If someone hasn't already mentioned it, I highly recommend JeeJa Yanin in Prachya Pinkaew's Chocolate. She plays an autistic, poor kid that essentially beats the ever livin' shit out almost everyone in Thailand just to save her mother and her bother who have been kidnapped by a mob boss.

"Scientists discovered this One Weird Trick for eradicating Smallpox!"

Tax cuts cost the government money. The rest of us have to pay for the shortfall left behind when tax cuts are passed. And, hell, that's just tax cuts that actually get passed by Congress, we're not even getting into loopholes and tax evasion methods (only available to the rich) that blow more holes in the…

A tax break is a special rule that reduces the tax liability of an entity... so, yes, it is functionally a targeted government subsidy. If the results are not in the public interest, such an exception is effectively taking money from public goods to give it to a private entity.

Other scientific discoveries as told by Tom Coburn:

Science is a massive game of "working on one thing and discovering something else", In the interest of Mr. Coburn's growing prostate, I hope we can keep it up.

The difference is that $100 billion dollars in graft to military contractors is fine because WE CAN NEVER NOT SPEND TOO MUCH FOR DA TROOPS! while $10K to scientists is all part of the liberal Big Science juggernaut trying to slay god and make everyone gay hippies. Or something.

It's such a popular method of doing things these days- leave in a little bit of information, count on the fact that people won't look things up, because, unfortunately, a lot of times they won't. Drives me crazy.

Is anyone else watching Over The Garden Wall? Can we talk about how wonderful and refreshing this show is? Not to mention terrifying and emotionally tormenting.

What he said was that God is not a demiurge, which is a Gnostic concept of a false deity that obsesses with the material universe. I believe that more informed sources used the more apt comparison: "God is not a magician".

"The God of Scripture who can do anything" vs "And most importantly, God does not change." Two completely contradictory statements in the same paragraph. No wonder you can't argue any sense into these people.