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If they had done it a month ago, a lot of fence-sitters might have voted Republican. I'm glad they did it this way, it probably cost them quite a few seats in both the House and Senate, and it means that Bush basically emascualted himself for the next 2 years. It was Pelosi's request to have a...

In cases like this, I generally side with the person who has everything to lose, not the person who with a few words on talk radio can bring down an entire career. The humor I do see, of course, is the hole dug by the extreme anti-gay crowd, to where just an allegation of homosexuality can...

Trying to denounce all believers of a single religion by the views of a single celebrity figure doesn't make any sense. For the most part you would not expect to see a moderate person seeking the spotlight, that would be left for the sensationalists. So your basic premise is false, it is not...

Well, this isn't really an apology, but I haven't seen the transcript to know if this is the whole thing or just the part they decided to print in all the news: "I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were...

It takes ~25 years for the brain to fully develop in humans. So babies are helpless, but we don't get much better for a long time after we can walk either. One measure of how advanced a species is, is how well and for how long they acre for their young. I think it takes ~18 months for a human...

Diverting over $300,000,000,000.00 to a failed war effort doesn't make a nation more secure. The US is more vulnerable today than it was 9/10/2001, and in a few years it will be even more vulnerable as a result of the windmill chasing fiasco in Iraq. So no, foolish political meanderings would...

All work is stressful. Sometimes it's boring which is stressful, sometimes we want to do something else and that's stressful, and sometimes it's busy or out of control, and that's stressful. I wear only sandals, I could care less. Others don't even take off their shoes in their own home...

All tattoos suck, but I especially hate the "I'm a 'ho" tats on the lower back, they probably have a name but I mean the ones that girls get on their lower back just above the nickel slot, and then they get old and we all know how that turns out. Nasty, just as bad as smoking or gum chewing for...

Always off for me. Sometimes people leave their shoes on in my home, then I need to clean everything. We don't demand people remove their shoes, there may be a good reason they're left on - flat feet, stink, fungi, sores, whatever. But generally people remove shoes when coming to my home, and...

I say 10/teacher, if there are 20 students then 1 lead teacher and 1 assistant. If there are 30 students, then 1 lead teacher and 2 assistants. This also allows the assistants to get real class time before taking over the class.

I don't shake hands unless it's unavoidable, and if I do then I touch nothing until I can wash them. So I'm neurotic/phobic/OCD, etc., and I know it. I should have disclosed that in my other post, I'm not really coming from an open-minded attitude with this. But seriously, I'd have to burn my...

Maybe, but I had to push my wife to stop breast feeding our kid at two years. He was going to school and starting to talk more, he looked like a little boy and not a baby, and it just began to weird me out. I'm very much in favor of two years, and after that it's obviously a family decision...

I have no problem with basic nudity. But here's the problem I do have. I get on the subway in the summer, it's 99 degrees and 92% humidity. The fat dude is naked on the seat next to me, dripping sweat from <down low>. Really, do we need this? And what about the dude/chick with herpes...

I started shaving once a month or so when I was 18 as a college freshman, I still only shave once a week, every Monday morning for the week of work. I doubt that will ever change, I am far past the point of increased hair growth...

An aside, since I have absolutely no idea of the value these days... I sold all my cards back in 1989, because I needed the money. I got maybe $3-4K total, and that was probably about what they were worth (I used to know that kind of thing). However, I now have a kid, and I really wish I had...

My opinion is different. I believe in strong discipline for my kid and all kids, but if I was ever inept enough to resort to beating/spanking/whatever, then I would get therapy and parent counseling. I hope I am smarter and more experienced than my kid. I voted for "ingenious punishments"...

It's personal, everyone's different, try it and see if you like it. I still like eating a lot of vegetarian, although we started eating fish/poultry when our kid started eating. I'm not convinced vegetarian is good for kids who are still growing, even though I was a healthy vegetarian for most...

My thought is, if you do the LI commute every day, if you're anything like me, you'll hate it and the whole experience will be affected. If you can handle the finances at all, get a subway commute (Queens, Brooklyn, Upper West Side, Harlem, etc.). Your place will be very small and too...

This has been brought up several times on the thread, but everyone is happier blaming those dang foreigners and sympathizers for taking away the rights and freedoms of true-blooded Americans. Of course the flag was not banned in general, it was just disallowed at a student-level, just like...

I'd simply refuse to meet with him. I have absolutely no desire to be around people like that.