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• Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
  takuan: "anti-cop"? You wound me, sir, you wound me grievously. My anti-fascism is always directed against fascists. It is mere coincidence some happen to be cops as well. The reason I gave up on you ever changing your opinion? The...
• Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
  drdilemma: It's not a race issue, it's a class issue. Dude. wtf? Gates is about as upper class as one can get without being a bajillionaire. Saying this is a "class" issue is just plain ignoring basic facts here. Comparing...
• Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
  Takuan: if Crowley is allowed to keep his job it proves the Boston police have institutionalized racism. except it was Cambridge police, not Boston police. I've pretty much given up on you ever changing your anti-cop fascism, takuan, but at...
• Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
  @137 No choice, huh?...
• Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
  antinous@167: Saying, "Get the fuck out of my house unless you show me a warrant" at least makes you Rosa Parks. Bullshit. Rosa Parks didn't say any such thing. There's this assumption that defense of liberties and social change comes...
• Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
  antinous@51: Reading BB comments on racial issues over the last two years has taught me that racism just plain doesn't exist. People are saying "this isn't racism". You could have disagreed with them on the merits of why you think...
• Commented on Myth of the Rational Market: the rise and fall of the idea of market rationality
  Wow, I liked that phrase so much I had to write it up: When you hear “invisible hand of capitalism”, you should immediately imagine some laissez-faire capitalists masturbating to some economiic porno with “Bow chicka bow wow” replaced with “cha-ching...
• Commented on Myth of the Rational Market: the rise and fall of the idea of market rationality
  Also, could someone who understands URL's and Amazon explain why the URL to The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street ends with "downandoutint-20"???? If I take downandoutint-20 off the end of...
• Commented on Myth of the Rational Market: the rise and fall of the idea of market rationality
  I think what you're trying to say is that the invisible hand of the market has hairy palms....
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  Hm, Al Gore 2012?...
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  Here is what the objectivist Ayn Rand had to say about libertarianism. Oh good grief. Rand held that the only moral social system is laissez-faire capitalism. So, as far as economics go, the difference between Objectivists and Libertarians are purely...
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  zyodei@99: But I think that pretty much everyone doesn't like bombs being dropped on their heads. That isn't the same as authority over me, that I have not in some way acquiesced to or called on myself by harming another...
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  dstntmbrk@90: Greg, you just opened my eyes! It only took a few hundred words for you to prove that libertarians do not like centralized power. Really? Uhm, no, it wasn't "Libertarians don't like centralized power". It was "If you don't...
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  Sorry, but this one just made me chuckle: zyodei@73: Government, as it exists in the world today, is an entity that cannot exist without violence. If you do not pay taxes, and continue to go about your business, you will...
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  dstntmbrk@72: A search for "gold" turns up nothing, so where exactly are these "libertarian extremists" that you write of? heavystarch@46 1. get US military off of foreign soil 2. phase out Social Security. 3. Get rid of Personal Income tax...
• Commented on Michael Jackson's everlasting death spectacle and "Paedogeddon"
  tzctlp: I know I would have never settled if I have been in the same situation. You're basing this one what premise? That no innocent person was ever wrongly convicted in a court of law? Or that no innocent person,...
• Commented on Michael Jackson's everlasting death spectacle and "Paedogeddon"
  antinous@68: And when the abuser is a pop star Ah, so MJ was convicted. I must have missed that in the news. Thanks for the info. And boy, now with all the troops in Afghanistan, maybe we'll finally be able...
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  man, this thread really brought out the libertarian extremists. Putting it into small words for the libertarian extremists out there and those pondering their words: a libertarian extremist is someone who argues economic policies based on one simple rule: they...
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  Obama is pushing Bush's "State Secrets" case further than Bush ever pushed it. Not cool. Obama is pushing "preventitive detention" even further than Bush pushed it. Not cool. What I find he-lair-ee-us is the right wingers who are putting the...
• Commented on God Bless America
  People, people, people. The image is not of Palin threatening suicide but of Palin threatening assymetrical warfare. Keep your terms straight....
• Commented on Michael Jackson's everlasting death spectacle and "Paedogeddon"
  Nearly half of americans support the idea of torturing terrorist suspects*. About half the comments in this thread want to convict Jackson of child molestation because he was accused. Congratulations America. Your concept of justice is going down the toilet....
• Commented on Scientists tour the Creationism Museum
  Einstein: "God doesn't place dice with the universe." This was Einstein's explanation as to why quantum physics was wrong. Einstein believed in a clockwork universe and felt that the idea of subatomic particles operating at a completely random fasion was...
• Commented on Scientists tour the Creationism Museum
  science never answers why things happen. You're using very confusing language to make the distinction here. Science explains why things cause things to do other things. Add a match to gasoline and boom. Shine white light through a prism and...
• Commented on Scientists tour the Creationism Museum
  OK, some odd little tidbits have crept into this thread and turned the conversation askew. So, some nudges back towards the correct direction. First, science is first and foremost based on observation and repeatability. Science does not rule out an...
• Commented on Chocolate Waterboarding (food art)
  Like Waterboarding for Chocolate Staring Johnny Depp in theaters now...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  I think they could have shortened it significantly. The dream sequences weren't needed at all. But it was kind of neat. I won't demand my 8 minutes back....
• Commented on CIA's former bin Laden expert: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."
  Glenn Beck is a tool....
• Commented on NYT and Jimmy Wales worked together to keep kidnapping news off Wikipedia
  greg: saying you support due process except when someone's life is at stake is special pleading. dan: No, that is weighing two conflicting moral principles. OK, dan, pop quiz for you: There's a serial killer on the loose. People are...
• Commented on NYT and Jimmy Wales worked together to keep kidnapping news off Wikipedia
  danmv: To really engage in the argument you would need to say why your favored principle ought to win out over the other guy's. that's not all that's been happening here. When people say they support some principle up until...
• Commented on NYT and Jimmy Wales worked together to keep kidnapping news off Wikipedia
  The fundamentalist anti-censorship ones This isn't censorship. No one was censored. civilians organized amongst themselves to not report a story. Is there really no limit to what you can say? Does being the media mean there is no responsibility...