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Exactly my reaction, RA1. It's called a 'primary budget surplus'. The general idea is that as long as the interest on the debt accrues more slowly than the economy grows, then (eventually) it will be easier to keep up payments on the debt. 'Eventually' is usually measured in decades. The unmentioned joker in the deck is that the government should 'eventually' be able to select some opportune time to inflate the currency and thereby cancel some largeish chunk of the debt w/o a formal default. Of course this assumes that the same pols who fucked everything up in the first place are capable of keeping their paws out of the jam jar long enough for all this to work itself out.

Perhaps it's a progesterone thing.

Homosexuality "is an essential part of evolution", say scientists - in hunter-gatherer days, it was an advantage to be bisexual http://www.cityam.com/1416925891/what-makes-people-gay-homosexuality-comes-hunter-gatherer-instinct-and-its-evolutionary

Naw... I often don't get breeder jokes either.

Another fascinating portrait of Merkel. By the extraordinary journalist George Packer. Whom I can report, gratuitously, from a slightly overlapping house tenancy in New Haven long ago, had the most beautiful runner's ass when he was 21. The Quiet German The astonishing rise of Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/quiet-german?intcid=mod-most-popular

To test whether homosexual behaviour really does go hand in hand with a need to form close bonds with others of the same sex, they decided to compare sexual behaviour with the level of a certain hormone in the blood. Progesterone is also known as a “social” hormone – it is produced mainly in the ovaries in women and in the adrenal glands in men, and encourages a person to engage with others in a positive way. They asked a group of participants questions such as "The idea of kissing a person of the same sex is sexually arousing to me," and: "If someone of the same sex made a pass at me I would be disgusted”. They compared the answers to the level of progesterone in the blood. The results, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour, show that the people with higher levels of the hormone are indeed more inclined to have homoerotic thoughts. A glance at the progesterone molecule itself gives a bit of a clue.

Thanks for the great report. love reading about your adventures and the beautiful men you meet