No wonder you think I’m in deep right field. Check your GPS.

You’re a lot more extreme than that, but in the other direction. You always play the ball from right field. Deep right.

You’ve put enough up here about your past to show that you’ve had these basic political beliefs most of your adult life.

I’d bet fifty bucks you would have answered my “Pick the Group” post exactly the same ten years ago, never mind all the other touchstones.

Don’t blame me. I played the ball where I found it.

WE ARE SCREWED

But I have to admit, I’ve gotten a lot out of it too. I’m learning how you people think, and how you work, what’s in it for you, and what’s likely to happen if you get what you want.

And you have succeeded in doing the impossible; in just a few short years, you have managed to convert me from someone with only a vague and purely academic interest in economics and politics to an individual who recognizes it is definitely a deadly struggle based on class interests and consolidating power.

So in a way, you HAVE succeeded in changing someone’s mind. How ’bout dem apples, comrade?

Do you think the political opinions of one person are going to change my life one way or the other?

I’m learning things here. For me, its own reward.

Besides, you’re not the only one out there reading this stuff.

You can make statements beginning “I think,” and at the same time pronounce the process of actual thinking completely irrelevant to the discussion.

Hmm, that does suggest an association with Republican values…

Capuchins are considered the most intelligent New World monkeys[14] and are often used in laboratories. The tufted capuchin is especially noted for its long-term tool usage, one of the few examples of primate tool use other than by apes. Upon seeing macaws eating palm nuts, cracking them open with their beaks, these capuchins will select a few of the ripest fruits, nip off the tip of the fruit and drink down the juice, then seemingly discard the rest of the fruit with the nut inside. When these discarded fruits have hardened and become slightly brittle, the capuchins will gather them up again and take them to a large flat boulder where they have previously gathered a few river stones from up to a mile away. They will then use these stones, some of them weighing as much as the monkeys, to crack open the fruit to get to the nut inside. Young capuchins will watch this process to learn from the older, more experienced adults.[15] It may take a capuchin up to 8 years to master this skill.[16]

In 2005, experiments were conducted on the ability of capuchins to use money. After several months of training, the monkeys began exhibiting behaviors considered to reflect understanding of the concept of a medium of exchange that were previously believed to be restricted to humans (such as responding rationally to price shocks). They showed the same propensity to avoid perceived losses demonstrated by human subjects and investors.[17]

During the mosquito season, they crush millipedes and rub the result on their backs. This acts as a natural insect repellent.[18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_monkey