I've tried searching the blog many times for all possible variations of "alien space bat". No joy.
From back at the time when it looked like the hosting service was going to drop Typepad, and the Typepad export-content function was broken, and I pulled all of the site's content out the hard way...
I still have a flat text file with everything up to that point. Thumbing through on the word alien (case independent), there are numerous mentions of space aliens. Someone flat out states that Moe Lane is a space alien. Someone follows that with, "No, I meant intelligent space aliens." There seems to be agreement that Alien vs Predator is the definitive example of film franchises that have gone on too long. Nothing in a context suggesting alien space bats.
So it's entirely possible for a very wealthy person to prefer a weekend's leisure to another million dollars.
But would they prefer a person in Flint getting potable water from their faucet to another million dollars? That is a bit more opaque.
So if I understand this correctly, they give up the weekend's leisure, get another million dollars, and then give it to whoever to is taking care of the lead pipes in Flint. Is that right? Would they prefer a weekend's leisure or fix the Flint pipes?
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I've tried searching the blog many times for all possible variations of "alien space bat". No joy.
From back at the time when it looked like the hosting service was going to drop Typepad, and the Typepad export-content function was broken, and I pulled all of the site's content out the hard way...
I still have a flat text file with everything up to that point. Thumbing through on the word alien (case independent), there are numerous mentions of space aliens. Someone flat out states that Moe Lane is a space alien. Someone follows that with, "No, I meant intelligent space aliens." There seems to be agreement that Alien vs Predator is the definitive example of film franchises that have gone on too long. Nothing in a context suggesting alien space bats.
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So it's entirely possible for a very wealthy person to prefer a weekend's leisure to another million dollars.
But would they prefer a person in Flint getting potable water from their faucet to another million dollars? That is a bit more opaque.
So if I understand this correctly, they give up the weekend's leisure, get another million dollars, and then give it to whoever to is taking care of the lead pipes in Flint. Is that right? Would they prefer a weekend's leisure or fix the Flint pipes?
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.