Beth, yes, your position is, in fact, both sexist and harmful.

Excuse me, Beth?

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I find your response to Ginger fascinating. I am very interested in your thinking process. Let’s see...You started by referring to “Obama’s wars”. Then Ginger came along and correctly pointed out that the wars were started under a different president. An intelligent response would have been either a) Gee, I guess you…

These are morning glory clouds.

Long term kava drinkers do have issues like flaky skin, dying livers.

Yep, I learned exactly where my liver was the morning after a kava binge. It was not happy with me. Also, if you drink it daily for years, it will eventually make your skin flake white stuff.

George,

SS-AA-FF-EE-TT-YY

As long as it pees in the correct direction, it should get there sooner.

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I live on a mountain in Arizona, so when all the accumulated debris piles up around your waist, and you earthquake residents look up and shout “Save us!”, I’ll look down and whisper “No.”

You use very orthogonal arguments.

Yes, I agree and I think the extra clicks are a good thing. I was just pointing out that a certain celebrity with a bow-tie was not the one who did the actual work nor should he be celebrated for it or be promoted as if it were his idea. This is like when it rubs me the wrong way when a post-doc makes some discovery…

Piss-Wiz,

Please don’t call it “Bill Nye’s” solar sail. He had very little to do with it except basking in the press attention. The previous head of the Planetary Society, Lou Friedman, was the one responsible for making this happen and the design was done long before “The Science Guy” jumped into the spot light.

Rubbish.

Yes, as I posted several other places in this thread that you can read, it is considered rude elsewhere. That was the point - cultures differ and adapting between them can be hard.

Make stuff up often? I lived in Vava'u and that absolutely is a Polynesian canoe. It is called a popao and is used there and Ha'apai exactly as we would use a canoe - for small inter-island trips and fishing. This picture of the dual sail craft that you put up is a "Kalia" in Tongan. They are no longer made anywhere…

Well, maybe you always do put the bar down for the reason you state, I wouldn't know. If so, that's very generous of you. I know I have caught myself putting the bar down because I was in a rush to get somewhere and wanted to maximize the chances that I got through the store in the minimum time. Also, I recall putting…