Whenever I see that tag, I get ready to sigh. Sometimes I shout. I paraphrase the picture I am getting: A mixture of arrogance (I predict with certainty, except when I don't), pessimism (nothing good can ever happen), cynicism (everybody is a crook except me) and general contempt for everyone and everything (it reeks from every post) are quite remarkable...and preclude any attempt at disputation, argument or refutation. I really do wonder whatever payoff this person gets from posting this stuff here, unless it be the satisfaction of seeing other posters lose their cool and start slinging invective.

Could some inventive geek write a computer program that would put together certain stock phrases of insult and repetitions of "wisdom", with blanks for the topic-du-jour (e. g. torture, Pelosi, Clinton, etc.) to be inserted as needed, and then write these posts? (This is for those who remember "Eliza" Parry" and "Racter" from the early AI days.)

but I'll make an exception here. Reallynow, who is Obama torturing? Where? What evidence?

Is this psychobabble?

I'm not professionally qualified to sling the jargon (i. e. psychobabble) but in this layman's terms, you are either one mean contrarian cuss or a serious nut-case. or both.

I skimmed the article (fashion has never interested me much) and noticed in passing that Unlovely was being, well, unlovely again. (Is he Elephantman in disguise? is there a Freudian significance to his screen name? After all, he chose it.)

But I'll say with emphasis (and I hope without sexism, as a man of certain age who had his consciousness raised not without considerable pain over the last 35+ years)) that Michelle Obama as a total package is a fantastic woman...natural warmth, obvious super-intelligence, both in the "learned" and the emotional sense, and wildly attractive as well. She would look great in blue jeans or an evening gown, and makes an animated Barbie Doll like Ms. Prejean --- aside from her opinions --- look as phony as her "enhancements". Above all, I sense that she is "centered" (as a person) as few of us ever get to be, and as such is a real rarity in the political world. I hope I live long enough to read her memoirs!

The snarkiness, I hazard to guess, from the press is as much envy as anything else...I mean, take a peek (and a listen) to some of the doyens of cable news and imagine (if you can stand it) what must be going through their twisted heads?

"But if you buy into the soul theory then you pretty much have to believe the biblical stance that life begins when the soul enters the body as the baby takes it's first breath"

I've been try in several venues to get somebody on the vehement "pro-life" crew to give me a Biblical citation that in any way supports the position that "life begins at conception". In vain, do I point out that no less an authority than St. Augustine admitted his inability to determine when "ensoulment" occurs; in modern terms when a ball of cells becomes a human life. (Reason might suggest that without the trace of a nervous system, let alone a brain, the notion of a human life is ridiculous; but then Augustine didn't know anything about the development of an embryo...and evidently either do some of the posters here.)

No one has yet responded to this request (maybe because the passage doesn't exist?) but I will be grateful to you if you can give the scriptural source for the information in the quote above.

I'm quite fond of the passage in Exodus 21 about the penalty for inducing a miscarriage. Coupled with the famous preceding passage about "an eye for an eye" it follows by very simple logic that the miscarried (in effect, aborted) fetus is NOT a person.

But we know that logic is a tool of Satan anyway, don't we?

C-mon, Reallynow! Bark at me!