I bet he’s pretty sure:

But you don’t have to watch all of those any more than you have to watch all 162 games your favorite baseball team plays, right?

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They did.

"Now THAT'S what I'm talking about"

Cucumber isn't normally included, but it's not unheard of

I once had an idea in college to slap a Heineken sticker on a keg of whatever trash beer we'd gotten for a house party (Beast or Natty Light, usually) just to see how many people would comment favorably on the beer. I regret never trying this experiment.

Assuming you weren't pulling for or fighting with the Ottomans, you mean.

"What's Behind the Spike in Saudi Beheadings," Al Jazeera, September 2, 2014. That's our Saudi ally.

Can you actually articulate what a "Medieval approach" is?

There is no Arabic-English dictionary on Earth wherein "fitnah" (discord, affliction) is defined as ""disbelief" or "disbelief and worshipping [sic] of others along with Allah."

Yeah, that's bad, but it's not really what I was asking about. I'm particularly wondering about people being *required* to do stuff like "march in a gay pride parade," because I'm pretty sure this is one of those things that religious folks *just know* happens all the time, even though it actually never happens.

Has anything like that ever actually happened?

Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan is meant as a philosophical thought experiment. On his own, Hayy develops pure reason, and later when he finally comes into contact with civilization he realizes that he was able to learn the same Truths that most people have to hear about from a holy man (because they lack the capacity to reason for…

Turkey and Greece are both NATO members (also Spain and Portugal). Ukraine is not.

In Iraq? Ah, no. Not even close, actually.

+1

I really have to give this comment it's due. I think your right.

"Tommy, have you looked into the facts of this issue?"