Whoa, wait - ANY form of deism? So you’re saying that ANYTHING you can think of - that God is Michael Jackson’s sequined glove and when you die you go see the Glove and it talks to you through one of those little hand mouths you make with your thumb and index finger and it’s wearing Groucho Marx glasses and it…

Oh no, he actually just tried a like, “I’m older and wiser” thing on you, dude! While he spouts absolute fucking drivel! He can’t get that one side is coming to a reasoned opinion based on all of the available evidence, and the other is just making shit up based on nothing. There is no practical standard of…

Um, no. And no need to squabble about semantics, by any standard you’re wrong on that one.

No, that’s not true. Anyone who claims to KNOW anything about this unknowable stuff is a nutjob, yes, but most atheists, such as myself, aren’t saying they KNOW there is no god, we’re saying we don’t believe there is a god. Big difference - and even famous grating atheists like Ricky Gervais will tell you he’s not…

I don’t know, man. While I agree that arguments about it being a tool for control (what the fuck isn’t these days?) and stuff like that sound like me when I was 18, as I approach my 40s and the last of my willingness to suffer bullshit starts to fade, I find it hard not to have broad, generalized feelings about the…

This is some dumb snark. “What’s your problem with her hard work will pay off schtick? SHE SAID we have to completely overhaul American society, economics and politics first.” 

This is a bullshit comment. That most definitely deserved a “hmm”. It’s not a flat out rejection of what she said, but a “what EXACTLY do you mean by that?” kinda “hmm”. Is she suggesting that it’s an unwillingness to work hard that keeps people out of the middle class? Is there even really a middle class anymore? I…

Well allow me: It is a fact that Steve King is a racist.

I feel like blackmail gets a bad rap. I mean, fabricating evidence of a wrongdoing in order to get something from someone feels like a crime, but if I, say, catch my married boss having sex with his assistant, why shouldn’t I be able to extract a little hush-money for that? Or at least be allowed to give it a try?

If by “at this point” you mean October 7, 1996, you’re right!

Am I the only one who grew up not really getting credit for simply doing the right thing, especially when it was easy to do?

What...colour...is he?

Yeah, that was exactly the same situation.

It’s almost like they were FORCED into a socioeconomic situation that lends itself to an increased rate criminality. Shit, I wonder who’s responsible for that?

Eagles fan here, and I was surprised at how quickly I brushed off the sting of this one too. It was amazing we hung in as long as we did and it was great that we stayed in last night’s game to the bitter end.

Oh, can you? So you’re all a bunch of racists, you disingenuous piece of shit?

Great points all, and I stand corrected - definitely hadn’t thought that through with all the potential scenarios. And your proposed program perfectly captures the spirit of what I was (incorrectly) thinking might be positive about that awful struck-down law.

This is of course all awful shit but, in the interest of some kind of discussion, the whole seeing an ultrasound of the fetus thing doesn’t seem that bad to me? I mean, it’s soured by the fact that the motive behind it is surely just a desire to make women feel guilty about having an abortion (they shouldn’t), but if…

You know how in those apocalyptic-type movies when they show the transition of time through a series of increasingly intense and horrifying news stories? This is like a first or second one of those.

Off the charts stupid.