http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 24 May 2013 14:56:48 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:56:48 or, 2) is pretending that he doesn't. Either way, his point of view is disingenuous.

I'm not sure either why atheists hang around religion blogs, unless they happen to be genuinely concerned about the deleterious effects of religion on their fellow human beings or on themselves. There's also that... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/29 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:25:17 Personally or politically.

One is an intrinsic fact of one's nature, and for which you can be denied basic human rights. The other is a frame of mind that says the universe is not driven by supernatural forces.

Sure there's a lot of hate for atheists, as there is for gays, and there is discrim... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/28 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:50:35 What could be more unserious than trademarking yourself? While there's no shortage of ways to ridicule her, this is particularly juicy.

Of course, she's arrogant enough to think she can slide on this one just like she slides on mean-spiritedness, quitterness, animal cruelality, languicide, antige... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/27 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:56:48 Let's look at the post you (after prodding) finally provided in support of the OP in this thread. You’ve carefully documented the unremarkable truth that philanthropy is a group exercise and those engaged in philanthropy constitute a community with links to each other. Forgive me if I’m not blown aw... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/26 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:07:38 In any case, thanks for pointing out my misuse of nomenclature. That's certainly crucial to the question I asked. I admire your ability to focus on what's really important in cases of judicial assassination, mass murder, child murder, mass wounding, and -- oh yeah -- attempted assassination of an el... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/25 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:40:31 While I think that many people would agree that Obama ended the year well with some notable wins, they were penny-ante transactions compared to the fact that the 'Licans had already emptied the back of the store.

Dangerously compromised healthcare reform, senseless continuation of our involvement... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/24 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:00:41 As a matter of historical interpretation, I can't for a moment compare Obama's cards to Lincoln's. Lincoln faced dissolution of the country and (although no one expected it on Inauguration Day) an unimaginably destructive civil war for which we are in many ways still paying. And whether Lincoln had ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/23 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:59:15 [b]TDC’s:[/b] Capitalism – an economic system that allows for non-labor income like profit, interest, and rent based on extended absentee ownership.

[b]WIKI’S/MINE:[/b] Capitalism – an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for a private profit; decision... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/22 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:20:53 I'm kind of proud of my response, so please forgive me.

Here's arch-dickhead John Guardino queeping and bliffing at the American Spectator about how the end of DADT marks the collapse of all that is good and holy, and my letter posted in response: http://spectator.org/blog/2010/12/21/dadt-and-lef... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/21 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:36:56 Hitler's relationship to religion was (by all reports) extremely complicated, almost certainly not in line with what we would recognize as "Christian virtues," and a force he wielded as a weapon of war and oppression -- as he did so many other forces.

But Hitler also offers a real-world example o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/20 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:45:14 burbled by Glenn Beck, snarked by Bill O'Reilly, and shrieked by Anne Coulter. It has no semantic content.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/19 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:42:35 "Gay" is not the antonym to "homophobic."

"Live and let live" is not balanced by "My way or die."

I'd agree that hating individual teabaggers is a waste of time and corrosive to the character. But applications of courage (to do what?) and tolerance (of evil?) are insufficient to bridge the div... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/18 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:56:08 It'll be a three-day wonder and fade away.

And a lot of what you say is a tad hyperbolic.

My position is that a bodyscan doesn't strike me as an unreasonable search. You may disagree, but it's not legit to say I'm throwing others' rights away because my definition of those rights differs from ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/17 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:00:55 And I've lived here for three years already -- I love the weather. The funnel-web spiders, not so much.

I've been an American abroad for half my adult life. I've seen 50 countries worse than the situation in the US is now or is likely to get. I've been in 4 or 5 more that beat the US hollow for c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/16 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:44:05 It's not an act of desperation — although there's despair aplenty to go around — but one of practicality.

Elections have consequences. The likely consequences of this one are that Republicans and their brain-damaged Tea Party sidemen make effective government impossible, throwing sand and hand gr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/15 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:42:22 And history and science prove Rand Paul both a fool and a villain: accidents *don't* just happen.

In properly run companies (and private homes, I might add), you institute broad and deep safety programs that educate, engage, and evolve your people so that you can literally approach zero accidents... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/14 Sat, 22 May 2010 07:25:56 Is being able to tell when you're being conned.

These people seem to believe that Palin has has the light of the lord gleaming out of her eyes instead of (as the adults among us recognize) the gleam of dollars. Palin is one of those grifters who, years ago, decided that working for a living was f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/13 Mon, 17 May 2010 02:36:08 They have the attention span of a mayfly, the institutional memory of Dory in "Finding Nemo," and the analytical depth of bread mold. Wave something shiny in their faces and they'll drop what they're doing and try to peck it out of your hands.

Serious people need to sort through the chaff and dec... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/12 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:55:27 The Incompetence Ray. She projects this energy wherever she goes, and people around her begin dribbling on themselves, forgetting how to spell "Cat," and running their SUVs into power poles.

Of course, in some venues, it's hard to tell whether the ray is on or off, which is why she's not been ban... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/11 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:47:17 1) The "we're batshit crazy" message will suppress the mid-right vote and kill the near-right vote.

2) The "we're politically inept" image won't help either.

3) The "we're conscienceless fucks who want you to die" theme isn't going to play well anywhere.

4) Dems are feeling their oats and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/10 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:39:35 that runs through American history like a greasy stain and *of course* has no sexual element at all.

I will, however, point out that gun laws in Australia are comparable to those in the US, and yet gun violence is statistically less common here. (Gun deaths per 100,000, US/Australia: Total 11.66/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/9 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:15:46 On other matters, yes, Australia has a much less complicated socioeconomic landscape and (outside of the uberrich) a much more even distribution of wealth across the population generally. Lots of problems -- like all human societies -- but certainly less intense than in the States. It's one of the r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/8 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:21:28 For me, the supernatural is purely fiction: not a void, but a nullity. I don't need to invest an erg of energy maintaining or defending that view, because -- for me -- it just is. I may invest an erg or two shaking my head when a believer in the supernatural (or a culture that believes) does somethi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/7 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:26:13 Let's take a selection of your statements and assess whether they're factual or opinon.

[b]#1 (Your post 117):[/b] "Its only ambiguous to those that can not or will not read the bill of rights itself along with the federalist and anti-federalist papers, and to those with an agenda - one that had ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/6 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:18:14 A more screwed-up, funny-if-it-weren't-so-tragic tinpot government can hardly be imagined.

A broad brush description of the situation is that when the Communist government fell in 1989, there was no one qualified for government service -- at all levels, from local cop to head of state -- except p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MrModerate/5 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:14:12