Good Old Neon

Pepper spray has been found to be a potential contributor to death in several instances – though the evidence is admittedly sort of dubious. With that said, I’m not sure how many tests have been conducted to determine whether it’s safe to use on children – people tend to frown upon using kids as guinea pigs for those types of experiments.

I’m not quite sure an 8 year old is well enough developed, mentally and/or emotionally, to make that sort of judgment call – that’s where, one hopes, a reasonable, responsible adult steps in. The day I, as an adult (nevermind a police officer), cannot handle a stick wielding 8 year old without resorting to the use of a potentially deadly device, is the day I throw myself off a fucking bridge.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/253272/21/Eight-year-old-pepper-spayed-by-police-near-Denver

Face to face conversations are somewhat limited in that way, I suppose. Whereas communicating on the internet allows for the inclusion of other media. Say, I don’t know, gifs for example? I do most of my posting from work, as time allows. Sometimes I have a fair amount of free time, sometimes not. On those occasions that I don’t, I’ll often site other sources. At the end of the day, very few if any original thoughts and/or opinions are shared on this board or elsewhere. Like most if not all people, I’m largely a product of my influences. Most of what I’ve learned and what I know comes from l

Actually, I author(ed) the vast majority of my posts - and I was often criticized for their length and/or content. So at one point I just sort of said to myself, fuck it - read this instead.

My bottomline (using someone else's words) - from The New Yorker: If a Republican Party that has lately become rigidly, fanatically “conservative” can succeed in reducing public-sector unions to the parlous condition of their private-sector brethren, then organized labor—which, for all its failings, all its shortsightedness, all its “special interest” selfishness, remains the only truly formidable counterweight to the ever-growing political power of that top one-thousandth—will no longer be anything close to a match for organized money. And that will be the news, brought to you by a few ver

Well, if that's your impression, I have a reading list for you that might help disabuse you of it, that impression.

I recently finished Taibbi's new one, Griftopia - and damn if it didn't make me want to pretty much take up arms against these assholes.

Not to mention the Bank CEOs who bled our economy (and pension funds, etc) dry. But hey, wrecking the global economy is hard work, and they deserve to be compensated for their efforts. I have an idea, rather than go after the real culprits, let’s take it out on those corporate bloodsucking teachers who’ve spent the last century pretty much just like raping this country.

In which fox news makes yet another "honest mistake" http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/02/fox-reverses-poll-results-to-portray-public-as-anti-union/#

Correct. And for that, to a large degree, you can thank unions.

Scott Walker gets pranked, and, with any luck, finds himself deep in the shit (from what I've read, this is %100 legit) From Buffalobest.com: Koch Whore Posted by Murphy On February - 23 - 2011 Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker answers his master’s call “David Koch”: We’ll back you any way we can. What we were thinking about the crowd was, uh, was planting some troublemakers. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: You know, well, the only problem with that—because we thought about that… *** whores WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO WITNESS IS REAL. NO NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE INNOCE

Is the pissed off AOL subscriber aware that the "g" in gmail stands for "gay" - as in gaymail.com. If he's not, maybe you should inform him.

The Pixies.

And which network, may I ask, is the market of ideas profiting from? Fox makes a tidy little profit, yet its viewers are less informed than folks who get their news elsewhere.

As an atheist, if I were presented with definitive evidence proving that the universe was both created and administered by a “god” I would reevaluate my current mode of thinking. Whereas, through science and reasoning, we now know that the universe is not 6000 years old, Adam and Eve were not tricked into eating fruit by a dastardly snake, etc etc etc – yet these are still commonly held beliefs. A recent poll, I believe it was based on census data, stated that 60% of Americans accept the creationists’ view as it relates to our origins. It would certainly seem that no amount of evidence to the

Atheists attempt to approach everything scientifically. Therefore, every belief or non-belief will have a certain margin of error. Atheists do not claim to know any "absolute truths" the way dogmatic religions do. Religious people must often reject evidence that tenants of their belief system are false, based only on their faith. However, if an Atheist was to encounter evidence for the existence of god (or the Flying Spaghetti Monster), they would be forced to re-evaluate their beliefs and might possibly alter them if the evidence was compelling. It is the receptivity of Atheists to re-ev