I almost wish he could experience an equivalent ordeal to show him what it's really like to live in fear.

On the other hand:

This isn't a political case, where throwing knives at your target can be excused as so much partisan hardball

Well that's your personal value system. I personally don't find the the meanness in our political process excusable at all.

Do you really think your unrelenting hatred and abuse of everyone who disagrees with you view can make the world better?

Honestly, is that how you feel?

People like Bloomberg have diminished social functions. Their brains don't work right. That's why they're such workaholics and that's why they RUIN workplaces by forcing all the socially and emotionally normal people to compete with their workaholic ways.

People with diminished social capacity aren't really capable of fully enjoying the time when they aren't working.

This reminds me of an old joke I heard when I started physics graduate school. It's about why men in different professions take mistresses.

The punchline is that the physicist has a mistress so that he can work all night and his wife won't be mad -- because she'll think he's with his mistress.

That joke says a lot about the social development of people in my field.

The ultimate cure for this problem will come when families and schools get better at socializing high IQ children with Asperger's.

Men with Asperger's who were properly socialized when they were young are much better to work around than the ones who were just left to their own devices and allowed to grow up without any training in social behavior or empathy at all.

Moms out there -- if you have a bright kid who's good at math, do NOT excuse away those poor grades in social development. Work to get those grades up too. Some day your child's co-workers or employees or graduate students will have reason to thank you.

You guys obsess over alcohol. But cannabis can't even be reported on, not even when it's observed killing breast cancer cells.

I'll never STOP being absolutely stunned by that fact.

Global warming does not belong to Al Gore.

He did good PR for the science. But good PR should not win a Nobel prize.

I worry that Gore fans are exploiting global warming to nurture a cult of personality around their favorite political hero.

Well I don't care about the politics. I care about the science.

The politics can go jump in a lake, and so can the politicians.

I've done some really good PR for superstring theory.

If they give the Peace prize to Gore for global warming, then if there's ever a Physics prize for superstring theory, they should bypass people like Michael Green and John Schwarz, and just give the prize to me.

Too bad about those scientists who did the actual work here.

I wonder if anyone will ever recognize THEM for THEIR WORK?

Maybe Gen X really hates science that much. I guess it's possible.

Too bad the real scientists will never get any credit.

You people certainly don't give them any credit.

You can count on me not to vote.

If he runs again, then the Democratic position on medical marijuana is going to be EXACTLY the same as it was in 2000.

He's going to deny that there is any science at all to support medical marijuana -- just like he did in 2000.

The fact that there is a ton of animal and in vitro and demographic studies that support medical marijuana will not matter to him, just like it did not matter to him in 2000.

I can't vote for someone who treats me like some expendable piece of scum whose life is not worth saving.

I am still alive now because I disagreed with him and believed my life WAS worth saving.

If he ran for president I would have to vote against him just to acknowledge to myself the value of my own life.

MY LIFE IS WORTH SAVING

So f*ck Al Gore.

If you didn't believe the scientists about medical marijuana, then what makes you think they're right about global warming?

You either trust professional scientists, or you don't.

I feel like we're back in 2000 and he's lying about IOM report again like my life is not worth saving.

One partner can always be knocked out of commission by illness. What if the husband gets sick and can't work? What if the wife gets sick and can't cook and clean?

Religious marriage vows mean you can't just toss away your non-functioning partner and replace him or her with a functioning substitute. This is one reason why even religious believers have broken away from these old tribal-type customs.

You see these stories over and over again -- people who had to take over the traditional role of a partner due to illness or death and became more pro-feminist because of it.

Those type of events made up an important part of the process of social change that brought us to the point where we are today.

Those Christians are going to try to resurrect the past, but they're only going to rediscover why people moved away from that kind of life to being with.

Because gender flexibility is an important part of human adaptability.

Those Christians are going to try to resurrect the past, but they're only going to rediscover why people moved away from that kind of life to BEGIN with.