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Quote: Originally Posted by Quixote I have no strong personal desire to keep the holiday as it is, nor do I see an abolitionist position in this particular debate as very useful or necessary. If you concede ground that society needs to work this out from the ground up, changing it on a state-level once it reaches critical mass, then you're with me on that. That was basically my stance, beyond arguing that holidays do tend to go beyond...

Yes, we should all not respect Japan less because we know all ugly Japanese men will one day shoot someone in the neck and then eat the person after having sex with the corpse. Yes.. someday soon.. near you.. BLAM! mmmmmm finger lickin' good.

Seriously? That's your reply?

http://www.topix.com/ is a cool news site that aggregates all news stories related to whatever locale you select. I have South Korea. So I get all kinds of stories about what's going on here from many different sources by just looking at this one page. It's handy. If we're talking about blogs and topic-oriented news, The Everyday Sociology Blog and Jezebel are good. For science and skepticism, The Neurologica Blog and PZ...

Could someone explain what this "mademade global warming" is? I've never heard of it.

Quote: Originally Posted by safeblad There seems to be a growing belief that it was a leak rather than a hack but its still unknown What is clear is that the information isnt fabricated. As hunkymofo pointed out the really juicy bits are fairly minimal but revealing. A lot of bloggers have done a good job of fleshing it out, I'm sure anyone could find if the are interested. Either way, whether the information was hacked or leaked is...

Quote: Originally Posted by donjuan7 What a story. Roll call of which countries are standing in the way of banning mines and cluster bombs. Oh its just the usual scum led by the Americans, Chinese, Russians and Israelis. Notice its always these countries stopping bans on weapons. The treaty was opposed by a number of countries that produce or stockpile significant amounts of cluster munitions, including China , Russia , the United States ,...

Quote: I'm sure you're right about Al Gore, but that doesn't have much to do with the BBC story, does it? The headlines appears to be about misspent funds, but actually it's about pledged money that never materialized. Maybe you were drawing a parallel regarding hypocrisy, but the Al Gore story reinforces the misleading lead on the BBC story. It's just two areas where the whole thing has become an unaccountable...

Quote: Originally Posted by Qinella Do you Brits vote for PMs? I thought you voted for MPs and the majority party's leader became the de facto PM. (And the House of Lords pour another brandy.) Maybe I have it wrong? Carry on! Indeed, that is the case. I hate the British electoral system, we need to adopt PR, but no ruling party will consider it as it means losing power. I've never voted Tory in my life, there might be a few good...

Quote: Originally Posted by kangnamdragon That must be why so many people go to the US for health care. And that must be why my ex-girlfriend came close to death and went several states beyond bankruptcy last year - because she was foolish enough to get cancer whilst working three part-time jobs, none of which provided health cover. Great system you've got there, pal.