Getting legislation passed to protect the environment in my home state? Lobbying my state legislature to get an open-container law passed? Playing principal horn in the national high school honor orchestra? Being selected State AP scholar of the year for my home state? Winning scholarships from every college I applied to? Working full-time to keep myself out of debt instead of drinking and partying? Maintaining and cultivating relationships with all of my family? Scoring a 1500 on the SAT without bothering to study for it?

You're right, I didn't get shit accomplished in my teenage years compared to some crackhead. Silly me!

People are under the mistaken impression that it's a lot harder and more interesting to be "bad" than it is to be "good." That's clearly because they were too lazy to bother with things like personal morality, principles, hard work, etc.

makes the silly and unfounded assumption that race is a more telling factor for ill treatment than sex. But that doesn't take into account the simple fact that approximately 232,010 people are raped or sexually assaulted every year, and the overwhelming majority of those people are women. Women are almost invariably the victims in domestic abuse cases. It isn't that non-whites aren't discriminated against: It's just that the daily discrimination and victimization of women is so routine that it isn't even discussed.

Women are frightened to go outside by themselves at night. With good reason. This means black women too.

I find it hard to believe that racism is a greater evil than sexism, when sexism is universal and insidiously "normal" whereas racism is rightly confronted, and being called "racist" is so insulting that we hesitate to honestly criticize people of other races. The author of this article imexplicably finds this fear to be evidence that racism is worse than sexism. I see it as evidence that it is socially acceptable to degrade and devalue women, whereas it is not socially acceptable to be seen as racist.

You don't know the way. You clearly have no empathy for proud white people. You clearly have no empathy for proud white women.

Why the hell would we ever listen to you?

Oh right, there's no reason.

You might think you are just like MLK but better, but we here who like MLK a lot have no interest in your verbal diarrhea.

Maybe Trasher IS Brightstar. You know, he got bored of the white-man-bigot-troll thing and decided to go for the black-man-bigot-troll thing.

Haven't seen ol' BS around here in a while, anyway.

Thrasher, from you, I take that as the grandest of compliments.

You flatter yourself if you think you've contributed anything to these discussions. Some of us are aware of our own unimportance. You are not one of those people.

You can keep on with your 'adult' business of failing pathetically to convert middle-class white liberals to your racist and strangely sexist dogma. I'll just pop on back to my happily childish world!

the last time I took seriously someone who wrote "lol lol lol" was.

Oh wait!

It was never.

Toodles, my oddly deluded friend!

P.S. What was the name of that rule of debate wherein someone who resorted to a Nazi comparison automatically lost? I forget, it's so old and tired. You are a bigot, my friend, but at least I won't call you a Nazi. The Nazi's feelings might be hurt. lol lol lol roflcopter lollerskates!

If you want others to play nicely, you should set the tone. You were the one who implied I was a Nazi first. You might think yourself quite adult-like and mature, and me childish and naive, but even on the playground it's common sense to treat others the way you want to be treated. Stop insulting me and I will gladly do the same for you. But if that is beyond you, then toughen up and get used to being called the names you call others.

The only thing worse than having to utter the words "President Huckabee" would be having to utter "President Paul."

Seriously, why the hell does anyone take Ron Paul seriously? He is a nutjob. In case you've been asleep the past decade or so, the overwhelming majority of America's problems have been caused by greedy multinational corporations and their meddling in politics. In Ron Paul's world, the slim control the government has over these corrupt monstrosities would disappear and they would police themselves.

Come on. The free market assumption that the giant corporations will police themselves and do what's best for everyone has never been proven, demonstrated, supported, etc etc. Do you really want to take power out of the hands of elected officials and dispassionate bureaucrats and into the hands of the likes of Enron and Halliburton?

This, children, is what spiritual conviction should NOT look like.

I mean, come on. "We help people. People need our help. We want to improve the world. You're either with us or not. Some people are just spectators. I see stuff and I just have to, you know, do something."

Translated into standard North American English, this reads: " "

Translated into Received Pronunciation English, it reads: " "

Seriously. The Lutherans and Methodists and Moravians etc. have disaster relief squads. Most churches offer their basements to groups like AA. Burmese monks die for the rights of their countrymen. Missionaries from numerous denominations provide aid to developing countries.

But Scientology helps people! srsly d00dz, that means it's TEH BESTEST.