Jesus didn’t even exist.

This isn’t to necessarily garner responses but I just needed to vent for a bit, and don’t know where else to do it.

I prefer to give women like this my attention.

“Yup, used to be an alcoholic (still am, albeit a non-drinking one).”

here is a simple test. Try to pause drinking for a month. See if you can do it. If you cannot do it, you have an issue. It might be a psychological or physical addiction but you have an addiction.

I think that’s materialism (which may be disproven as a religion, also). Buddhism, I think, is a reincarnation of consciousness, to live new lives.

Loved the interview. I don’t care if he occasionally is a grinch when it comes to sci-fi and the like —in my opinion Tyson has earned his place as Sagan’s heir as our chief science communicator. This is one of my favorite things ever:

Jesus Christ..... what a piece of shit.

We have instant access to almost all of the accumulated knowledge in human history, art, and science. Some people use this power to further build upon human achievement, many many more use it to waste time or spread misinformation. I think it’s an elitist thought, but it is very apparent that only a small fraction of…

I hope they send Melania and Donnie a save-the-date card, but never send an invitation.

Dear Bono: Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

Just gotta get through this, Melania, she thinks as she walks through the whispering wood. Just gotta get through this.

Will there be cake?

The health insurance lobby will not let that slide without a huge, economically crippling fight. Just think of how they would love it if I paid the government instead of them!

Poor civic education and rural poverty. These basically keep feeding each other, generation after generation of ignorance and hatred—especially in the rural South, which never recovered economic influence since the Civil War was lost, the Industrial Revolution shifted economic power to the cities.

Oh absolutely they need to pull together! But only in local communities and only voluntarily, not with taxation (because taxation is theft you see!) If the government would just butt out then everyone would voluntarily donate enough money to take care of all the problems even MORE efficiently!

I guess it’s our way. I read a little bit about the Dutch system in a book earlier in the year — I like the idea of being able to switch insurance provider at any time, for no cost, to fit one’s need. That’s a nice feature.

It’s a simple question with a complex answer. The meat of it is that we don’t have any transparency or consistency on pricing. Follow that with fear of change, and fear of “rationing” (even though all health care is rationed to some degree). There’s also an innate distrust of government that we’ve always had, plus a…

Right into oblivion.

It’s not even repubs exclusively, more how deeply embedded insurance is in the medical industry overall. Everyone hates it, including insurers, but no one has the guts to overhaul the system with a more sensible single-payer version because it’s so interwoven into our economy. That’s how Dems went from “Universal…