Cloning in particular doesn’t work like that (or like evolution). It also doesn’t work like this:

Being skeptical about mental health research is one thing. Pronouncing your own obviously uninformed opinion to be better than theirs on a subject on which you are completely unfamiliar is another. Try learning more.

You need to actually read up on what prolonged solitary confinement does to people. You clearly don’t understand anything about solitary. Protracted solitary confinement is essentially a form of torture. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fro…

Just because you hold elections doesn’t make you a democracy. Israel holds elections, but I am not sure if we can properly call it a democracy while millions of people under its control have no real democratic voice over their treatment. The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza have continued for almost 50 years with…

There are verses to Margaritaville?

Strange to me that both the Belgian and Dutch jets have English writing on them (although maybe that was a safe compromise for the Belgians).

This is part of a very serious national problem. Police officers are being taught that tasers are basically risk-free tools to get compliance out of people they’ve arrested. As such, they are used very casually and with little provocation. An Amnesty International study revealed that one-third of taser usages were for…

I don’t think Portman is way off in terms of resemblance.

There are people who legit believe that re-marrying after divorce is a continuing (and thus unforgivable) sin because your spouse is still out there, whereas murdering your spouse is a one- time event and is thus forgivable. Essentially, you can’t repent of a sin that you’re continuing to engage in, but you can repent…

If he’s right, I REALLY misunderstood Contracts in law school!

So, you don’t remember the scene in Mean Girls where she takes her sweater off and her shirt comes with it? You don’t remember the scene on 30 Rock where she poses for fake-pregnancy pictures to cover for Avery? You somehow have a deep sense of Tina Fey, but are unfamiliar with maybe a dozen times when she has gotten…

Diets look a little like religion because they often serve as way for people to avoid distasteful ideas and embrace comforting ones of dubious validity. It is unpleasant to believe that the universe is ordered chaos, that much of the hardship we go through is meaningless noise, that our lives have no more meaning that…

I don’t understand why people are so down on the Two Towers. Sure there were eye candy CGI battles, but the film and Andy Serkis give us probably the only improvement on the books: the Gollum/Smeagol conflict is heightened and dramatized in such a compelling way. Gollum/Smeagol is notable in film history as probably…

It’s definitely not just the title.

Just no.

Men are surrounded by object lessons in how they can still be successful and powerful, no matter how they look. Women have . . . the opposite experience.

You get -100 points for claiming that Amy Schumer and Louis CK are somewhere on the same spectrum of body types.

I think it’s more for the mold and mildew that was the subject of last week’s missive.

Traveling in the mideast, I discovered that high class restrooms have basically a gooseneck, like you might wash your dishes with, affixed to the toilet. I was too timid to try it for fear of ending up walking through the Dubai airport with soaked pants, but I could see how that would be a pretty awesome fix. I’d want…

Is Tina Fey her Obi-Wan?