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I can see her turing into a bat in a fit of pique -- mid-reading -- and flying out the window.

Rand reading The Abolition of Man?

I'm surprised her head didn't explode: like confronting a Vampire with a crucifix.

And to YMix's point, noted Canadian philosopher, Neil Peart, summed it up wisely: You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice, If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill, I will choose a path that's clear, I will c...

Those statements are either True or False, propositionally speaking. Select one: [1] True [2] False [3] Don't know/Don't have proof either way/I'll look into this one of these days But that's the problem: if you have 40,000 manuscripts to cross-reference for the New Testament, and only 400 to relat...

Those statements are either True or False, propositionally speaking. Select one: [1] True [2] False [3] Don't know/Don't have proof either way/I'll look into this one of these days But that's the problem: if you have 40,000 manuscripts to cross-reference for the New Testament, and only 400 to relat...

How do you guys even know of the texts are reliable? A good question, but it works either way. Either the text is unreliable or you accept the text and it is still possible to interpret any number of ways. Hypothetically you could even take a faith position towards the text that it is the %100 lite...

How do you guys even know of the texts are reliable?

Follow up from the 95% CI thing, from the far-right neocon rag, The Economist.

http://www.economist.com/news/science-a ... -emissions

The lure wasn't meant to catch the fish, it was meant to catch the fisherman.


How on earth is the ACA going to reduce demand?



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There's your answer.

Saw a tweet this morning --- ~14 years out, we are approaching the 95% CI on the initial hockey schtick predictions.

To paraphrase Alph --> when you make 10 predictions and only five come true, is that "Science"?

I can't wait for a higher minimum wage so that aggregate wage levels rise and large corporations can send my remaining work to India and add to their already obscene hoarding of cash. True story. One flaw. Most of those jobs are service oriented like gas station attendant or waitress. When the wait...

I can't wait for a higher minimum wage so that aggregate wage levels rise and large corporations can send my remaining work to India and add to their already obscene hoarding of cash.

The joke on twitter is that he finally stopped smoking.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65730000/jpg/_65730922_oleary1hr.jpg Our earliest forefather, which lived about 200,000 years after the demise of dinosaurs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21350900 Listed as a "hypothetical placental ancestor" in the article. http://ww...

Now Nugent is on P. Morgan's show -- claiming that of the ~80 shooting deaths a day, 70-something are committed by people who should be behind bars (felons?).

Is that number right?

Oh, and genuflect J.J. Abrams for prison raping the Star Trek franchise.

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I'd be interested in what's cheaper --- a cop in every school, or the litigation/enforcement/incarceration costs of banning SA weapons in America. The usual capitalists' arguments! :evil: :evil: :evil: It's not a matter of what is cheaper, but what is right. As far as I remember there were no shoot...

I'd be interested in what's cheaper --- a cop in every school, or the litigation/enforcement/incarceration costs of banning SA weapons in America.

Then there's the small matter of amending the Constitution.

Let's be honest with ourselves for one second: The notion that a bureaucracy is in any position to meaningfully addressing random acts by unhinged people is crap . You can make a logical argument that banning all but "single-shot" firearms in America would, in fact, slow down the process o...