"I want you all to refuse to stand the next time you're in court too

Because fuck those fascists and let them throw you in jail."

Actually, you rarely stand when in court. Usually, if you are standing, that means you are speaking to the court or the jury has entered the courtroom. There are rules you follow to show respect for the court, the judge and the jury, including standing when asked -- but you follow those rules to show respect, not subservience.

"But it does get old hearing this cohort of Ivy League toughs -- most of whom one suspects haven't had even a fistfight since third grade -- describe every U.S. foreign policy issue as a testosterone test."

I think you forget that Dick Cheney actually shot someone.

She said we "want" to fall for them, not that we do.

I don't like it either.

Too jumbled. The last redesign was really good. I got used quickly. This new redesign is unpleasing.

The point is that real life terrorists find it extraordinarily difficult to obtain and use them, but find it very easy to make a conventional bomb and hide it along a road or in a truck at a market or in a backpack. Real life isn't an episode of "24". Real life terrorists attack with cheap weapons and little training. The most well-trained terrorists in real life have not high-jacked or built a nuclear missile. They learned how to fly a plane.

We have limited resources to fight terrorism, just like terrorists have limited resources to fight us. Therefore, even though the thought of detonating a nuke in D.C. might thrill A.Q. leadership, the fact is they are far more likely to attack with AK-47s and C4. Therefore, it makes sense to direct our limited resources to stopping the most likely attacks, not the most fantastical.

Were you in charge of the "wow this looks cool!" part of the Antro/UO experience? Or the "holy Christ that's expensive!" part one gets after looking at an Antro/UO price tag?

Sorry, I kid, I kid.

I worked in a restaurant in a hotel. One night, a woman and a man were drinking and chatting it up in the hotel bar. She leaves to go to her room. The man doesn't get her room number, so he asks one of the waiters to get it for him. The waiter obliges! Surprise, surprise, the drunk man is not welcome when he knocks on the woman's door. (Luckily, the drunk man only woke her up, nothing more.)

And the waiter? Gets written up, but never understands why what he did was stupid and wrong.

why anyone would voluntarily live in that state.

Who the hell are these people?

is to see illegal immigrants euthanized (sp?) when they show up in emergency rooms.

Boys have penises, which means that they will grow up to fight in wars and produce goods/provide services which will be sold outside the home for money.

Girls have vaginae, which means that they will raise children and produce goods/provide services which will be consumed inside the home.

Thus, there is no point in trying to raise children in a gender neutral environment, because our essential nature is determined by gender! It's just nature, people!

I'm just a simply unfrozen caveman, and don't understand your strange sciences and case studies, but isn't getting a vaccine like being exposed to the pathogen, just in a more controlled setting? Isn't that the whole point of a vaccine -- get exposed to the pathogen so that your body can figure out how to fight it?

What you appear to be arguing is that people should be exposed to flu viruses in a situation where they might die because after the weaker die, the gene pool will be stronger. That sounds great, unless you die from the flu.

"Lifeboat feminism" and tripe about how liberals aren't patriotic? That's all you've got?

"This old war horse (pig) does not have an ounce of class by acknowledging who will actually pay and who will benefit. She just keeps asking for more."

You call Sen. Stabenow a pig and then say *she* doesn't have an ounce of class? Seriously? What is wrong with you?

And to answer your implicitly posed question: America will pay for maternity care, and America will benefit from it (or do you think that infant mortality and sickly children are good for our county?).

"I don't know whether this guy is actually delusional or just astoundingly stupid and lacking in basic reasoning abilities."

Who's saying he can't be both?

can't be all bad.

"That means you're supposed to walk, or bicycle, or take a bus, to make some sort of anti-car, anti-prosperity statement. Good luck getting to and from the grocery store."

That's why I choose (and I know I'm lucky to have a choice) to live in a mixed-use neighborhood so I can get groceries without driving.

My paranoid, conspiracy theorist co-worker warned me about those! It's kind of nice to know that Ms. Taitz is off-the-chain crazy, and not just looking for fifteen minutes of fame.

"The ad's outrageous and false, and what is really surprising and disappointing is that the Washington Post would run it," ABC News Senior Vice President Jeffrey Schneider told Salon.

Much more disappointing than surprising, really.

Orly Taitz, I understand. Stupid and ignorant people (including "attorneys") are all too common.

But what about Taitz's counsel? If s/he allowed this, then obviously s/he has little or no experience with Federal judges.

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Taitz IS the counsel. The order to show cause hearing is about her behavior.

"Just please stop using a no-fault term like "tragedy" in cases where fault is overwhelmingly obvious."

Tragedy is not a no-fault term. Relevant definitions of tragedy from Merriam-Webster:

2 a : a disastrous event : calamity b : misfortune

3 : tragic quality or element

That is all.

Its commercials are icky and its food is nasty.

Two words: epic fail.