That is, faux liberal opposition that's given firm orders on what and how far to push. But in truth they're really just the same regime in different shirts. This is quite popular all across the Mid East and SW Asia and is meant to take the internal and external pressure off.

Don't forget that Iran still likes to hang boys and girls from cranes in public for the 'crime' of being gay or a smartmouth. So let's not applaud their delicate liberal sensibilities quite yet.

It becomes a permanent collection of old people who grumble all day at the coffeehouse while they predict the inevitable coming revolution. Closing and opening the press for whatever reason the regime likes is a constant in that part of the world.

Keep away from the crackpot dirty hippy earth mother nonsense. What a retarded idea.

"Protest" From Morocco to Pakistan, every day the government such as it is, shuts this newspaper or that one, locks up the editors and publishers and such. Happens a great deal in Sahel and southern Africa too. And then after a few months, they sort of let everyone out of jail, ignore them for a while until the next crackdown. Doesn't anyone remember that in Iran, every 18 months or so there's a student protest movement that comes and goes mysteriously? That's almost certainly a put-up by the regime to display their 'freedoms'. Jordan does that a great deal too with their so called Parliament that has zero real power. The loyal opposition decides what to protest about, the monarch or mullah or whathave you agrees to 'dialog' with them and in a month or two it goes nowhere. Otherwise they'd have to address real issues and real change which of course is anathema to them.

The same people who are obsessing about food additives, second hand smoke, transfat, talking on cell phones, vaccinations and a hundred other things are busy getting inked. It's like the potheads I know who hate cigarette smoke.

The thing that irks us at the hive is this endless tearfest of long boring stories on "LA Ink" or "Miami Ink" about WHY people are getting tattoos. It's always some long boring pointless personal story you humans are so fond of. I can imagine telling the Jiffy Lube guy some heartfelt tale on WHY you're getting your oil changed.

We love articles like this because they are raw meat for vegans. You want tough? We will slaughter a million just to have enough dead carapaces to walk over.

It could be that he truly believes his own hype. Also he doesn't have a day job, so why not?

Robert Lansing was a scientist who acquired the ability to pass through solid objects. He became a murderous vampire. We give it 3 Hives!

We DO get a chuckle out of your micromanaged fear driven hyper scheduled it's all about the chilllllllldren everyone wear bike helmets in the bathtub while bathing in hand sanitizer let's burn cell phone users at the stake and execute sex offenders on pay per view ethos.

There are so many of us at Hive Omicron.

where all the men are women and all the women are angry.

That this was yet another of your silly human television shows when the previews first appeared. What with vampire detectives, ghost hunters, undead Dutch police officers, it seemed a lock. Plus, any time you have Samuel Jackson whoring himself out being Samuel Jackson, it's a safe bet that some Network 'exec' doing crank off a boy toy's genitals thought this great idea up.

We give it Half a Hive.

That in Kenya running is the national sport and the government gives their top runners no show military commissions and/or police jobs in order to give the illusion that they have 'regular' jobs.

Tell us Italians like circus midgets and alcoholism.

According to the RNC, 'released endorsed' delegates are bound to the endorsee for only the first vote. After which they are free to vote for whomever they wish. This also means that Romney has officially dropped out of the race not merely suspended it.

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You could not elect Nixon on the Democratic ticket anymore. He'd be considered too left wing radical. That's how far to the right your whole country has become. Clinton, Obama, all further to the right than moderate Republicans of 30 years ago. Republicans today further to the right than John Birch Crazies of 30 years ago. So polarization is a relative thing.

Individuality is both overrated and evolutionarily inefficient.

This is what polymath 20th century deep and wide education grounded in the classical romantic tradition looks like. Read also Mark Van Doren and Isaiah Berlin.

Yes your Human brains are shrinking and what's worse, you are damned proud of it.

If by using equivalent force it helps you to sleep at night.

"Deal or No Deal" was really an unknown work by Shakespeare. So get back to your inkwells and entertain us.

Which is of course the human way to go about this sort of thing.

They don't have a breeding season. So there's more than a little truth to the whole infidelity thing.