His voice is aural honey.

Has the word war actually been used? Putin is implying that he has no connection to what's going on in eastern Ukraine (unlike the action in the Crimea), that this is just people standing up for what they want. Regardless, all the other airlines kept flying over Ukrainian airspace, so I don't think it's fair to blame…

The separatists are looting, not the local people.

Apparently when the plane was coming down, people were seen tumbling out "like out of a bucket". There's plenty of debris down there. I find this picture to be so sad:

The Russians aren't that gullible, despite the heavy propaganda:

Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's national security and defence council, said rebels were now taking away all evidence of the disaster that had been gathered by emergency workers. "They [emergency workers] are working under an armed threat," he said.

Following reports about attempts to use victims' credit cards, Dutch banks said that they were taking "preventive measures" and that any losses suffered by relatives of the dead would be paid back. DeTelegraaf newspaper said: "The government must make clear to the world that we are beside ourselves with rage."

It's not the local people who are looting, it's the separatists.

Are the rest of us who exchange services for money reduced to those services, or is it just sex workers?

I love him deeply because he calls out misogynist bullshit, but I can't help but feel I'm giving him a cookie for being a decent, rational human being.

When I think of the amount of happiness each can bring, I think that's a good trade!

Yeah, but generally once you have a human you can't get rid of it. The argument goes that a dog is an optional extra, a luxury. Kibble is made of meat and so has a large carbon footprint. I'll still have a dog when I'm in a good position to do so, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a dog, but it's good to know the…

AMEN.

Actually, scores on IQ tests are still rising, just not as much as they used to. Check out the Flynn Effect.

Yay! Lets have a child arms race!

I think you're being unfair, it's a well-known antinatalist argument.

Environmentally, dogs are bad news. One medium-sized dog has a bigger carbon footprint than an SUV...

So he self-defined as not stupid, yet wasn't smart enough to understand regression toward the mean and the actual research showing that smart biological parents don't have smarter kids than not smart parents, all other things being equal.

Maybe it's an Aperol Sprizz?

Yeah, this article supports the European stereotype of Americans as prudish and puritanical. Nacktkultur is a cool word, but an even better term (in my opinion!) is Frei Koerper Kultur - free body culture.