Accidental death carnivory should definitely get a pass imo.

I love living in a country where people are trying so hard to live here. It has to be better than living in one where they are fleeing. Xenophobes will be xenophobes, I guess, but I'm glad foreigners want to come here, that they compete to come here. It seems that's been happening for a while. They just keep…

The way their propaganda machine spins, any law with the letters U.N. attached to it simply has to be downvoted by Republicans. Their constituents would freak out. They've got them whipped into a frenzy, feeding into that NWO conspiracy paranoia. No signs of things slowing down either.

Asshole: also not a thing (according to the DSM-V). lol. Cause =/= excuse. Of course it's up to the individual whether or not to hate people for being "assholes". Psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, etc. actually have to find reasons for behavior.

"Hate to spoil the party here..." Classic.

Exactly. I can't believe how often this is conflated.

Those are most of the stories in the Library, the ones that never happened. You didn't know?

And somewhere, deep in the stacks of the Dreaming library lies a book containing future, yet unwritten Hostess pastry recipes. Perhaps in another universe, those recipes are being utilized by a Hostess company that never closed shop, but in our world we are left with naught but dreams of what cakes there might have…

I disagree. I don't think that "charity" should be unequivocally praised regardless of motive. I don't blindly support every supposedly charitable cause out there. Charity should be scrutinized, because of the potential for abuse. You say that my statement is a false choice (I assume), but I say that it is true by…

It doesn't matter what people on the internet find funny. That is irrelevant. Again, the intentions of both parties were openly communicated by their actions, and more importantly in the context of a society that understands that the hobo jackets were exploitative (why not just give them regular jackets?) and that…

It's part of the douchebag conspiracy. The douchebags only step forward to defend, when they are sure he's one of their own.

Agreed. I don't see how that is even an argument against what he did. So what if it was staged? (Something I doubt.) Aren't all of the ways we behave in public staged to a degree? That man was wearing a policeman's uniform. Is it really that appalling that he would behave in such a way to bring some honor to that…

It's easier to know people's intentions when they freely communicate them. I don't think that the intentions of the guys giving away shirts are in question. This officer has given no indication that his intentions were the same. As a matter of fact, it seems obvious that he had no intent of his actions even being…

Speaking of humors, I consider Aristotle to be a good example of one of these types of thinkers. Most of his conclusions were wrong, but his ideas were systematic enough to be systematically challenged and tested by later thinkers. Eventually, when medieval scholars stopped using Aristotle as an endless appeal to…

When I said Gulf of Mexico, I was referring to Texas

The earliest thinkers on a subject are always the risk-takers; they are most at risk of being wrong, and they often are. In my opinion, they are still an important part of the process.

Oil: making powerful, influential billionaires out of backwards, uncouth barbarians since the 19th century from the Gulf of Mexico to the Persian Gulf.

Funny, for Republicans Maverick = crazy enough to actually cave in to rational thought from time to time.

I looked up to him, then, and still do.

God really needs to get some better PR people at least.