Of course they will sell plans to everyone if everyone must buy it. Wouldn't every industry like it to illegal NOT to buy their product? How about fixing the auto industry by mandating that everyone must be a new car? Let's boost the building industry: everyone must buy a new house!

Hey, let's go the whole hog, let's make it illegal to be sick. Then we wont need Health Insurance. Better still let's make it illegal to be poor. Doesn't that solve all our problems?

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Google de-listed a German website because it was cheating.

Sounds right: Google is the good guy protecting its customer from receiving deceptive results. They were the bad guys trying to deceive. They got what they deserved.

Does anyone see any danger in that?

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Today is an historic day in many ways. For many it's the first time they were eligible to vote in a general election, and for some it's the first time they actually voted, and, thankfully, many more are voting the first time they become eligible. (And apparently there's also something special about the candidates, but whatever).

For me, it's not the first time I was eligible to vote, nor the first time I voted. I've lived through 10 general elections since I became eligible to vote. But this is the first time in my life that my vote has had the even the slightest chance of counting.

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I can spend all my money, buy or sale stocks, buy books, insurance, socks and drugs, all from the convenience of my house, using my PC and an Internet Connection. Why can't I vote that way?

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While Fortune acknowledges that HENRY (families that are High Earners Not Rich Yet) are the bread and butter of its subscription list and so you can't expect them to be too hard on them, this article is not exactly hard hitting journalism,. They do agree that it's hard to weep for families that earn more than 98% of American households.

The thrust of the article is that HENRYs are already pretty stretched financially and can't afford the tax increases necessary to pay for the bailout (or Obama's proposed tax increases on people making more than $250K).

There's an interesting table in the print version of the article that's not in the on-line version.

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In the 2008 Election, vastly more people voted early than in any prior election. What happens if they change their mind after they have voted?

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A few days ago, McCain's Strategy-du-jour was to argue that an unchecked control of government by Democrats was a danger that Americans should avoid. Having all three branches of government under the control of one party endangers our system of checks and balances. It is a recipe for disaster. After all, look what happened when Republicans had that dominance, but McCain forgot to point that out.

McCain has a point.

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You probably haven't heard many people say “Nobody would have been a better President than George W Bush”. But unless you are one of the 20% that think he's done a fine job, you are not parsing the sentence correctly. Today's po is “Having nobody as President would have been better than Bush.”

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