I’ll chalk it up to odd writing style, then. It looked like, as seems consistent from your other comments, that you’d like to attribute those issues specifically to the left-wing loonies. This is provably false. That you were referring to left-wing loonies as left-wing loonies is not particularly useful. That your…

I wonder sometimes how the cultural situation in Japan compares and contrasts to the situation in South Korea, and what the root of the differences are. In some ways, South Koreans are more... fanatic about homogeneity, to the point of surgery to make themselves look more similar, not simply to look more attractive.…

Smart isn’t (entirely) genetic. Survival isn’t (entirely) up to the individual and their actions. Conclusions are therefore still indeterminate... we don’t know if we’ll end up (due to social influences, or a population bottleneck via catastrophes) with Morlocks, Idiocracy, Star Trek, a continued great big melting…

This. So much this.

Don’t move your tongue / pretend the front of your tongue no longer exists / is half the length it used to be. Now try.

Yeah, why is this the second time in a high profile case this year that I’ve heard this happen... are jury instructions not damned clear anymore?

Maybe he’d show up to hand out relief supplies / throw out boxes of matches into a crowd?

Not hydraulic, just the drainage from the A/C didn’t actually seem to drain.

Don’t forget the cognitive dissonances (why so many crosses, how do you idolatry?... if nobody can know what God’s plan is, why do the sects all think that they know better than the others?), the yielding to authority figures and double standards for them, the presumption of the moral high ground (you are more beloved…

Who says that they’re all left wing loonies?

Me too, I want more of Cailet. But I’d rather Melanie get to (and be able to stay in) a healthy place first, and get it when she’s ready.

I wish Melanie Rawn the best, though I’d love more on her sun/moon/star light sorcery series... if working on that is what helped push her over, I’ll take whatever else comes out.

Looking at the tone and tenor, it isn’t about winning over that part of the base, it’s about enraging them by pointing the finger at somebody. It would help if that could be done by pointing the finger at the people they’re currently listening to, and associating it with a story that lines up with something closer to…

Try saying it ten times fast...

Executive orders and signing statements... same song, different thread... it didn’t start with Obama, the complaint arose with Bush, although it might be argued that the rise started with either Carter or Reagan.

And nobody wanted to call it Romneycare by that point...

The precedent for executive orders being accepted without challenge was set by the last administration.

I won’t lie, I would vote for Fiona...