Thank you. You get it. That's exactly the point some many people miss. There is simply innate comfort and ease that is felt on an unconscious level. I have lived out of the States for that last 10 years; in London, Berlin and Toronto. I do not experience this anywhere but in America.

Eh, Boston is not that bad — those commentators seem to have their heads stuck in the 1950s.

dude, boston? LOL

Yup. You want to see how tolerant Berkeley really is, do one tiny thing that will fuck with property values. Then step back, fast.

Which is why I prefer Oakland, thank you very much. Hell on earth is Whole Foods or REI in Berkeley on a Saturday afternoon.

No offense, truly, but the fact that Boston is on your list of cities with positive race relations lets me know how poor your awareness of the situation is.

As I remarked in another comment on this post, Berkeley CA is one of the most intolerant cities in which I've ever lived — despite public perception.

...uh, you do know I'm a Texan, right? You do know I went to school at UT and was a member of the capitol press corps? Oh, and I did my graduate work at another Texas university in government and political science? Uh huh. I thought not.

Why is spring?

Sorry but there's no intelligent discourse with people whose opinion is "My sky friend told me you shouldn't do that".

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Actually, they didn't do so well at genocide, especially compared with many other countries. Native Americans have been decimated, the indigenous populations of the Caribbean islands and much of Central and South America have also suffered eradication. Look what's happened in Africa (the Sudan, Rwanda) or to the…

I can't speak for the first 3, but the last one I can and no, they're not. They have essentially a state-sponsored monopoly on all the fiber/(aging)copper in the ground and that telco company (DeutscheTelekom) is nearly non-existent as far as the rest of the world goes. Additionally, Cisco and Juniper dominate the…

Any German being hassled by Americans over the Nazi thing can just point out that without American eugenics, the Nazis would never have happened.

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I think you're forgetting that rednecks, in spite of their ambivalence towards minorities, tend to support Israel, enjoy free speech and capitalism, favor owing guns, and generally oppose socialist dictators, eugenics or vegetarianism. It would seem to me that tweedy, pointy-headed academic conformists would find…

We tend to use cookie to describe America-style biscuits (large, soft, doughy and usually bought fresh) to distinguish them from more traditional British-style biscuits, which tend to be small, crisp and bought in plastic packets that will keep in your cupboard for a seemingly infinite length of time. So we'd call…

Was that Sinead O'Connor in the audience passing out some more helpful advice?

He's been wrecking his credibility for years by acting like a petulant child. He didn't discover atheism, he just decided to be particularly vicious about it. There are better thinkers out there.

I wonder if they still get along okay with everything that has happened in the past couple of years. Some pretty stressful things have happened. It would be nice if this was not just a staged photo-op to make it look like they do, but an actual pleasant lunch for the two of them.