Even though there’s a severe language warning, I highly recommend you listen to this clip from a recent Adam Carolla podcast. He talks about a fundamental change in American society: Envy. This, of course, has been deliberately hyper-inflated by Barack Obama and his comrades but, as Carolla explains, is the byproduct of at least 20 years of the “Participation Trophy” mentality. Another interesting insight he provides is how Envy has become the fundamental commonality connecting Radical Leftism with Radical Islamism.

Glenn Beck: Adam Carolla is MY HERO!
An earlier anti-OWS rant by Carolla
Another rant by Carolla, from nearly 2 years ago
Note: In 2012, carefully watch how Democrat apparatchiks and their sycophants in the MSM keep playing the Envy card over & over & over again. Of course, they’ll spin it as “social justice” and “economic equality” but it’s really Envy that they’re desperately trying to stir up in voters. Hopefully a majority of these voters will pay attention to Eric Duhaime’s 5th Life Lesson.

Unbeknownst to the OWS participants and supporters, a college-like degree in “Basic Life Lessons and Economic Realities” was available to them, free of charge, if only they paid attention to what actually happened over the past 2 months. In a brilliant column, that should be printed out and affixed above the bed of every entitlement junkie, Eric Duhaime outlines the valuable life lessons:

1. Down with public property
2. Banks fulfill an essential function
3. Law and order help when you’re being pushed around by criminals
4. You need to work before you eat
5. The leaders of the Left never practice what they preach

Folks on the Left constantly remind the rest of us of how incredibly open minded they are. Duhaime’s 5 absolute truths provide a valuable opportunity to test this assertion. Observe the Leftists you encounter in 2012 and see which ones earned an “A” and which ones ended up with an “F” in Duhaime’s course.
For extra credit towards an A+, direct them to this discussion between the author and Charles Adler.

Publius goes against the current grain (no kidding!):

Ignorance & Apathy
Go together like a horse and carriage…
Encouraging young people to vote is essentially asking the least experienced in adult society to help run society. This is also the same group that, economically, contributes very little to the national fisc. It’s easy to believe in utopia when you don’t know any better, and someone else is footing the bill. If you’re a politician selling the same pie-in-sky dreams for decades, the youth of Canada look like a tempting target.
But the young are connected, integrated and diverse! That must make them ideal voters! Not really. The highly efficient exchange of blather, i.e. social media, adds little to the sum total of human wisdom. Diversity? Turns out non-white young people are about as vapid as white young people…

How silly of me to think that the entitlement mentality of Canadians could get any worse. But along comes Dr. Rajendra Kale, editor in chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, who argues that, “Parking fees amount to a user fee in disguise.”
The Vancouver Sun editorial board disagrees with him. But surprise, surprise, Saskatoon’s Tammy Robert does not. She thinks she’s hard done by and whines on Charles Adler’s shoulder about her plight. In other words, Ms. Robert thinks it’s perfectly fine for her fellow taxpayers, including many of whom likely make a whole lot less than her family does, to be paying her bills. That’s pathetic.
Should we expect a Human Rights case to be filed in the not too distant future?!
Personal Note: Earlier this week I was staying at a hotel in San Francisco. They wanted $45/day extra for parking. I said “no way” and found free parking not too far away. If you don’t want to pay for parking then don’t park there!

If SDA Trolls are any indication of the Leftist mindset, then they truly aren’t remotely aware of how [small-c] conservatives think. Member of the European Parliament, Daniel Hannan, has penned a simple memo to help the comrades better understand.
Here’s a snippet:

Those of us who believe in small government are not motivated by the desire to make the rich richer. We’re really not. We are, in most cases, nowhere near having to pay top rate tax ourselves; our most eloquent champions over the years have been modestly-paid academics. We believe that economic freedom will enrich the country as a whole. Yes, the wealthy might become wealthier still, but we don’t see that as an argument against raising living standards for the majority.