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A Twilight Zone Episode Reveals the Unrelenting Genius of Free Trade
RCM ^ | 09/10/2017 | By Allan Golombek

Posted on 09/11/2017 11:03:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: IronJack
He just needed cheaters for reading. He could get 100 pairs in a raid on Walgreens.

Did you see the coke bottle lenses Bemis wore?

The kind of reading glasses sold at Walgreens only go up to a Plus 3, maybe plus 3.5. I've never seen a plus 4 over-the-counter pair reading glasses. Your mileage may vary.

Bemis probably needed a plus 10 or more to be able to read. To get that, he'd have to stack three Plus 3s and a plus 1 to get the equivalent of plus 10 reading glasses. That's certainly not comfortable and would likely provide a very narrow field of view, but they would still work, one eye at a time. Angle of view would be severely limited. I doubt Bemis could stack that many and read with both eyes at once.

41 posted on 09/11/2017 2:03:33 PM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Dr. Sivana

He’d have to fight the zombies on the way there.


42 posted on 09/11/2017 2:20:41 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: unlearner

“People need people...”

Did you have to bring up Barbra Steisand?


43 posted on 09/11/2017 2:28:57 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: tophat9000

“his best friend was a volleyball”

The volleyball turned out to be pretty decent company.


44 posted on 09/11/2017 2:54:51 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: central_va

There is NOTHING in the Constitution that compels tariffs.


45 posted on 09/11/2017 4:16:42 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: rightwingcrazy
The lesson I got out of it, was it was just cruel irony.

Sure he had time enough at last to read books, but his broken glasses prevented that.

BTW, this episode bothered me because I could never understand why his wife was such a biatch to him.

All he wanted to do was read, and she wouldn't allow him to do so.

Why would she care?

He could have been out being a terrible husband, but his *reading* really bothered her that much?

46 posted on 09/11/2017 4:27:38 PM PDT by boop (I'd wish you luck, but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s the one.


47 posted on 09/11/2017 4:27:39 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, blow it out your ear, Golum. I always hoped Bemis was farsighted and could find, among the rubble, an optometry shop with glasses waiting to be picked up, that might fit him. A magnifying glass, which he could find in the bank building or library would work, as well. As an avid reader, I was never satisfied with the ending in that episode.


48 posted on 09/11/2017 4:35:24 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative
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To: Dr. Sivana

That was going to be in the sequel but the series was cancelled.


49 posted on 09/11/2017 4:37:22 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: JohnnyP

Well, we are speaking of leftists: grownups acting like children. (And not in a good way.)


50 posted on 09/11/2017 6:40:44 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Jim 0216
I guess this is nothing:

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

Regulate commerce means the power to collect duties on imports.

51 posted on 09/11/2017 7:00:52 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jim 0216
And then there is this:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

52 posted on 09/11/2017 7:02:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Again, no Constitutional MANDATE for tariffs.


53 posted on 09/11/2017 9:25:17 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: MeganC

He had a Fed-Ex plane full of supplies and nearly went insane.


54 posted on 09/12/2017 5:53:43 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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