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To Stiffle Intelligent Discourse   Recently, I received the
following e-mail with the headline: Subject: Economics 101 Not a
joke!!!!!  Although it supposedly was written by a Ph.D
economist, there's still a part of me that thinks it may be a
joke… or the result of over-consumption of really bad beer.
Here's the article. (My comments, before my real comments after
this story, will be in italics, although that's probably not
necessary.)  Bar Stool Economics   Now you've got to ask what
group of ten men would go out every single day — not night, mind
you — for beer? I could understand if was in the evening for
Jameson Irish Whiskey, but not beer. So I did some research, and
I think I've come up with a representative sample. Check out pic
at right.   The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh
would pay $7. The eighth wou