If you think that taking reports of crime seriously means automatically assuming they're true, I must disagree with you. Lots of people have languished in prison or, worse, been executed because...

Trixie, urlove, and arthunter--

Now that you've gotten your jollies publicly slapping me around with uncharitable assumptions/interpretations about my attitudes, and nasty mischaracterizations of...

Trixie,
It would be helpful to know what you mean by being "drugged" at a bar. What happened? What kind of drug? What effect did it have? Did someone accost you? Your "warning" seems rather...

Hi Jeff, All,

There are a lot of great questions packed in here so I will do my best.

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MandT, got back to me privately, essentially supporting the original complaint on this thread (which I mostly have no opinion on, but see below), and was upset that I challenged the integrity of that...

Patrick,

I agree that Toxic Reverend's slander of you is unfounded and absurd.

One quibble, I didn't look before you stated that he does not use his actual name in his profile, so I don't...

Dear David and "Reverend",

If you have a verifiable point to make, and I believe you do, asking other to follow "links" or use search engines does nothing to help your cause. I am not sure if your...

From the number of times in your post that you tell us about the Union of Concerned Scientists and their 52 Nobel laureates, 63 National Medal of Science recipients, and 195 members of the National...

Thanks Barry for your diligence on this. I've been following this thread since the first posting from "Fraud Alert" and even my simple investigation showed that the user name was only registered on...

I can't say whether Food For Thought is well run or not (but if they've got 500 volunteers they must be doing something right! And managing an organization with 500 volunteers is a significant task!)...

PS: given that nearly all the food is donated or grown in their gardens, it actually does make a bit of sense that they wouldn't be putting much of their budget into food.....simply because they...

True stories and musings from an underground RN

In 1970, at age 19, my rotation through obstetrics as a student nurse began. I spent time in all the departments of labor and delivery, including...

In a strange way, this is actually a good sign. It shows how desperate the pro-circumcision nuts have gotten and how biased the medical journals are toward propping up this senseless, harmful,...

Yep, that ol' Irony Impairment Virus (IIV) has been making the rounds again. Must be something to do with the times.

"Happy" Fukushima Daiichi 1-6 Day!!! Whoo hooo.....

The IIV seems to even...

no problem with the rant- independent of whether the triggering event was well chosen, it was a good rant. Nothing inappropriate about it!<br>since you ask, I'll point out that within the post itself...

>>>Remember the song "Four Eyes"? Your and Braggi's reactions to Podfish's post remind me of my reaction to that song when I first heard it--totally appalled that making fun of someone had been...

Richard,

Remember the song "Four Eyes"? Your and Braggi's reactions to Podfish's post remind me of my reaction to that song when I first heard it--totally appalled that making fun of someone had...

How ironically appropriate, in this context, that you cite a couple of genocidal slave-owners as exemplars of the rights of "man"! :hilarious:


That's what I've been talking about, Mark--the...

Well said, Dixon.
Marty

Liz, even though you're almost mind-numbingly cute, I can't allow you your lapses in logic.

The fact that we can cite lots of examples of stupid, repressive laws and rules doesn't mean there...

>>>I've seen you take partial parts of people's quotes multiple times to derail or take the power out of the message. I'm not enjoying it and your arguments lose my respect by taking this...

It's been my experience, discussing this with both my professional-alliance dentists, and a friend or two over the decades, who have been, or still are, dentists, that, over the past 50-odd years,...

Tuesday morning at 6:48a.m. Dr. John Doull will join us on the Morning News. Dr. Doull served as Chairman of the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water. A 400+ page report on the EPA practice of...

Edit for Update 3/9/2012:

Dr. Mark Netherda, Sonoma County's Interim Health Officer, talks with KSRO about the status of implementation of water fluoridation in Sonoma County, beyond Healdsburg...

Jim, what you take as evils (sustainability, green planning) I take as social goods necessitated by the excessive numbers of people now living in California and on the planet. Misused for sure at...

I agree with Barry. Regardless of the organizational structure of the various Occupy camps - or lack thereof - each person involved is responsible for his or her own actions, and the question is...

I fail to see how commenters here can use language like, "the behavior of the Oakland Occupy people", if you have read the detailed account of the events of the day, and watched the video I provided....

Seen in Time Magazine:

"Trashing buildings and fighting with police is not what 99% of the 99-percenters are about"


Ellis Goldberg, a Northern California marketer who as stage Occupy-inspired...

>>>Because if we can't even freely collect the rain that falls all around us, then what, exactly, can we freely do? The rainwater issue highlights a serious overall problem in America today:...

Tars was an active and valued partipant for many years. I always appreciated his level headed point of view. Sadly, he hasn't been around here much lately. I'd be surprised and delighted if he...

>>>This is the same story as in the ancient Greek play Lysistrata (was it Euripides or Sophocles? I don't remember). I wonder if these Filipinas heard of Lysistrata, or came up with the idea on their...

I agee, and I've had meaningful exchanges with perfect strangers at various times in my life, that I really
treasure. Being truly present with another is such a gift.

For me, "real love" in the romantic sense means being so attracted to someone on several levels, and caring so much about them, that you can't imagine living without them. It's a kind of addiction....

The Harrad Experiment (1973) is a movie about a fictional Harrad College where the students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1962 book of the same name by Robert...

>>>I had read about this article and actually tried to read the article but it was technically a bit over my head. It was clearly published with an agenda of throwing confusion into the global...

Thanks for posting this.
I had read about this article and actually tried to read the article but it was technically a bit over my head. It was clearly published with an agenda of throwing confusion...

To respond to the original question: sex for its own sake is just fine and dandy. It's nearly always guaranteed to be better than whatever is on TV. Sex isn't some sinful thing that has to be with...

>>>I want to pass on some clarity about Roe v. Wade that I heard from Ron Paul. The problem with it, is that according to the Constitution, only Congress has the right to pass a law. But this law...

from borowitzreport.com:

August 15, 2011

Iowans Thought They Were Voting for ‘Batman’

Surprising Results of Exit Polls

AMES, IOWA (The Borowitz Report) – Exit polls taken after the Iowa...

S2T and cohorts,

This should probably be in "The Top 1%" thread but since we're on the subject here...

It is tiring to hear people regurgitating right-wing wrong-headed statements protecting...

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Someguy,

What you left out of your summary is that Australia is a Social Democracy with strong unions, a viable and powerful Labor Party, and a very deep and wide set of Social Services (expensive...

Who said that taxing the rich by itself would create jobs?
Obviously taxing the rich only would not solve in any significant way the negative economic situation we are in now.

When I mentioned...

You know, anytime you find that you've adopted a perspective where you're the victim, where somehow you're not getting what you rightfully should, and other less-deserving folks are either getting...

https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/human-cells-chimera/

The scientific article is open source and can be downloaded at:...

If this financial apocalypse comes to pass, as summarized in the previous/original post, isn't it to the advantage of those who owe money in dollars? If I am correct, and I'm not certain that I am, I...

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Jefferson was a brilliant and deeply conflicted human being who struggled with his own ethical dilemmas all of his life. I'm not sure how you reconcile the conflicts in Christianity of "inculcating...

The Bill of Rights arose from the Enlightenment sentiments of natural rights. Folks with your ideology always seem to pervert that fact in these discussions.

I find it completely ironic that a...