Look, there is having kids and there is raising kids. And mad props and much respect to women who bear kids but the having is the relative easy part.

Raising kids is something that a lot of people don't want to do. They farm it out to nannies, the school systems etc. But its the raising that is the part that takes the most work and if at least one of the parents isn't willing to take this job on full time AND enjoy it, then couples who have kids KNOWING that they both plan to work full time or see giving up work as somehow being robbed of something shouldn't be surprised when things don't work out as planned.

The idea that playing with your dick in cubicle all day is somehow MORE valuable or rewarding an endeavor than the task of raising an infant to competent independent adulthood is insane.

Parenting properly is a task of gigantic scope and reward. It needs to be recognized as such, instead of something that can be done with a credit card and baby einstein videos.

If you didn't become an apologist for torture? Just a hunch.

I thought the whole point of stripping his seniority until after 2010 elections was to give him an opportunity to show he's a team player? I mean, I know he's not a team player, just that the seniority was to be incentive to fake it til after the elections.

I notice you don't actually say.

It couldn't be pity could it? Everything that is happening to her is all of her own doing. Whats the problem?

An industry thinks it's discovered something people like -> ruin it.

Besides it was never the sex that sold the game. Hotties were like gravy. A great game WITH jigglin titties? You got a hit. Crappy games with jigglin titties? You got MAYBE a flash in the pan if you're lucky.

Of course cooperative social behavior wasn't developed to benefit one trait or characteristic, be it hunting, care-giving, gathering or whatever. Obviously the answer is always a combination of factors.

That being said, glad to hear someone talking about the social care-giving aspects that gave human beings a wealth beyond compare, compared to current notions of wealth. Tribal society, the original and natural social organization of humans provided for its members the simple wealth of support: Cradle to tomb support.

The caller had posited that IF Mitt had won the primaries he would have beat Obama. Arguable in itself but to me whats revealing about Steele's response and what is ultimately killing the RNC is that the 'base' is the end all and be all of republican politics. Even in a hypothetical that discounted the primaries and specifically addressed the appeal of Obama v. Romney to the national electorate all Steele can think or talk about is how the base thinks and feels.

I mean all we've learned from SERE training techniques and evidence from when torture was used on our people is NOT that torture elicits information, but that it elicits whatever the torturer wants to hear. That being the case Cheney & co's use and defense of its 'effectiveness' screams out they were trying to specifically gather false information for their use.

Obviously a person better able to construct a coherent narrative of events (First this happened, that led to this other thing happening which led to this conclusion) An example of a narrative that would help someone survive and thus increase the chance of their genes being passed on, would be to look at set of tracks in the ground and say: "A rabbit came past here and it went that-a-way, and if we follow the tracks, there will be a rabbit standing in them" And as in many other survival behaviors they are practiced and honed in 'play' thus the story becomes a tool by which the young are taught how to recognize and construct, as well as the use of a narrative of events.

Since GK believes that political figures above a certain rank shouldn't be held accountable for their crimes, why it matters if corruption is uncovered?

...I'd be willing to trade in some 'commitment' for some 'action'.

...If the formula is as basic as 'King of the Hill' (Every week Hank's feeble(but not hyperbole funny like Homer's) mind is challenged with a relatively mainstream, yet new to him, idea which we then watch him come to terms with.*YAWN*) then I probably won't find it too enjoyable, which is a shame because lets face it, a whole family driven to be PC and earth-friendly, which given our free-market economy and lets face it, pure laziness is a monumental chore, is absolute comedy gold. The shame part is if it fails it'll be blamed on libs not having a sense of humor.

If they didn't sandwich 'King of the Hill' between the 'Simpsons' and 'Family Guy' it would never be watched.

Dumb and domineering is better than dumb and subservient, eh? I'm looking at you Thomas!

"She said things that are racist. In any other context, that's exactly how we would have portrayed it."

But NOT in the context in which she actually said it, eh, Tancredo? So they're going to start out their objections to Sotomayor in fantasyland, right off the bat, nice!

I recently saw a 3d Imax film, something bout the ocean, and frankly it was spectacular. There really was a feeling of being immersed (though that may be in part due to it being on an Imax screen) However I went with my kid and the problem was that they had only one size of glasses: superhuge. They appeared to have been designed for adults who wear glasses, good thinking, but for my kid, he had to hold them on with his hands. I asked if they had smaller ones, they didn't Seeing as how kids will be the primary audience they'd better start offering different size glasses