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Sri Lanka's been in the news lately because of the Tamil Tigers thing, so that got my vote, but I'm happy to admit I know at least where all of those countries are.

Internet cookie for the first person to write a really long response to the OP.

The term "sonics" gets slung around a lot in discussions on verse to say how similar-sounding sounds sound nice in unison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry#Rhyme.2C_alliteration.2C_assonance

Japan integrates its own weirdness with the weirdest features of the US (wacky game shows, bizarre pornography, tweeny pop music, baseball) and wins this by a long shot.

It's either Rosa Parks or one of any number of people-who-tried-to-enact-social-change-and-it-ended-horribly-oh-goodness-I-hope-I-don't-Godwin.

Since you probably missed with the new page:

That's not a right. That's common decency. Your rights can't require other people to think a certain way; that violates their right to free thought.

If a majority of Quebecois support it, yes. Otherwise, no.

I didn't realize the use of certain restaurants or barbers constituted a basic human right.

If an independent masseuse doesn't want to touch me I can sue to make her. Got it.

A devout Muslim barber just moved into my town. He considers women's hair a very personal, private part of anatomy and touching their hair equivalent to sexually violating them. Would you force him to serve women? What about a female masseuse that was raped and dreads the idea of touching a...

Certain types of discrimination are illegal, but 1) sexual orientation isn't one of them and 2) I can make a reason to kick someone out up if I need to.

There's still nothing legally wrong with it. I control who enters my house, even if that allows immoral actions like allowing single mothers and their children to sit on the street in the rain on Christmas, and I can control who enters my privately-owned business. Special laws are in place for...

Maybe, but the rate of homosexuality > the rate of homosexual marriage > the rate of homosexual parents. According to the video in the OP, only about 1 in 5 gay couples are currently raising children. That brings the proportion of people that are involved in a gay child-rearing relationship...

[comment about movie that isn't on the list and is omg teh best movie ever] The Day the Earth Stood Still

Because it's cheaper and easier to do something the state already does and has the right to do (selectively distribute licenses).

It's a good idea, but it should be phased in slowly. Oh, and it hurts Obama politically because more truck-drivin' 'mericans will finish HS.

If you haven't explicitly agreed to meet, just say you have other plans and forget her. Unfriend her quietly in a few weeks.

Because many ideals are stupid.

Nothing wrong with non-dangerous labor in prison, IMO, but the guards probably shouldn't be getting the income.