See, I've never seen a society including more than 2 or 3 people where a complete lack of authority was possible. Any time you get a few people together, someone's going to get their rights infringed upon, and there needs to be a mediating system in place, which requires someone to mediate, which is a position of…

Dude, you need to re-read my comment. Seriously. I didn't ask about atheism I asked about anarchy. I said atheism made sense to me.

Don't we have someone named Franken-something around here who can post a relevant response about being made of humans? Or someone named Soylent something?

Alternately, religion was a good way to get some money if you were poor, or get some authority if you could read the Bible and they couldn't.

Dude! You could just provide the link, not half the article...

Excellent point.

I tend to have arguments with *any* brand of evangelicalism, theist or atheist. I blame advertising. It gave people the idea that they somehow had a right to be heard by everyone else all the time, which is obnoxious.

Are you really an anarchist? I get being an atheist (it makes the same sort of sense as being a theist, in that you have to pick one or the other) - but anarchy doesn't seem like a pleasant concept to me. Minimal government, yes, but none at all? Is that really practicable?

But it's such a weird word! The more you use it, the less meaning it seems to have. It starts sounding like someone dragging laundry down the stairs. Thug. Thug. Thug. Crunch. Whups... that was mom's favorite vase...

When I hear "thug" my childhood image that comes to mind is of a slightly sunburnt, muscle-bound goon with tiny little eyes and a shaved head wearing overalls whose fists make a "thud" noise when they hit someone. But there's a second picture next to it which comes from exposure to modern media, and that one is a very…

Excellent, excellent comment. Thank you.

Ok, so I used the term "general society" above without specifying what that meant and what assumptions I was shortcutting with the term. No matter your color, inside your own neighborhood, your group of friends and family and acquaintances, your use of terminology is understood. Any person of any color who lives a…

Annnnd the entire top portion of my jezebel page is pink comments. Some of which I want to respond to and correct but which would then unpink.

If I had time I'd be writing every day. Instead, I'm studying.

Ahhh, Gizmodo. Never change.

Hi! I love your books. They're so true to the atmosphere of the time, instead of being modern morality plays in old-fashioned stays.

hello neighbor! I've got Dexter fanfic over there (from years ago, though).

You fail to understand how major companies can add layers of paperwork to any project, no matter how simple; and the American way of life involves lawsuits as a matter fo course. We'd end up with lawsuits - not from someone getting accidentally shot on the job, but from ergonomics complaints of poorly fitted holsters.

...Then we'd need training on the guns. And some of the folks in my office building would need *acres* of kevlar. I don't think they make vests that big.

We have regular exercises in our office building just like fire drills, where we're supposed to pretend someone is in or near the building with a gun. At the last one of these there was a long discussion on ways to use our office supplies as methods of self-defense. My personal favorite was when we compiled the list…