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• Commented on Family of Crawdaddy's Paul Williams needs help
  Not to derail, but I don't get how this is possible. I've never heard anything even theorizing that it can be caused by trauma. Are they just saying "Alzheimer's" as a catch-all phrase for brain dysfunction? There's essentially a system-wide...
• Commented on Paul Harvey (RIP)
  Yeah, celebrate the life of a compulsive liar and purported "journalist" who advocated the use of nuclear weapons on civilians. America will be both more ethical and better-informed without him. Good riddance....
• Commented on Two-headed calf (RIP)
  This calf likely had a purely phenotypic problem. So calling the calf a mutant would be inaccurate. Actually, this calf is probably a mutant, and the gene involved is probably one of the Hedgehog family of genes. Actually, probably Sonic...
• Commented on Feijoa fruits are ripe
  These things are awful. They taste like eating sandy kiwifruit custard with a eucalyptus lozenge in your mouth. While I am usually impressed by novel fruits, these things are abominations in the sight of God....
• Commented on Adult film director Max Hardcore sentenced to 4 years in prison on obscenity charges (UPDATE)
  Sekino: A lot of capital letters does not make a good argument. There are effective, legitimate ways in which to discourage the sexual exploitation of women: define the harm; find the victim; write the law. Traditional sexual exploitation jurisprudence thinks...
• Commented on Adult film director Max Hardcore sentenced to 4 years in prison on obscenity charges (UPDATE)
  Incidentally, the modern remains of obscenity laws are similar to the post-Lawrence remains of sodomy laws: they are unconstitutional unless applied in a manner that's otherwise constitutional. In several states with pre-MPC criminal codes (like Idaho and the South), prosecutors...
• Commented on Adult film director Max Hardcore sentenced to 4 years in prison on obscenity charges (UPDATE)
  How many times does someone have to say, THIS IS NOT ABOUT THIS LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT or worker safety. We all agree these are heinous degrading acts. THIS IS ABOUT SETTING PRECEDENT. Using this easily vilified piece of shit...
• Commented on Adult film director Max Hardcore sentenced to 4 years in prison on obscenity charges (UPDATE)
  Even if you accept that Max Hardcore has a right to depict what he depicts in pornography, that does not give him the concomitant right to commit the acts he commits in order to film them. There is a legitimate...
• Commented on Predictions about China's future
  For instance, the idea of freedom of speech does not translate all that well into Chinese culture. To some degree, you will find that almost all Chinese believe that there are certain types of speech can "incite" bad behavior and...
• Commented on Contagious cancer
  Incidentally, this is the same reason that Bush's stem-cell research compromise isn't a compromise at all: stem-cell cultures invariably turn cancerous. The evolutionary incentives for unicellular life are wildly different from those for multicellular life. In culture, stem cells lose...