Good Old Neon

I’m not familiar with many celebrity chefs, but after checking out your recommendations, well, Gordon Ramsey has found new employment as fish bait.

But much of that sort of behavior, both good and bad, can be observed in chimps (sans all the driving around to pick up more oranges and stuff), and insofar as we know, they neither have, nor need a god to direct their behavior, because much like us, they are a product of evolution, reciprocal altruism, etc. The bible contains a good deal of wonderful, heartwarming advice, but it also advocates and excuses some indescribably horrible actions, if both the very good and the very bad represent god's will, which will are we to follow? Based on the some of the horrible actions advocated and sanc

Kate Winslett Samantha Morton Julianne Moore Scarlet Johansson Chef Gordon Ramsey, cause someone has to cook us some damn breakfast

But then how can anyone claim to know god’s will? Claiming to live by his will, in and of itself is claiming to know the mind of god, otherwise, why assume he even has a will – that alone seems presumptuous. This is just awesome.

Same here, but I’d be willing to wager that when asked questions related to, say, why are we here, Dawkins utters the phrase “I don’t know” many times more often than most devoutly religious folks, and that, I think, is a true sign of humility, rather than someone who pleads humility, but will then go on to claim they know for sure that there is a god, and not only that, they know what he or she, but usually a he, of course, thinks. That, to me, is arrogance.

I’m not suggesting ALL (or even a majority of) Christians oppose same sex marriage, stem cell research, etc, but I would argue that, with very few exceptions, ONLY Christians, among other religious groups, oppose the aforementioned mentioned examples. I agree that Dawkins and Hitchens (among others) can come across as condescending and inflexible at times, but to suggest they are as bad, as say, a Pat Robertson, is simply inaccurate. I have, and it’s a tired, bogus, inaccurate comparison. Every time we have this debate, that corpse is dragged out, just as every time we discuss global w

When atheists, like the christianists, band together in an attempt to tread upon the basic human rights of fellow citizens based solely on wholly unsubstantiated dogmatic beliefs, when they attempt to introduce bogus scientific principles into our nation’s school’s curriculum, when they oppose the equivalent of stem cell research based purely on dogmatic, unsubstantiated beliefs, when they begin murdering people based on their profession, based purely on more of those same unsubstantiated, dogmatic beliefs, when they actively conspire to make this an “atheist nation”, by purging the political

Perhaps, but before I subscribe to your newsletter, I’d like to see some contradictory information comparable in scope to the full report. http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf

That is the most recent report of its kind.

Reality check: This is the ranking of health care systems according to the World Health Organization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO%27s_ranking_of_health_care_systems

That’s a true story Jules.

That’s not true, my grandfather was given palatial, granite-block-sized chunks of cheese and tubs of butter so large, we’d swim in them on hot summer days, minus the butter (most of the time). Of course, when my grandfather passed, and an autopsy was performed, the doctors observed that his blood looked, smelled and, as one starved intern discovered, tasted just like Cheez Wiz. At his funeral, after the hors devours were served, it was announced that cheese on the cheese and Ritz cracker combos was “donated” by our dear beloved. It was pretty incredible.

20 years from now, you along with the remaining members of your cave dwelling nomadic tribe of Mad Max rejects will spend your remaining days scouring America’s wastelands in search of the planet’s dwindling supply of canned goods, ammo, oil and wheeled transportation (and porn probably still), while also maybe trying your hardest to avoid predation by marauding packs or rogue Palinites and long forgotten celebrity Scientologists (still followed by a rag tag clutch of lamprey-like paparazzi) in search of fresh meat, oil, and human skull trophies (and, one imagines, porn). How will you survi

Should we settle our bet with dollars or Ameros®?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nsGtd7y3c

A similar remark could be made regarding your reply.

The word "witch" comes to mind. As cryptique pointed out, this is probably not the time or the place, but if we were to judge our own country’s actions by the same standards we use to judge others, we’d probably find ourselves near or at the top of the list of countries who engage in or sponsor terrorism.

From Andrew Sullivan: The Right And The Tinderbox Unemployment is over 10 percent; economic insecurity is profound; we have been occupying two deeply Muslim countries for eight years with no end in sight; we are grappling with massive debt and an attempt to provide some basic health insurance for the working poor. There are perfectly reasonable and important debates to have about all this - whether this is the time to expand health insurance, whether we should have done it years ago, whether a public option is a good thing, whether Medicare can be cut enough to save enough to make this aff

The US (and its proxies) has spread terror throughout the globe, on countless occasions, on scales both large and small - are we a terrorist organization?

This.

It sounds to me like you’re eligible for the Nobel. I’ll phone the committee.

Wow, I wish I had the power to totally mess up god’s well laid plans. You know, Speedy, you and your people could ransom the universe’s entire future for like, I don’t know, an infinite supply of just like, the most heavenly bacon.

Ah, I deleted my question.