If it were a caste system, the economy passengers wouldn't be allowed to fly first class at all, and if they tried they would be punished.

New drugs are novel new combinations and arrangements of molecules. New drugs have no ethics. Our problem is that we don't have a good understanding of addiction, its causes, how to prevent it or treat it.

You know who else was an asshole? Jordan Catalano.

In figure skating, a win is never just a win. Controversy is as much a part of the sport as jumps, spins, and scores.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... and cheese is rotten, spoiled milk. Both are delicious.

When your childhood babysitter was Christopher Hitchens, there's a very good chance you're going to be awesome.

Why would you use a cropped version of that gif? The full is so much better.

This is what I love about the Winter Olympics. I only ever see reports on ice skating and other sports I don't give a shit about. I don't have to worry about spoilers for ski/snowboard slopestyle, cross, halfpipe, or slalom.

..."the History Channel series 'The Bible'"...

To the anti-vaxxers: This is what whooping cough looks like in an infant. This is the misery you have wrought, you selfish, ignorant, scum-sucking assholes. I hope you all die in a fire.

Bernardo Bertolucci said Eva Green is "so beautiful, it's indecent."

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Queen of the Uppers and Downers, She of the Dreds and Bling

This also means no more Bob Sheppard introductions :-(

The big reveal? You mean that the old guy was actually the man the story, and the old woman was actually the woman, and the story was about them? Everyone I know figured that out about five minutes in.

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I believe one of the fundamental functions of government is to care for its citizens, and included in that mandate is the health and well-being of those citizens. Therefore, I think health care is a responsibility of government to the people. I also accept that government cannot function without taxes.

Government makes laws and has a monopoly on the legal use of violence. That is its purpose. Those laws must be enforced, or else the government serves no purpose. How do you suggest we enforce laws, if not by force? By asking politely?

Whichever political philosophy currently has power in government "dictates" its values to others. If your values are small government, low taxes, and no social services, those are the values which your ideal government would impose on others. I'd wager that you would love to impose your views on women's reproductive…