Left Hand's pilsner - Polestar - is quite good. Along with New Belgium's Blue Paddle and Schell's Pils, it's one of the best widely available American pilsners.

Not when the fascists are in power!

Why should someone who organizes an event be held criminally liable for the actions of people they cannot control?

That's fair. He is bombastic about it, to be sure. And there's not a lick of humility to him.

Toby Ornotoby?

Liberalism vs conservatism. While there's a lot of overlap between liberalism and progressivism, the latter is just as happy with restricting rights if it leads to progress, whereas liberals will err on the side of preserving rights - the prohibition movement, for example, was tightly entwined with the progressive…

Finding ozone would perhaps indicate the presence of a molten iron core, but more importantly, it would indicate the presence of life, so that would indeed be a major discovery.

My point is pretty simple: the orbital definition arbitrarily places like objects in different classes in a way that the intrinsic definition does not. I have yet to hear a good explanation of why the orbital definition is as good as the intrinsic definition, let alone superior.

"First, because not only has Pluto not cleared it's orbit of planetoids, but it's orbit is also disturbed by another planet (Neptune). Two, the perturbation is significant enough that Pluto's orbit is chaotic, and we have not yet been able to prove that it is even stable (Pluto may potentially be 'captured' by…

It's not mentioned because it's not something we are able to detect from this distance … yet.

You'll need to take that up with the planetary scientists making the proposal. The IAU definition is pretty flawed. The "clears its orbit" criterion depends more on the location of a body than the intrinsic qualities of the planet itself - Earth wouldn't clear its orbit if it were as far out as Pluto.

In fairness, it wasn't clear at the time just how close we really got to armageddon.

He was right to stand up for them. He just didn't do it well. The correct response is that the problem is fundamentalism of any stripe.

So you don't want to try to change their mind?

Have it face to face and treat the other person like a human being.

I don't think that's entirely fair. He routinely talks about empowering moderate muslims, and points out that US muslims are not the problem. His position is that Islam is in need of a reformation, much like middle ages Christianity. He doesn't advocate war in the middle east, nor does he support any sort of…

Any ethos that includes the belief that [principle of your choice] is more important than life itself is potentially dangerous and damaging. Of course, we all have something that we consider worth dying for, be it human rights, faith, or the Double Barrel burger at Red Cow. In the end, we all need to remember that…

“Recognizing Pluto as a ‘planet’ means we have to promote about 40-something other known objects to “planet” as well, which is just not at all useful.”

That’s not how the classification works, though. “Dwarf planet” as currently defined is not a type of planet, despite the name making it sound like one. According to the current definition, Rocky planets, gas giants, and ice giants are all classes of planets, whereas Dwarf planets are a separate class of celestial…

The problem is that “clearing the neighborhood” is more a function of WHERE an object is than WHAT it is. If Earth were in orbit at the same distance as Pluto, it wouldn’t clear its orbit either. It seems to me that the definition should based on the body’s intrinsic qualities. “Clearing the neighborhood” is not an…