Courtesy of BoingBoing:

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/09/23/the-hubbert-peak-theory-of-rock-or-why-were-all-out-of-good-songs/

So when your kids do something you disagree with, do you compare them to Nazis instead of yelling or spanking?

You are underestimating the number of native Americans 400 years ago by several orders of magnitude.

Self conscious hyperbole is not the same as the "death panel" hysteria. The representative's exaggeration shows the flaws in the Republican's plan (or lack thereof) but doesn't really believe itself, while the right's loony fringe really does seems to think that "death panels" is a possibility.

Of course, the Republican party is increasingly like a cowboy's jacket: all fringe.

From: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hofstra_co_ed_rape_claim_lie_YvsAtqhpWlUP24qxSeVptM

A source said that surveillance video failed to back up Ndonye’s original story.

(ok, not exactly the most trustworthy news source ever...)

Some cursory googling reveals that Ndonye, the accuser, is a native of Togo. I suppose that this means that if it is racism, it is a combination of black on black and black on hispanic racism.

If they altered genes for something other than being RoundUp ready. Extra vitamins (like in golden rice) would be nice. However, there hasn't seemed to be a market for these better kinds of modifications and so they are rarely created. Even when they are, they are patented and restricted.

We could surely finance some government run hospitals in the Mayo or VA mold. The insurers aren't the only ones taking too much of a chunk of the health care dollar. Plus, we could also help alleviate regional access disparities.

but we had actual bows and arrows. My sister and I used to shoot them into a target against a seep hill. As long as you keep them away from the hunting tipped kind, there's a lot to recommend it.

I sold my soul to the company store.

A dramatic sales fall will bolster the arguments of critics who believed that the Clunkers program failed to provide a real stimulus, but instead just "stole" sales from the future.

You give them too much credit. They will likely complain if there is _any_ fall in sales.

which, for better or for worse, we all mostly ignore. One, I believe, was about the invalidity of the 5 second rule. Where was the haranguing about "marxist-nazi-thugs stealing our freshly dropped, mostly clean PB&J sandwiches from our children's hands"?

Perhaps her books are required reading for some majors, but during _my_ studies we learned of other things. One was the fact that turning 360 degrees does not change your direction.

From the article:

As for feminism, Weldon said: 'Life is much better, because you are not dependent on the goodwill of men. But the trouble is, the battle became too fierce, and the whole culture encouraged women to believe that men are stupid, useless creatures who are the enemy.

'But men nowadays aren't s***. They're actually much nicer.'

She still seems to have the same problem with the older culture. She just thinks things have gotten better.

The average family size is 3.14 people per dwelling. So your estimation of 7 million homes should mean 21.98 million people - 7% of the US population. That may not be 1 in 8 Americans affected, but it's still around 1 in 14.

It cleans, it smells good, and its label leaves you very, very confused.

Since when are Christians and Jews peaceful? Have you not been paying attention to the news for the past 2000 years?

If my wife came to me and said that I had a choice between her 1) being a prostitute and 2) us getting foreclosed on, me losing my job, and us and our children living on the street starving in the flies-in-the-eyes-African sense, I would pick #2 every time. < troll > Of course, the kind of person like Jennifer of Bronx, NY were whores before they ever had sex with anyone so I'm not sure that they'd notice the difference. < /troll >

They're sure to get caught by "No Parking except from 1-2pm on the third Saturday of even numbered months". Ca-ching $$$ for the meter maids!

Anyway, the costs of translating only happen a small number of times unless California makes a habit of regularly changing the exams.

If you only pay off one party, the other one will run against you and you'll either lose or at least be exposed. For effective corruption, you have to pay off both parties.

just sayin'

and join the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

Another religious straw man argument. It seems Eagleton sets up atheists as being against not just religion but against the entire edifice of western moral philosophy. One of the main arguments of atheism is that you can have all these moral convictions without a god.

Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Fichte have all observed in different ways that unspoken assumptions about the world around us (that is, faith) are the precondition of all knowledge in the first place.

Ok, so I have to somehow believe that I'm not a brain in a jar. So what? How do you get from there to believing in Jesus? Just because you can name drop uncommon European names that people vaguely remember from a freshman philosophy class means nothing. Some of these people were clearly fools. Wittgenstein apparently thought that contradictions were OK in Mathematics.

but at least this time we could burn down Dallas instead of Atlanta.

do we have any data on the number of loan requests that were denied? If so, how does it compare to previous years?

Banks can't loan you money that you didn't request and if many businesses and individuals are worried about their debt levels we could be seeing a decrease that isn't the bank's "fault".