benj, just a quickie, i’d say re soros that so complete a laudatory list, which lists every detail otherwise, but avoids the barest mention of Mr. Soros’ two most grandiose & historic achievements, that is, breaking the Pound Sterling and the Bank of England and costing millions of little savers large chunks of their working lives, and the Asian Financial Crisis which ditto’d even greater global damage to real people large & small, or his felony conviction in France for manipulating the stock of a large bank to force its sale to his own secret agent, to his great profit and many innocents’ irreplaceable loss, or his relentless advocacy of steeply higher taxation & regulation for the citizens & enterprise of America while personally conducting his own business (which trades in American assets) tax-free from Carribean tax havens, is along the same general line of crippled credibility that is your own mention above, of cases where capitalism has slopped over the legal and/or moral levee, without any allusion at all to the mighty river itself, or of the life and wealth and freedom and hope and fulfillment that it alone creates, net of course of that immeasurably tiny fraction of slop.

Slop which in any system is a byproduct of the animating dynamism and our ‘fallen’ human nature. Slop which in our open system is an anomaly, and which in closed systems IS the system –or will be soon enough.