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Yeah, you're lucky he didn't just give you a citation for not keeping your mouth shut. Dude, they're cheap. Like one big imported beer cheap. You don't need a mega-strong $200 off-road racing lamp.
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Like i said, i was a whiner. And frankly, considering how poor i was and how rarely i rode my bike and wasn't even in traffic, i'd much rather have saved the dough for one big imported beer. Gotta have priorities.

I was once warned by a cop not to ride without a headlight at night on my bike once. Fair 'nuf, but i was in well-lit park, not even on a proper road. He said that's why it was just a warning. Being a whiner, i still complained that i was a poor college student and rarely rode my bike (i walked and bused mostly), so dishing out cash for a light was hard. He suggested i ride holding a flashlight. Yeah... 'cause carrying a flashlight in one hand while steering a bike will really make me safer.

Bashir seems to think that everything in reality is a this or that, yes or no, simple enough for a soundbite kind of thing. That level of shallow, oppositional thinking is much of what is wrong with the world today. Props to Mr. Bell for not bowing to that inanity.

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Wish he'd spent more time explaining how plate tectonics is a superior fit for the evidence and less time mocking them for being able to explain where the new mass is coming from. I always find superior-fit-to-evidence to be more compelling than look-how-stupid-they-are as arguments go. The former changes minds, the latter often just pisses people off and makes them stop listening.

But still nice to have this to point people to.

Sorry, Louis. Honking is often legitimate. For instance, when the person just ahead of you in the next lane decides to change into your lane and obviously doesn't know you are there. Maybe you're in their blind spot, maybe they didn't check their mirrors, maybe they're on their cell and oblivious to the world. The point is that the honk lets them know you are there and saves you from dangerously swerving or slamming on the brakes.

But i probably most frequently use the horn to honk at stupid animals that are gonna get hit. Neighborhood dogs and cats. Idiotic deer. Or other would-be roadkill...

I don't mind population growth, so long as we have an eye toward spreading humanity beyond this one measly planet.

Cool howto, but the title is a bit dark for me.

Holy cow. That's stunning. I was impressed just a few seconds in, but then it kept going and i thought, "isn't this kinda long for this sort of thing". I was dead wrong. It just kept getting more impressive. Wow.

And did i see Bear Holding a Shark there in the audience at the end?

I so want to live there.

We used to have a calico who would go berzerk after any dogs who came onto our property whenever she had kittens (which was often, cause she had gorgeous kittens that people loved). We lived at the edge of the city and always had 2 or 3 pet cats. She was always one of those 2 or 3, despite the others regularly "disappearing" (read: eaten by coyotes). She was, quite literally, one tough mother. I saw her once chase off a big yellow lab from down the street, who i know for a fact was not a coward. But again, that was only when she had kittens. Once her babies were gone, she'd just avoid the dogs.

I'm guessing that cat is a female with a litter nearby.

I hate groupthink, it's always A vs B polarized stupidity. I've seen the pictures of babies in utero. I've bothered to notice all the people born in the second trimester living full lives. I've watched my own daughter on an ultrasound at 8 weeks old, with arms and legs wiggling and heart beating.

You're being stupid if you don't think those are human lives. Sorry, might be rude to say it, but that's how i see it. Close-minded, unthinking, willfully ignorant, etc. Believing life starts at birth might have been arguable 30 years ago when most people had never seen an ultrasound and we didn't have the medicine to support preemies that we do now. But that's just ignorant, unscientific and, frankly, heartless to still claim that.

So drop the stupid lines about women's rights and devaluing women. I've never met a pro-lifer who was pro-life for that reason. If you honestly think that's the motive, then again, you are being willfully ignorant and close-minded.

And those on the pro-life side, it'd be nice if you'd drop the "all or nothing" arrogance. Not everyone shares your theology. So legislating based on that isn't very reasonable. Wouldn't it be wiser to find an argument that should carry weight with the vast majority? How's this: allow abortions up to the point when brain waves can be detected. Fund some studies on that, get some science behind it. Allow people the choice for 2-3 months. That's plenty of time for women to become aware and do something about it.

And pro-choicers, get a clue and stop denying the humanity of the unborn. It's a losing battle. The pro-life viewpoint has been gaining in popularity for decades not because of religious ideology (which has been declining afaict), but because you're wrong. Consciousness, humanity, whatever you want to call it that makes us us doesn't start at birth. And more people get the chance to see that all the time. You can't hide that information from them forever.

Drop the all or nothing, folks.

brad sucks. and clearly doesn't know what he's doing.

Yes, trancecoach. *IF* it is mere myth. That's the whole damn question. Hitchens, of course, has his mind made up that it is nothing but myth and therefore ludicrous. Lewis, of course, had his mind made up that it was not mere myth, but rather the true story of which all myths are weakened echoes. I agree with Lewis and share his conviction that any sane person must either reject Jesus or embrace him fully. All in between is illogical.

Anyway, Hitchens does well here except that he slips in confusion talking about the immorality of "pushing" one's responsibility onto someone else. Neither Lewis nor Jesus speak of that. They speak of Jesus taking it onto himself, making it clear that this is Jesus' wish and initiative. The difference is rather crucial, unless of course you want to confuse people to bias them in favor of your rejection of Jesus.

And let's not pretend that everyone is eager to have someone stand in their place. No, pride keeps many from really accepting Jesus' offer, just look at all the legalistic Christians out there who still seem to think they are earning salvation by their works. Sure, they claim to believe Jesus, but they sure as hell don't live or love like him. No, instead they run around trying to be perfect on their own merits and end up screwing it all up with disasters like crusades, inquisitions and Fox News.

Still, it is nice to see that Jesus' self-sacrifice on our behalf remains just as he said it would: "a stumbling block to the Jews and a foolishness to the gentiles".

So, true. Obnoxious, obsessive bias on the left (MSNBC) and the right (Fox), and incompetence in wherever the hell CNN thinks it is. These are just a few of the many reasons i despise television news. And this is just the major network stuff. I hate local TV news even more.

I'll read my news, thanks. Easier to sift out the stupid, trivial stuff. Much quicker to get varied perspective. And, importantly, much easier to get a feel for the prevalence of any particular perspective.

Neil Postman was right.