I understand that dairy lost 11 pounds in 30 days by cutting Khloe out of its life. #letsalltryit

To be dealt with by you and me and a few million others, in all the ways we influence our communities and society: voting, buying, parenting, joining, conversing, challenging, working. I fear that sounds trivial, but many things do and are nonetheless true.

“... the worst / are full of passionate intensity.”

I walk past them about once a week going into the supermarket next door. I always tell the clinic escorts out front: THANK YOU FOR BEING AWESOME. All the while, the vigil-antes keep up with the prayer they’re muttering, fingering their rosary beads. I get the feeling they’re not quite there with me on the sidewalk.…

On the other hand, persuade them to another view. Division of the population into polarized and non-communicating camps tends to exacerbate xenophobia — again, playing into the hands of those who would see society (here in the USA, and in the Middle East) torn apart.

Cultural, political, and economic disenfranchisement nurture ideological fanaticism. It’s nothing to do with religion or ethnicity. That ideologues manifest their fanaticism in nationalistic or religious terms is a symptom of structural inequality, not evidence of the essentially fanatical nature of any particular…

You tell hir!

Nice try. No way am I trusting the advice of a “dietician”... I mean, the word “die” is right in there!

Is this the guy?

Money being withheld from a campus newspaper is not a threat to freedom of speech of the sort Voltaire would have been alluding to.

You’re using the same arguments that were used by persons opposed to integrating the armed forces. Stop doing that.

Spirit animal: dik-dik.

I’m totally going to do this. Freak my wife the heck out.

How expensive, some might ask? You might take two shots a week; each shot will be billed to your insurance company for $8-10k. A million dollars a year: because you’re worth it.

(One of the reasons you’re seeing all those ads for Raptiva, Humira, Stelara, and the like on television, catering to folks with autoimmune…

I don’t think you’re taking into account the way most grown-ass folks make decisions, whatever their capacity to seek information, whatever the availability of that information.

Riiiiiight.

From our honeymoon.

I don’t believe the article you cite supports the position you staked out, not in the terms you used. But look: enough. Let it be enough that we’re largely on the same page. There’s nothing more to contend.

So you say. Let’s say I find your position plausible, in this broad-strokes presentation. Where’s the policy analysis, the polling, the data to support it? When you plug in some of that, you’ll have a case. What you have here is an outline, and that’s not grounds for us to get into a really constructive back and…

I don’t find that metaphor useful toward shared understanding.