Did nobody else want to point out the massive irony of describing Wiki as a biased source and backing it up with a quote from NaturalNews, one of the least trustworthy sources on the internet?
Will our lives be better if there were no religion? Unlikely: even without religion, people will continue to prefer to believe what they want irrespective of whether the evidence contradicts.. religious thinking, whether there's an organized religion behind it.
Who knows, at some point maybe...
I guess a lot depends on your experience: I'm guessing you've never had the experience of someone flip when something they couldn't handle came on the TV. Would it make you feel better about it if the rationale behind their broadcast was indemnity insurers trying to avoid the broadcaster being...
What.. children molest gays?
A very similar scenario happened to an acquaintance, the chap is happily married with children and the little Billy equivalent didn't need a gay teacher to accuse, the accusation was enough. Your story is equally apposite for a heterosexual scout leader - seems to...
Given that Ross Perot started up possibly the most unethical software services company in the world, I found his moralizing distasteful in the extreme. I will declare a conflict of interest here: were it not for EDS's lying & lack of any kind of moral standards, I'd be a wealthy sort of chap...
Maybe you ought to find out what trigger warnings are before you decry them? Just be thankful you don't need them, and try to recognize that while the number of people affected is fairly small in percentage terms, they can be actually quite important for that number of people.
..but blaming...
..and when a white guy ignores all apects of his cherry-picked selection of incidents other than skin colour, that has no racist motive whatsoever.
Got it.
A few years ago when his thesis was put on wikileaks, it inspired this: http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/marypoppinssoundtrack30.shtml
You say "he isn't stupid".. IMHO, there's a special kind of stupidity for people with a modicum of intellect who direct it based on ignorance or even in...
It's hard to understand how Trump considers this even remotely presidential..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/02/heres-how-donald-trump-responded-to-my-essay-about-him/
..to the extent that I'd actually find it easier to believe that it was somebody from the Trump...
..whereas over here, we have to make do with the occasional (Freudian?) spoonerism for Jeremy Hunt the Culture Secretary (or an unfortunate slip of the tongue when suggesting to Farage that UKIP is a personality cult). It's frightfully genteel in comparison
Because you said:
..and that kind of "active opposition" requires a federal government getting involved in small things.
Have to admit, I find the whole militarization of police over there bizarre and full of macho silliness.. but given that you chaps elect police chiefs and the like, why not...
Hell, no.. Though I guess it depends on your definition of "worse".. Galloway's in a class of his own for massively over-inflated ego, absolute conviction of his own rectitude irrespective of any facts and tendency to bully and browbeat anyone who tries to speak against him. Farage is a...
Wouldn't that be federal government interfering with things that are state level?
I'd have thought you'd have wanted a president who left state business to the states rather than interfered.
..or is it only that you want smaller government when they're doing something you don't like?
I realize it's comedy/satire, but I'm trying to think of any of the Colbert Report shows I've seen where there are lies, distortion, browbeating of interviewees such that they don't get a chance to get their point across (especially when the interviewer feels he's being bested). If you were to...
Fox "News" is an intentionally deceptive organization: less than half their news-formatted output is actual news, the rest is "opinion" and they have said on multiple occasions that opinion pieces don't need to have any relation to truth or accuracy. This lets them get away with truly surreal...
The first company I worked for, their first server was named "Mother" by a sysadmin with a sense of humour
It was generally OK, until someone walked into a training room (it was a computer training company) & said in front of a class of customers "Mother went down on me again last night"
Congratulations for being the one to actually bring evidence to an opinionated discussion :)
Technically it would be possible for most paedophiles to be gay, yet four times as many girls to be victims (e.g. if heterosexual paedophiles are many times as prolific in their abuse), but I'm not...