for a simple product the consumer can discipline the seller, for anything complicated, as we have seen, the govt. is required. In ideas it is the same thing: if the consumers of the "ideas" have no interest in reality but only want their emotions stoked why should the providers care either?

and you are either for god or against him. Don't get bogged down in irrelevant trivia and there is certainly no reason to expect those who know the truth to do so.

AND the girl also gets paid 4 million to have sex while the man has to spend a lot of time and money for the opportunity to give it away. Thank God we finally have equality.

then again, sometimes it seems that they are right to think so.

Apparently some feminists have a (ideologically convenient)virginity fetish too.

no sign yet that belief in equality has prompted any impulse to grant men equivalent veto power over the actions, and thoughts, of women.

if only there were some way to REALLY be sure.

it exists whether you strive for it or not, or whether you want it to or not.

but until drugs are added to the water supply to make women want sex more or men want it less there is no chance that she will suffer this awful fate.

actually it is almost certain you could, if you were willing to lower your standards as much as men do.

not 6 billion.

Look at who has been president for the last 8 years. Similar dynamics apply accross the board.

Me too, of course one of the innumberable complications is the fact that "maturity" is often interpreted to mean "no sex", one of the reasons this is complcating is the fact that in many cases it acutally does mean that.

and self awareness.

If this were really true then foreplay wouldn't be the issue that it is. It's pretty funny sometimes to see the things people overlook when they get caught up in making their case.

Obama is going to have to go over their heads and/or new, or at least different, media are going to have to SEVERELY threaten their viability for them to change. Obviously nothing that has happened up until now has been enough to change anything.

there are polcies that can and should be enacted but they will be enacted by pushing through opposition not creating a consensus. It's true that the political and cultural gridlock may change, but all divides will not be bridged.

(to look on the bright side maybe a few more people can now see/admit what has always been there). It isn't just the Washington elite either that is responsible for the double standard: the conservative/fundie/lower class has ALWAYS had to accept that the elite had more freedom than everyone else. What both the elite AND THE CONSERVATIVE NON ELITE REALLY can't handle is the idea of a "normal" person i.e everyone being granted the same rights and freedoms as the elite.

Actually it has to even though he doesn't.

the difference between the media treatment of democrats and republicans, like bush, is that the media is occasionally forced, very reluctantly, to acknowledge the disasters that republicans create. Other than that their coverage is positive. When covering democrats they invent and/or relentlessly transmit every possible negative fact or non fact that floats, or is pumped up, from the right wing sewer.

should that be considered the same as blue eyes or curly hair?

now what? Do you think you can force them to, and what will happen if you try to?

So for a few years the level of conflict goes way up, the Arabs finally win and Israel nukes them since the Jews won't go quietly twice. Problem solved, right?

so lots of braking energy to be recaptured and the only other alternative is very short bursts of recharging to a battery and very many on/off cycles of electric motors.

Not every itch is entitled to be scratched, child molesters have an itch they can't scratch too but that doesn't stop us from telling them NO. People whose obesity is a burden to other people need to tell themselves and be told by others NO as well. .

Encouraging the Palestinians to think they can win their war against Israel will indeed cause them to suffer more than they are now.

the problem up to now has been that this wasn't the case.

it would seem that they have the capability if they really want to use it, especially with US air support.

Breaking into peoples houses and smearing shit all over everything is not the same as murder, both are crimes however. I guess you might think that maybe one shouldn't be, so as not to trivialize the other.

that doesn't mean they should embrace it when they can prevent it by appropriate behavior (and when you have cancer you don't have to be taken care of by other people for decades before you finally die of your disease).

nothing will ever change (except to get worse).

since the answer is obviously no, no honest person can fail to admit that women are less interested in sex and romance for it's own sake than men, or at least they are pickier about who they are interested in it with.