This is a rare thing. I can't look at 'mainstream media' without getting pissed off. So one of my very few news sources is Time magazine. It's like a quality publication. At the same time, the letters pages are 'better quality'. Harsh as it is, I think it's because people who are happy with the free newspapers on trains... they don't write to time, so I am spared their idiocy.

I have just read a letter pointing out how very wrong an article was to suggest that oil companies have any control over prices. "If they did, then why would oil prices ever drop?"

1 - they have recently dropped an awful lot. I know this, and I don't pay any attention to the world. Who do these 'tards think is responsible for that?

2 - Why would anyone ever drop a price? To get people to buy things. I could sell coffee at $50 a cup. If I want the side of the equation where anyone buys my coffee... I drop to $3. This is all completely within my control.

The two writers of this letter are from the "Competitive Enterprise Institute" in Washington.