There are also, believe it or not, successful people who believe the world is secretly controlled by Reptilians. I had a dear friend who was so fixated on the male-dominated objectification of women she finally couldn't leave the house because she feared being raped and murdered. Were her news sources to blame?

Interesting thing to note:

Wouldn't it be easier just to list the things that AREN'T sleazy and rapey?

Networking? Not on my watch. Humanity will never learn...

Works for three hours? How very down-to-earth. What exactly is "cushy"?

I would insist on being called "Gozer the Destructor" and yes you have to say the whole damn thing every time.

I think it has less to do with the need to mock as the inability not to.

I wish Joe would have let Mika say whatever it was she was pushing about. That really annoyed me that she couldn't speak up during that exchange.

Jethro may have had the fancy book learnin and cipherin, but old folks had all the wisdom!

I think a lot of it depends on where the message comes from, and the quality of voice. If it is the protagonist, that's pretty easy. He's a racist protagonist, that's his flaw. If the overall voice of the narrative is saturated with it, then normally I can rationalize it as I am hearing the story from the point of…

It would be bad I guess if they aspired to national politics, but looking at this guy, I'm thinking not. If he just wants to lounge away for a while as a state rep and then go off into business or law or the clergy or something back in Jonesborough, it's a win.

I don't believe many bills of this kind are ever intended to pass. Many lawmakers are between a rock and a hard place. He can either represent his constituents and lose, or not represent them and lose. Should elected officials not represent their constituents?

You said some beliefs are "wrong", so I was conversing with you. In my opinion absolute right and wrong IS the topic at hand, or at least it's the elephant in the room that no one wants to acknowledge.

Paddling was allowed when I was in school and it was completely useless as a deterrent. If you paddle hard enough to actually make kids fear it, it's physically damaging and you'll get sued, or worse, the kid's parent will come and paddle you. If you don't paddle hard enough, they laugh at you.

This is just another sneaky way to get me to start going to the gym again, isn't it...

Now THIS is a real estate opportunity!!

People say I overcook poultry, but honestly it's just a Pavlovian reaction now. What most people call perfectly cooked makes me gag a little. I watch the ooze come out of game hens and stuff they make on Top Chef and I really feel ill.

Do people really eat this much undercooked chicken? I really wonder if it is chicken, or the ton of completely uncooked vegetables we eat. I don't know anyone that eats chicken rare, but at the same time I know lots of people who are lazy about cleaning their produce.

Yep, I totally did. As in "a system of symbols", in this case the system spread out over all the different cultures. Take that, Smeker!!

We have a natural sense of right and wrong, possibly, but it's completely subjective. It ends up being about what the majority of us agree on. Humans overwhelmingly believe the holocaust was wrong. Few agree exactly on whether things like violence on TV is wrong.