topic for your discussion

i was thinking as i drove home tonight about language and how people come to have a particular repertoire of words and phrases and it's as identifiable to them as say... the clothes they wear or more perhaps.. maybe like your voice itself. so anyway, the point: does your language inform your personality or does your personality inform your language? if you think about the words used when you were small and acquiring your first language, your parents' influence could be very potent in the development of your vocabulary and how you use it. unless you believe that the personality came first, and that defines how you acquire and add your style to the way you speak. i'm sure you will have many interesting thoughts, and i'd like to read them. so post.

Analogy

Read this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

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got that?

offended?

Here's an analogy from Cat:
a home-cooked meal competes with a dinner in a restaurant. Thereby hampering [interstate] commerce. This is done on a massive scale every night of the year, depriving millions of potential restaurant proprietors the chance at a tip and some mark-up. Just think of the potential for lost revenue... so it should follow that Congress has the power to regulate the number of times you eat dinner at home otherwise the entire food service industry would collapse. right?

the analogy i came up with was a service not a commodity:
free sex competes with the sex you should be paying for at a legal [or illegal] brothel. so congress should prevent that sex in whatever capacity they can - perhaps they can outlaw gay marriage on authority of the commerce clause?

WTF?!