He's a loon, but he's a very, very rich loon who sometimes does cool stuff that entertains us lumpen proletariat types.

"It's not the end of the world, it's just the loss of everything we know"

Of course we should.

I would require a much better firewall system than seems to exist currently.

In Canada, isn't it actually made with (domestic) beet sugar, not (imported) cane sugar?

He seems like a nice guys and all, but why should we really care what the Dalai Lama says? He's just some pseudo-hereditary religious leader, after all.

I already have one willy.

There are always environmental impacts from energy extraction, and they are often greater than theorized by people pushing their favorite ideas.

Once they are people, then they get rights. It's simple, really.

Men who are public jerks to women don't get beaten senseless nearly often enough, anymore.

I'll go see this, because it sounds like a fun action flick.

Well, the headline is all sorts of not-right, even if cognitive dissonance is hilarious.

"Can technology help us put an end to animal experimentation?"

9/11 style attacks simply don't matter (you know, except to the people they actually directly affect), unless they happen constantly. The US could survive having several cities nuked without much worse effects than the '08 economic crash, really. Probably take longer to recover, but since we don't actually seem to be…

Non-morons already knew this.

" and the local militias rise"

I thought everyone already knew we were covered with and permeated by, zillions of horribly tiny bugs. Hell, we can;t even digest food w/o our bacteria slave armies....

Wow, I can really tell how old I am when the history of soda and soda fountains is presented as a sort of "secret history", as opposed to quotidian common knowledge.

I think the "informed consent" argument is monumentally ludicrous.

This headline is plastered all over the internet, but if it in any way actually represents the findings of the researchers, then those researchers must have been raised in hermetically sealed boxes, isolated from reality.