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Personally, I love the idea of taxing addictive substances. Even more i love anti-tax advocates being addicted to said substances. The idea of people who hate taxes voluntarily paying extra taxes to do something nonsensical which will ultimately kill them fills me with a warm, fuzzy feeling...

I don't know if you intended that pun, but it was awesome either way. Although they may have trouble getting it underground.

Back then it was better to have terrorists than communists. Ah, the good ol' days; when nobody cared about consequences and Osama was our BFF. The drug problem is going to be a giant obstacle all by itself, especially given that we can't even contain it in our own country. So not only does...

Aside from noise concerns(which applies to other religions and buildings too), there are no legitimate complaints and no legal grounds from preventing this. Granted none of those people or commenter's are protesting the noise, because you know that might be logical.

Which required ending slavery, which required nearly destroying the south. It wasn't going to happen any other way. They may not have much sense, but they were smart enough to figure out that discrimination is wrong decades before the thought even entered most peoples minds. Something that...

So the one thing that we really need, we don't have. Again, that's not very reassuring. The Russians were there for a decade and we're just about to catch up. How much time does it take? Has anybody ever stayed around long enough to see if it's even possible? I might believe we had a good...

That's depressing... we have decades of technology in our favor, allies, doing a better job, and fighting a weaker enemy with less support and money. We have every conceivable advantage. Despite all that, we're in the same situation the Russians found themselves in. Once they left, their...

Given that we had to fight a war to end slavery, it took another hundred years for blacks to drink from the same fountain, and all of the craziness that still exists today we'd be in serious trouble if the federal government wasn't slapping people upside their head. It's not that the government...

It's easy to say these things in retrospect, but the simple fact is that people don't want to die. If there's a small chance of survival, most people will take it. As medicine improves, there are more chances that something will work. It used to be that if the first few attempts failed, that...

You mean like all the tax cuts we put in place before the economy collapsed? BTW, everything from dams to nuclear energy was once a pipe dream. Solar and wind aren't even ambitious, it's just a matter of getting it done. Now that space laser that Japan is building, you may have a point...

I wouldn't be surprised if it comes to that. If the relief well fails we pretty much have 2 choices left. 1- Let it leak for what could be decades, if not centuries, and try to contain it while dodging hurricanes. 2- Give it the finger and start dropping bombs till one of us is dead.

I love how they whisper the word "atheist". Something about that always makes me want to yell "BOO!"

Many think we never landed on the moon or that Justin Beiber is a great singer. All three of them get lumped into the same group by sane people.

Every thing is it's own special case. Just because a reason can support multiple arguments doesn't make it invalid. Should we throw away religion because some people use it for things we consider crazy? Or should we look at each instance as it's own special case? It's not about being "less...

If by dealing with you mean putting their jobs and freedom on the line, then yeah. If by state approval you mean not being thrown in jail, then yeah, that would be nice too.

We figured it out after weeks of investigating, everything we knew up to that point amounted to nothing, which is exactly what we know about all the other wells. The scary thing is that now that we know the causes we know it wasn't just a random act of fate. The decisions leading up to the...

Now there's the problem, we don't know. We don't know anything about the state of those rigs because we have had such lax regulations. We thought we knew enough about the Deepwater Horizon. We thought we could fix a problem if it happened. We thought the oil companies self regulating on the...

I think he means exactly what he said. IE a robber is about to take a point blank shot at somebody Scenario A, improbable cause and effect: The gun back fires and blows off the robbers hand. Definitely within the realm of probability, however unlikely and therefore not a miracle...

As far as I can tell national debt doesn't mean anything. The only countries with somewhat balanced budgets mostly suck. Nearly every western democracy that we would consider livable is running a debt that is 50%+ of their GDP. The UK isn't too far ahead of the US. That's the beauty of the...

Now that's not entirely accurate. If people like Tony Hayward spent more time praying and less time doing we'd all be better off as a result.