If course I’m dumb. At least I know that I don’t know.
Question is are you smart enough to feel stupid? Hope so.

That’s nothing. Wait till you see what he does in his third term.

Ironically, when the Trumpy says “we must stop being politically correct”, he is being “politically correct” in getting around directly saying something offensive, (i.e. that we should suspend the US Constitution and just straight out discriminate based on religion). He is the worst.

No, not to shame you, but maybe to help you consider that it’s as easy as it is irrelevant to call for someone’s death from afar.

Just a quick follow up (sorry - not trying to be a jerk; I just find the topic interesting, though it has nothing to do with Serbian volleyball). I asked my wife (born in early 1960s, lived in Japan till age 25) if she was aware that 80% of Japanese are lactose intolerant. She could hardly believe it and said she…

Just to offset the balance, I’m a white guy in the greys who thinks Maher has been a racist narcissist for a long long time and needs to be retired with extreme prejudice (haha I make a joke).

That is badder!

The good news is that these stupid old men will be dead soon enough. The bad news is that they aren’t already.

Even the parents of the young women they tortured and murdered didn’t wish the death penalty for them.

Well certainly I’d never take the position that dairy consumption there is anywhere near what it is in North America. How much of that is due to culture (with dairy being a fairly modern addition to the Japanese diet) and how much due to lactose intolerance, I don’t know.

This is a good point. I had thought about how I’d feel were I a parent at that school. I certainly wouldn’t want my child to be left alone with her ever. But there are circumstances where I wouldn’t object to her volunteering in proximity to my child. Again, I’m not saying she’s unequivocally no longer a danger; I’m…

I followed the case pretty closely while it was going on. Maybe that’s the difference. I processed all of this 20 some years ago and I understand that a lot of time has passed between now and then. I never said I believe fully that Homolka is no longer a danger. I just said I’m not the one to judge whether she is or…

Not arguing with your stats at all, but I’ll say that for my wife’s family (Japanese living in Osaka area) they eat a fair amount of cheese/butter/milk. My wife drinks a lot of milk (more than me, a white guy) without issue. She’s never mentioned lactose as being a problem for Japanese people in general in all the…

OK, for the record, raping, torturing and murdering children is/was/always will be bad. My point was more along the lines of admitting that I have no fucking idea whether she’s still a danger and being unwilling to join the virtual mob because, sorry, I do believe in second chances even for people who did very bad…

Thanks. I know all about the case.

I mean, I feel like this is a very un-internet thing to say, but at this point, I just don’t have an opinion and feel like it’s between her, the school, and I guess the other parents. She was involved in some horrific things roughly 25 years ago, but what’s really in her head now is not for me to know or opine on.

I thought that was a Digimon? Thanks for everything, Ashley!

I don’t think Archie Bunker ever used it on that show, and in any case, she seems to be missing the entire point of the show. I’d love to hear her take on Roots...

Yeah, no. I’d never heard of Plinko before this post either. Guess I’ve been wasting my life.

Ok, so at best he’s an idiot savant. Well, have fun with the savant part, Ryan.