a bidet. I might suggest it if I could find a way without offending her. Great idea as a sinus wash though, seeing as I have a sinus infection this week.</p>
<p>Speaking of interpreting history and the Great Depression (#245) did anyone have thoughts on this?</p>
<p>[The</a> Book of Jobs | Politics | Vanity Fair](<a href=“http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/01/stiglitz-depression-201201]The”>Joseph Stiglitz: “A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other Way Around” | Vanity Fair)</p>
<p>Joseph Stiglitz in the January issue of Vanity Fair</p>
<p>edit: I don’t know if you can access the whole article on-line. It’s a bit too complicated to just do a box quote. I don’t even want to try and summarize.</p>
<p>record foreclosures here. shelters and food bank swamped. I am praying things get better in '12</p>
<p>Mall parking lots are packed and I’ve noticed an increase in 18-wheelers on the road (I avoid being anywhere near them when I can). The job situation seems to be getting a little bit better too.</p>
<p>All is apparently well here in my neck of the woods…wednesday night went to a local BYOB,pricey restaurnat and it was 3/4 full…</p>
<p>Had a peek at my son’s career center openings for his major - an absolute ton of postings for positions this month. The postings are very specific for skills though.</p>
<p>It is bad here, worse than in neighboring state, worse than in Detroit. It will not get better for awhile, too many regulations, businesses cannot hire because of unknown cost of each employee. Many businesses are moving out to different states (not to China, huge misperception), they are moving to state with less or no taxes and non-union labor. this includes foreign companies openning businesses and building plants in the USA, not in our state though. But this will never ever change because of our situation and representation.</p>
<p>The open positions that I see in the Northeast are for very highly education levels - there are internet companies, biotech, financial, etc. I understand that Cambridge, MA is becoming a real hotspot for biotech and that lab space vacancy rates are way down. MA is an expensive place to do business - lots of regulations, taxes, etc. But MA is doing better than the rest of the country.</p>
<p>It seems like there are industries that work better with low regulations and taxes and others that can do fine in states that are expensive to operate in.</p>
<p>I think that costly places to do business also have a much deeper and smarter labor force then areas where it is cheaper to do business, and many businesses have learned this</p>
<p>alh#290, wasn’t able to read the whole thing - will find it offline - Bittman did a column this week (NYT) about McGovern, food and WIC you may like.</p>
<p>Re: biotech in MA. Ma has excellent graduate schools and colleges with well-run tech transfer offices (MIT, UMass, Harvard, etc.). MA academia is not industry-phobic, and that in turn leads to a lot of startups that originate from technology developed in those academic labs. Our local big state research U’s are just beginning to realize the value of the royalties and license fees brought in by the tech outlicensing.</p>
<h1>298 Thanks! I don’t usually see the times mid-week.</h1>