It’s articles like this, and the conclusion you draw, that keep me coming back to your writing.

I’ve seen one episode of that stupid TV show, and my response was: “this is what stupid people think smart people are like.”

Never gets old.

You know what? Both of you can fuck off. Taste in music equates to nothing else in life. Your tastes are only your tastes, and taste in one area means jack shit to anything else.

“What do you think is the closest amount of time a pregnant woman has had between having oral sex performed on her, and giving birth?”

I believe I recorded that movie...on a Betamax tape.

This is the real important part of the discussion. Language is very metaphorical, and we often get lost in the metaphor. As you say, “particle”, “look” and “box” are essentially metaphors for us to understand probabilistic waveforms.

“willed into existence by my observation of it” reminds me of this for some reason:

That’s beautiful.

Load car; put child in car; go back into house to get one more thing; get arrested for breaking stupidest law ever.

Was the headline of my sports page this morning.

It would be so wonderful if the monopoly power of the NFL and MLB was no longer protected by the federal government. Many of these problems can be traced to this protection.

Literally “quoting the law” does not actually end the discussion. That’s like saying there should be no trials at all, because someone quoted a law. Get rid of the judges!

Actually, Mr. Burneko’s point seems to be that 5.B.ii (you wrote 5.a.II, but I assume you meant B, as there is no sub-paragraph ii for paragraph A) doesn’t apply here, because the activities don’t really want to influence the policy of a government. They may want to influence the perceptions people have of them (i.e.,…

You are beautiful.

That’s fuckin’ beautiful.

Yeah, we got it the first time. I would say, however, that the Colts losing their quarterback is more akin to the Texans losing Watt than the Texans losing their quarterback. That position was never a strength for the Texans, so going through any number of QBs really doesn’t make a change to them. The main reason the…

First scenario: the quitter you have to let slide. She quit because of a preference you don’t have and you might find distasteful. If you can manage to fit in saying respectfully that you don’t have that preference, and you find it distasteful, go for it. But the other lady made a specific falsifiable claim. “Most of…

This is a false dichotomy. Alcoholism can be a disease and you can be responsible for your own behavior. Perhaps an analogy can work. Please remember this is an analogy and not an allegory and not an equation. Muscular dystrophy is a disease. People who have this disease can make choices about their movements. To the…

Very fair, as well. I don’t begrudge anyone the right to enjoy a movie.