I like how the American government pays for prisoners' medical bills but not other people.

I'm all in favour of having more than 2 parents. Raising just the one child always seemed pretty tough even with two parents (aside: mad props to single parents). Seems like adding a third parent would make everything easier, including financially. Especially if you were part of a religious group that had a rule that…

A religious man is on top of a roof during a great flood. A man comes by in a boat and says "get in, get in!" The religous man replies, " no I have faith in God, he will grant me a miracle."

No need to apologise, I'm just relieved.

This has to be sarcastic. I refuse to believe otherwise, despite all the internet has taught me during my life.

I went to the 2011 one at the Royal Observatory. Yay for free exhibitions. One of them now adorns my bedroom wall actually. Awesome photos.

I thought Vermont was supposed to be cool. Damn.

We get up to a year in the UK, but not all of it is paid. 6 weeks at 90% of pay, and a further 33 weeks with a payment of £120 a week. Then a futher 13 weeks unpaid if you want (according to wikipedia). I think even that is low. I might move to Sweden just to have kids.

Yeah, I was ready to say that they were different but other than the brands made in Scotland/Ireland, I wouldn't really be able to say that whisky was actually different to whiskey in a significant way.

Yes, obviously better. There's no evidence that aspartame is harmful and a fuckton that sugar is terrible.

If unconditional love produces Chris Brown and conditional love produces Jezebel commenters, I'll opt for the conditional love thanks.

I hear people say Scotch Whisky all the time *shrugs*

...Only 5 months maternity leave? US employment law is a joke.

Generally it would be Scotch whisky and Irish whiskey. They're made in different places, and the spelling is usually different.

Ssh with your reason. It's all due to big pharma/agriculture/food/government/oil.

Should've asked him to justify divorce on Biblical grounds. We basically had to redefine (christian) marriage to accommodate that.

The reason the GOP pushes social issues is because even they realise that it's starting to be a struggle to get poor people to so blatantly vote against their own economic interests. The only way they can identify with their voter base is homophobia and anti-abortion laws.

It's a well known racist idea that black people are intellectually inferior (see: the Bell curve and many others). But yeah, I was using it in a jokey way. I'm not really sure what you mean though.

Pft, and white people think black people are dumb. Black people certainly win this round...

You can't naively assess supposed benefits against supposed negatives; not all of the suppositions are equally valid.