Yes, yes, there's more to sex than putting on a condom. Good sex might be harder than driving. But we're not talking about good sex. We're talking about safe sex.

"Personally I think safely driving a car is easier than sex, and one can't get pregnant or catch an STD from driving a car."

Really?! Cars can kill people - NOW - and they do, even when every precaution is taken. Many tens of thousands of teens die in cars every year. I don't want to downplay the risks of sex - they are real - but let's be honest, with appropriate precautions the risks can be quite small and managable. The odds of a teen who practices safe sex with a very small number of well-known partners getting a serious STD (and there's really only one VERY serious STD) must be vanishingly smaller than her odds of dying in a car.

And there's simply no way operating a motor vehicle is tougher than putting on a condom.

The fact that conservatively-minded (or even moderately-minded, or hell, some liberally-minded) parents would rather have their child operating a two-ton death machine than have sex is really a great illustration of the way America works - obsessed with cars, terrified of sex.

I prefer the South Park take on the matter.

CHEF: It's very simple children. The right time to start having sex is seventeen.

KYLE: Seventeen?

CHEF: Seventeen.

SHEILA: So you mean seventeen as long as you're in love?

CHEF: Nope. Just seventeen.

GERALD: But, what if you're not ready at seventeen?

CHEF: Seventeen. You're ready.

Firefox is fine on my serious computer here at work, but on my ~3yr old technology computer at home, it's been getting slower and slower with each release. If I open more than a few tabs, the rendering is miserably slow when I switch between them. I got Chrome instead and it works fine - I'll take the speed any day, even if it's a bit awkward and buggy.

Yes, heard this one before. We're just not looking deep enough into the intricacies of theism before dismissing it. It's like someone is trying to sell me a house that's built on a bog, and wonders why I'm not interested in stepping inside to check out the beautiful crown molding and the granite counter tops.

Atheists know that theism is as deep as human imagination. We also know it's imaginative. You can add all the lush details you want, but when you propose something that's patently ludicrous and present no evidence to back it up, all the while rejecting the same proposals from fellow snake-oil salesmen, I just don't have time. Sorry.

... who thinks this kinda sounds like fun? I think my teenage years would be considerably more memorable if they had been spend roaming Oregon on my own rather than living in generic suburbia and doing everything I was told. I'll be they're all the more interesting adults for the experience.

I will start by saying that I really enjoyed Pollan's book and his ideas, and I believe the author of this review that Bittman's book is a reasonable set of guidelines for how to put Pollan's ideas into action.

That being said, I just can't figure out where I fit in to all of this. For all of their good intentions and reassurances, cooking is still a very time-intensive process that is an incredibly low priority for a single, mid-twenties graduate student who spends sixty-plus hours a week doing research and coursework; and I'm sure many, many other Americans are in a similar situation time-wise. Even something as simple as making myself a sandwich to bring to work becomes absurd... by the time I've bought quality ingredients at the local co-op and pieced the damn thing together, and then pull the soggy mess out the refridgerator at noon, I've spend $6 and wished I'd just fricking gone to Subway. Not to mention the stuff I throw away that's gone bad.

A group experiment with Community Supported Agriculture convinced me that every stay-at-home parent with hours of free time needs to sign up now, but I was simply stuck with inedible sunchokes. And if I do cook, I'm simply forced to eat the same thing for a week; I have nobody to share with.

I want a prescription for ethical, healthy eating that works for single, busy people, and doesn't needlessly equate consistent home-cooking with moral eating. I don't know what that solution is, but for starters, I'd be happy if the thoughtful and mostly reasonable voices for a new attitudes about food took everyone into consideration, not just the traditional families and people who consider cooking to be their hobby.

Mr. Greenwald has given a good voice to something I've been thinking for a while now. People seem to have this conception that there's this list of non-partisan business that's not getting done because congress is bickering over "partisan" issues. I'm imagining them trying to pass a resolution that "puppies are cute", but they can't because dammit, they don't agree on abortion.

The fact is, if you want bipartisanship, you want things to stay exactly where they are. Because for the most part, we all want change, but half of us have a mostly different vision of what that change is. Any change is partisan by nature, and can't really think of anything that's not politicized. So my version of politics is, make up your mind, convince as many people as you can, elect the people that represent you, try to get more elected than the other guys, and then take no prisoners.