This is a great, relatively informative article. The only issue I see with online civil disobedience is the media spin put on some of it and the largely uninformed public basing their opinions on a few less than related events.

I can't help but notice a sense of pride in your cat killing tally. I've been driving about the same length of time as yourself, have encountered a number of cats in the road during that time, and have easily and safely avoided hitting any of them. Mostly you'll encounter cats in the road in residential areas, in…

yeah, and someone should do something about children. There's always some assholes child running onto the street after some ball. I should just run them over and their parents will learn they shouldn't have let them outside.

If you put a tracker on my dog you would see a 4 foot circle traced over and over again on the kitchen floor looking for crumbs.

Native pollinators pollinated plants before honey bees arrived. But bear in mind, all the fruit you like to eat that is pollinated by honey bees like almonds, stone fruit, citrus, etc...are also not native to North America either. Bees were imported to pollinate old world foods.

Few realize they are European honeybees because they were never native to the Western hemisphere. Not only are the bees living in a non-native part of the world, bees live a totally artificial life as an industrial lifeform. Considering bees in nature are territorial, have a complex life, and do not live in proximity…

"I'm saying that we are debating it on behalf of a false political dichotomy..."

Who ever said "not having a job" = "not doing anything?" People have hobbies, they volunteer, and they do other things that they don't get paid for or have to do. Most people would ideally just do whatever they wanted if they had the money. They'd invest in their hobbies and maybe become great at something because…

I guess I'm not most of us, but that's not too surprising to me. I was out of work for a while too, from last October until this March after a section-wide layoff, and the unemployment insurance, combined with a lack of 35 mile each way commute and the lower gas cost that resulted, covered my rent and basic…

I whole heartedly disagree. I was out of "work" for a year. I had enough in the bank to survive (you know, emergency funds, etc.) and loved every minute of it. I would wake up every day, and do research. I can spend 18 hours a day behind a computer, learning. That is my ideal of heaven. Providing value to…

I know exactly what I'd do if I ever won the lottery: teach at an underserved school. Heck, I could probably get away with doing it now, financially speaking and it'd be a helluva lot more mentally and socially rewarding than the IT job I have now.

thank god they didn't...

Word. They could've had him be the guy who got out of the car at the end. Could've walked up the steps and said, "Spocks," and nodded in their direction and then continued on his way. That'd have been slick.

Bonus points if they could have had Martin Freeman

Okay, that was hilariously awesome.

I almost fell out of my chair laughing when Nimoy started singing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.