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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
flashedarling
Published Letters: 11 Editor's Choice: 1
As a former Pittsburgh resident I have to say yes that as sad as some may find it the opinion of Jerome Bettis does matter to Pittsburghers. It won't turn away diehard Hillary fans but it will sway alot of people who are up for grabs.
Also sonofloud just be quiet please. I'm tired of running into your inane attacks again and again. Yes we get it, you hate Obama and want to have like a million of McCain's babies.
This terminology really bothers me. I've met some really extreme libertarians who have colored my opinion of it as the worst of the "As long as I'm ok everyone else can go to hell" and "She wouldn't be raped if she wasn't so stupid" or "racism and hate crimes only exist because liberals think they do ". Even so I don't like this libertarian paternalist idea as it sounds... sleazy. It has nothing to do with libertarianism and everything to do with paternalism. Opposites which like oil and water don't mix. And they frame choice in such a way it makes it sound like you actually don't have a choice. I'd rather they say "yes, we'd like you to pay for education and healthcare" than have something along the lines of "You can spend your money however you want, as long as it is for education or healthcare".This sales pitch is a botch.
Also it is true about the status quo, most of the time whatever you set as the base state will prevail as more common even if it is effortless to opt out.
There is almost no way to disagree with the label "Pregnant Man" without being both obvious and insensitive to the GLBT community. So I'll keep this short; as long as Tom is pregnant she is a woman. Pregnancy is the ultimate female act, one that no one born genetically male can copy. This is the big one, the characteristic that either through surgical methods or choice must be forsaken to be a man. Clearly it would be a difficult decision to make between the couple and I don't blame them. Having biological children (again adoption is always an option) is more to them than preserving Tom's masculine identity. By getting pregnant she choose to stop taking male hormones and undergo the uniquely female process, taking advantage of something that no male to female transgender can experience. So as long as she is pregnant she is flaunting her biological sex in front of every man who feels like a woman and can never be, and every woman who felt like a man and made it permanent. After she has given birth I will call him by the appropriate pronouns until then I won't let her have her cake and eat it too.
Actually thermo-solar power is much more useful than the method you propose. While hydrolysis through a catalyst is interesting it is also stupidly ineffectient and not as sustainable as you claim. The major issue is you can't get energy from nothing. While there are elements such as platinum that allow this they are consumed by the reaction and would require energy to reclaim.
For some reason I don't think using up an gram of platinum per gram of hydrogen would be an efficent method. While it is an interesting phenomenon there is still no way you can get more energy than you put in. Which is why hydrogen is only a fuel transport not an energy source.
Also one useful thing about thermo-solar over photovoltiac solar is that it can keep producing energy without sunlight, sometimes after it has been cloudy for days. The trick is to have a large enough mass of the carrier fluid they heat. It will retain the heat for quite a while and continue to boil water and provide power. How much energy is contained is the temperature times the specific heat time the mass. So you can see that with enough mass and a high enough temperature you can have enough stored heat to keep things going till the sun comes back. Which makes selection of this fluid important to the design of the power plant.
I'm saddened more by the reactions I'm seeing in the letters than in the words of Wright himself. I have to wonder what is wrong with you people.
Wright isn't Obama, they are not one person who is joined at the hip. They are two seperate people who have seperate opinions. Sometimes even people you know well hold wildly different opinions than you do, but you don't go poking it with a stick because you aren't looking to break up your relationship with them so you don't know how deep they go.
I've fallen out with friends before and only then do I find out exactly how drastically our world views differ, when we were getting along we only ventured into the areas we agreed on because we didn't want to look for conflict.
Is it that the people who are posting have never been friends with someone who has crazy views, or found out later that their friends are insane after the fact. Perhaps you people just refuse to get along with people who don't believe everything you believe?
I don't believe in guilt by association. Especially after someone has broken that association. What Wright said is the opposite of everything Obama has said. The only hypocrisy you can find is Obama saying "we get along" and than later saying "we no longer get along" and if nobody else has had a relationship go south because of differences in belief that you hadn't really seen before then you have a much different life than mine.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
