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Money earned is a poor way to judge art, but your previously suggested "awards" paradigm is perhaps even worse.

Actually, this plan could be a step along the road to a system of healthcare like the one in Germany - wherein severely restricted private companies offer obligatorily generous plans to be paid for by the vouchers received universally by Germans. There are multiple ways to achieve universal coverage...

I haven't played magic for a long while, but that card seems ridiculously good. Are games faster now?

Only 53% of Americans say that capitalism is better than socialism, with the rest split between "socialism is better" and "undecided". As expected, younger people are more likely to favor socialism. We are winning. Slowly. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/g...

Healthcare just passed. Watch the House live.

http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN.aspx

Er, why?

CatharzGodfoot wrote:

The Lunatic Fringe wrote:@Catharz: The IRS really is unable to disclose most of its info. Can you imagine if just anyone could go snooping around our financial data?

Yes.

Ah. I misunderstood you.

So, what we have to do to "win" in any real fashion is to do what "these fuckers" have been doing for the last thirty years - create a new culture, a new framework in which people understand the world. We've done this before - look at the swiftness with which racism has declined...

No. The United States is too important to abandon it for the other side. We can't take our toy and go home. You absolutely can take your toy and go home. All the wonderful reasons why the vast majority of my family tree came to America from abroad are the same reasons why I can and should leave it....

Well, I'd certainly agree that impassioned reasoning doesn't seem to be gaining much headway in these parts as of late. Or ever . Conservatism provides simple, easy answers (centrism provides even simpler ones: "extremists are bad, and good is defined as not being an extremist") because i...

How can these fuckers be beaten? Aldo Leopold, a prominent 20th century environmentalist writer, conceptualized the "land ethic" - the inclusion of nature in our ethical system - as the best and most lasting fashion in which to promote environmentalism. I do not fully agree, as I believe ...

That was satire (I can't tell if you know that, internet and all). Nevertheless, the bizarre and terrifying nature of the American textbook system and its dependency on Texas is a wrath--inducing subject.

How about magic item stuff?

Frank has told me I have an Oregon accent sometimes. I was born near LA, but learned to speak in Oregon. I never noticed any accent in Oregon. Accents, dialects, and registers are all covered by sociolinguistics, which should give you a hint as to why and how they form. Basically, you can get a new...

If someone - such as a parent with a gay child or a member of the Mississipi school board - is involved in the making of important decisions regarding a gay person, they have a duty to become fully apprised of the facts. The quote was from a 17 year old girl. Not a parent. Not someone making a poli...

Namely, homosexuality is not a choice. There are a lot of people who don't believe that. I'm not trying to say that they're right, but in their minds, they do see it as a choice - and the way they treat people is a reflection of that. There is easily available research documenting the fact that hom...

What sort of language is this? I don't agree with aluminum, and cream cheese, and sage grouses, and purple, and seven. Whoa... That's prime parent language right there. There are lots of times when a child does something that their parents don't like or approve of, but that - in NO way - means that...

Karl Jenkins' Adiemus.

Z Mag is not a credible source, Frank. MAYBE Covert Action Quarterly. But Z is a rag that consistently reports only one side of the story. In some sense that's only one small counter to the biased drivel coming from the other side, but it's still a biased rag. But that's only an aside. Did you read...

I'd like to thank the people of Massachusetts for electing a Republican to the Senate and effectively dooming any chance at health care reform in the United States during this administration. Good job, guys! I for one can't wait to go into bankruptcy or have my coverage dropped as soon as I come do...

Yes

FrankTrollman wrote:

The Lunatic Fringe wrote:animals

Will do.



-Username17

That brings back memories.

animals

If a vampire medic (8+ die pool) drinks two points out of a mortal, then buys two hits with First Aid to heal up the victim, can he rinse and repeat this tactic for a near eternal source of blood? I would imagine that first aid requires appropriate materials. In the case of someone who has had thei...

Er, I know. Was I unclear? A little; your original quote was Guys, the founders lived at a time when most of the population was made up of illiterate farmers, the standard system of government was monarchy, the Iroquois were a big deal, and slavery was both legal and widespread. This looked like it...