If it is immoral for humans to eat meat isn’t it equally immoral for humans to feed meat to their pets?

“It does seem counter-intuitive that a a nutritional lifestyle that requires you to take a vitamin in order to avoid an actual illness (B-12 deficiency) could be deemed a healthful one.”

That is one of the reasons I stopped being a vegan and went back to eating a Meditteranean diet. It doesn’t make any sense to supplement a “healthy” diet with synthetic vitamins.

I did not mean that you were pontificating. My post was directed at Tearose. I mentioned you specifically only because you brought up your cat, and I have no idea if Tearose has a pet.

Were you offended/creeped out when Adrien Brody slobbered all over Halle Berry at the Oscars?

The poll about the Muslims’ views on violence is manipulated but the poll about Americans’ views on violence is correct? This kind of apologist nonsense might be part of the reason the word liberal has become an expletive in this country.

This is exactly why people react to "libruls" the way they do. We come off as arrogant and condescending. “All republicans are backward. All Christians are right-wing conservatives. All red state dwellers are ignorant.” Demagoguery and fanaticism are not exclusive to neo-cons.

That’s all I’m saying.

I read “Bloom County” from its inception, and now my kids argue over who reads “Opus” first every Sunday morning.

who is actually paying $35 an ounce?

He did a bit a few years ago on how sunscreen will be our undoing.

Vitamin D deficiency is quite serious. Besides rickets and osteoporosis (which are serious enough) there is mounting evidence that Vitamin D deficiency is associated with many forms of cancer, high blood pressure, depression, diabetes and immune system disorders such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Beautiful.

Looking for racism where there isn’t any goes against progress.

Caregivers should be prosecuted if they ever leave a child unattended to use the restroom, prepare a meal, clean up a mess or God forbid take a shower. They should be required by law to work in teams so that when one must take his or her eyes off the child, the other will be there to maintain the baby watch. And in the interest of safety, a shift change should have considerable overlap where both/all caregivers watch the child simultaneously. You can’t be too careful after all.

The problem with the Olympics and other competitions, however, is that he has an advantage over the other female athletes because of his gender. That is why there is women’s soccer, swimming, track, etc. The analogy of a girl wanting to play football is fallacious because in that case, she would have to have at least the same physical ability as the boys. How about establishing men’s competitive synchronized swimming?

Astounding.

Just thought we should give the rest of the world a chance to catch up. Oh, well, maybe in another 2,500 years…

1. It’s one small group suing, not the whole island.

2. The “plaintiffs allege that the Greek government is so embarrassed…” but the actual Greek government hasn’t said so.

3. Greeks and residents of Lesbos have always called the island Mytilini and Lesbos interchangeably.

And to the scholars commenting on Greece’s opposition to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s use of the name: read some history and the actual issues behind the controversy, then come back and enlighten us.

Hear, hear!

The only American athletes I saw singing the anthem were the women’s basketball team. I guess Phelps’ mother doesn’t know the words either.

Is it possible that this kind of condescending language is alienating working-class America and perpetuating the idea that Obama truly is elitist? As long as Obama’s supporters portray people who work with their hands and actually contribute something useful to society as uneducated and common, they condemn us to a McCain-Palin administration.

Are the black people voting for Obama aware of his tax policy, healthcare ideas, and foreign policy? Are they concerned about his lack of experience? Has anyone even asked them? Of course racism still exists in this country (and it goes both ways), but not all people hesitant about voting for Obama are racists.

Most people here consider themselves exponentially smarter than the average bumpkin. But even the average bumpkin knows not to insult the people whose votes you desperately need.

I have to say this is an extremely ignorant statement, but unfortunately it appears that most posters here and Mr. Hoyle agree with you. How is it that both Al Gore and John Kerry received roughly fifty percent of the vote then? Does fifty percent of the voting population reside in urban America? And all of those city-dwellers are well-educated Democrats?

And just for fun, let’s imagine that anyone had said that urban, black Americans are limited educationally, socially, economically and geographically. Would that be OK, or would the majority of you be deeply and irrevocably offended?

I feel like Cassandra here, but Obama’s supporters’ (not Obama’s) air of superiority will guarantee a McCain-Palin inauguration in January.

Roughly 80% of the US population is urban. So according to most of you, it is safe to say that the current state of our nation and (I fear) the soon-to-be McCain-Palin administration can be blamed on the unwashed 20%.

I hope you can all comfort yourselves with the knowledge that you’re smarter than they are.

I realize that you are so full of your own enlightenment that you couldn’t possibly be bothered to read (and understand) a post before responding. Had you been just a tad less enlightened you would have understood that I will be voting Obama. (So the trouncing doesn’t apply to me.)

This is why I worry that the Democrats are going to sabotage themselves…again.