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01/19/13, 13:53
Neill deGrasse Tyson has the patience of a humble, reasonable human being. |  | Tim Heideker recounts being stabbed
12/08/12, 12:59
Before and after I watch anything that's supposed to be funny, it's so good to know I can come here to find out what comedy is and isn't, why it was created, and how it works. | | Michelle Obama Speech to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte NC
09/05/12, 18:28
Damn. Get rid of the space between to- and be- | | Michelle Obama Speech to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte NC
09/05/12, 18:25
"Good Evening, It's An Honor To Be Used As A Political Prop By My Husband's Campaign"
http://www.theonion.com/articles/good-evening-its-an-honor-to-be-used-as-a-politica,29437/ | | Crony Chronicles: I Want To Be A Crony
08/26/12, 22:27
baleen,
Godwin: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
Desc: "Vile Nazi children campaign against a bunch of stuff."
It's okay. We all overreact now and again. | | Crony Chronicles: I Want To Be A Crony
08/26/12, 14:52
Godwin in the desc. Impressive! | | The Most Polite Attack Ad In History
08/18/12, 02:36
If you work at a medical marijuana dispensary, your coworkers are correct.
Or if they're government whistle blowers. Or if they're undocumented immigrants.
Otherwise, some issues he's been as bad as Bush, some issues he's been better. But on just a few has he been worse. | | 24 Hours After Hiroshima
07/29/12, 03:38
These opinions are interesting.-------------
"During [Secretary of War Henry Stimson's] recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings: first, on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly, because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'" --Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.... My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages...wars cannot be won by destroying women and children." --Fleet Adm. William Leahy, Chief of Staff to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman
"It would be a mistake to suppose that the fate of Japan was settled by the atomic bomb. Her defeat was certain before the first bomb fell." --Winston Churchill
"The real purpose of building the bomb was to subdue the Soviets." -- Gen. Leslie Groves, chief of the Manhattan Project | | Sarah Silverman has a proposition for Sheldon Adelson
07/17/12, 15:04
No one could reasonably argue with anyone who didn't find this (or anything else) funny, but most professional comics would really like it if people who were never, ever paid to make other people laugh would shut the fuck up about what is or isn't "good comedy." | | Penn's Obama Rant
05/22/12, 20:17
Last comment, I promise.
Bort, the reason why Obama and the Democrats can behave essentially the same way as the Bush administration (and often, worse) on a variety of issues, is because they can count on the votes of people who think there is no other path to goodness than to support the serial murderer with the lower body count.
meme, the video is about pot. If it had been about assassinating people (no matter what their citizenship), the same conversation would be essentially the same. When it comes to foreign policy and civil rights, Democrats are basically neocons, now. | | Penn's Obama Rant
05/22/12, 17:29
Sure, baleen, you'll get over it. But being compassionate means seeing beyond yourself. Not everyone has a friend's backyard and some people use MM not for their dad's back pain, but because of chronic pain, or chemo, or glaucoma.
And, sure, some people selling MM aren't "good people" (however baleen chooses to define that), but does that mean you get to shrug your shoulders at all the people who are good whose lives are destroyed by Obama's policies?
It's funny how the more reflexively people try to pretend that Obama isn't really all that bad (or that he's not nearly as bad as magicians who obnoxiously subject their opinions to people who hit "play"), the more conservative they sound in their attitudes towards suffering people.
And sure, you can "be patient," because you don't need MM, your MM establishment hasn't been destroyed by feds, you're not a whistle blower or an innocent terror suspect or a peasant in Yemen whose village is getting cluster bombs rained down upon it.
It's easy to be patient when your biggest concern is whether or not the person in the White House who's actively involved in the destruction of innocent lives is a Republican or a Democrat. The people whose lives are being destroyed don't really care. | | Penn's Obama Rant
05/22/12, 14:50
It doesn't really matter if you "think" Obama is "commanding the Justice Department to close down medical marijuana." What matters is that it's doing it with his approval and that it would stop if he wanted it to. What matters is that he said he would do the opposite of what he's doing in regards to medical marijuana (and in regards to whistle blowers, waging war, state secrets, lobbyists, etc.). It really doesn't matter that people you consider to be "less than legitimate" were making more money than you think they should because it became easier to buy marijuana. What matters is that very legitimate people have had their lives destroyed because of Obama's flip-flop on this. Suggesting that this is no big deal because it will all be eventually worked out in the bureaucracy indicates a rather conservative level of compassion for the people who are negatively affected by Obama's policies. | | Penn's Obama Rant
05/22/12, 12:48
Right...but at least he's not a hypocrite who's raiding medical marijuana dispensaries (i.e. destroying state-approved businesses and making it harder for sick and dying people to safely find the medicine that works for them) at higher rates than Bush did.
And...yeah! Shut up stupid, loud magician criticizing hypocritical authoritarians! | | Karl Rove: Let's Get This Done
01/23/12, 19:48
ignore that "all time" as it is inaccurate and silly. | | Karl Rove: Let's Get This Done
01/23/12, 19:47
Rove is scum, but 12 out of the top 20 all time political donors for the last 23 years are unions. So, yeah, "big labor."
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A
| | Overruled: Government Invasion of your Parental Rights
12/29/11, 00:41
I think what says nearly everything about whether or not the practice of homeschooling should be allowed is the profoundly personal nature of how we choose to educate our kids. It's every bit as personal as the religion (or lack thereof) we choose for them or the food we give them. I think it's wrong to raise a child to believe they'll go to hell for defying the god of their parents' choosing. But I believe just as strongly that this terrible practice shouldn't be prohibited by the state, mostly because any attempt to do so can only devolve into totalitarianism.
I do think that if a parent wants to homeschool their child, but the child prefers public school, as long as there are no safety issues, the child's choice should win out.
Any time a kid is having negative experiences in their education, whether that happens at home or at school, something is wrong and needs to be addressed, but that rarely happens. Even if your wife was forced by the state to go to school, she would still have been inundated with the nonsense her parents were forcing on her. I went to public school, but because of my religious upbringing, I didn't believe that evolution was a fact until the year after I'd graduated.
Another thing which says a lot about whether or not homeschooling should be allowed is the objective fact that there are many, many kids who learn more and are much happier than they were at public school. I've argued with homeschooling advocates who make the claim that public school is a bad choice for all kids, which is as demonstrably untrue as the claim that it's good for all kids. Kids learn in different ways. Finding the way that works best for each kid and going with that is the only way to guarantee that real learning is going to occur.
Thank you for your patience. | | Overruled: Government Invasion of your Parental Rights
12/28/11, 20:52
I agree that I shouldn't have used any numbers as it does muddle the point up. But, since I did, I should clarify that there are between 1.5 and 2 million kids homeschooling in the U.S. alone. But that doesn't really matter. Needless to say, lots and lots of kids have been and are being successfully homeschooled all over the world.
If someone uses an example (or even multiple examples) of public schools treating kids badly and failing to educate them as evidence that public schools should be banned, it's reasonable to point out the fact that public schools work great for millions of kids, and that bad behavior by a minority of schools is no reason to deny those kids the kind of education that works best for them. | | Overruled: Government Invasion of your Parental Rights
12/28/11, 19:07
So homeschooling worked for you and your brother, it's worked for millions of kids and is working for millions presently, but because some homeschooling parents indoctrinate their kids, it should be banned? I'm confused. | | Journalist Arrested for Filming Public Meeting
06/26/11, 02:43
Doesn't look like the guys arrested were doing anything illegal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-were-two-reporters-arrested-for-covering-dc-cab-commission-meeting/2011/06/23/AGtKl3hH_story.html | | Journalist Arrested for Filming Public Meeting
06/26/11, 02:35
What has reason.tv done that's "bullshit?" I mean, what have they done that's dishonest, as opposed to what positions regarding the proper role of government have they taken which don't agree with yours.
I mean, I don't agree with them on lots of things, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't get treated like other journalists. | |
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