That Last One

Was from Ace of Spades commenter Moonbat_One. Sorry, I hit send too quick.

Another Astute Comment

I seem to have lost the link for this commenter's, um, comment but here it is anyway:

The heart of the Donks' problem is that they believe they're not getting their message out, and if only the American people knew what Democrats stood for they'd fall all over themselves to get to the polls to vote Dems into office.

They think their politics and ideas are solid gold, it's just their communication sucks. It never occurs to them that their communication is just fine and people know full well what the Democrats' vision for America is. The problem is that a lot of people find Liberalism and its political ideas repellent. But at the same time, Liberals are unwilling to comprimise those ideas. If anything, they believe they have to be MORE liberal, father to the Left. Moderation and erasing the clear differences between the Dems and the GOP is a political loser in their eyes, that's what the Kos Kidz believe. Markos's election win record speaks for itself about whether he's correct in this assessment or not.

Best Comment I've Read in a Long Time

He's commenting on the supposed correlation between intelligence and irreligiousity (not a word). He said "

If intelligence were consistently and strongly correlated with all character traits that we universally regard as positive (e.g., compassion, humility, courage, kindness, patience, contentment, charity, loyalty, etc. etc.), then I think I'd be more inclined to lend this argument more importance than I do now.

But the fact is that, in my estimation, intelligent people do not have the monopoly on such qualities, even in the aggregate. So even if a resistance to religiosity were a positive character trait, it doesn't immediately suggest that possessing it is a sign of intelligence.

Furthermore, the great metaphysical questions of this world have yet to be answered in any definitive way by anyone of any level of intelligence. Surely if intelligence were sufficient, we'd have some better answers by now. Given that we do not, perhaps intelligence isn't all it's cracked up to be.

But if we do finally come across someone with the intelligence to tackle such issues, then I hope we can delay him (or her) long enough to figure out a way to explain women to men. That seems like the far more important task than to get to the bottom of this whole God thing."

Love it. The first paragraph especially.

Changing the Electoral College

This idea is pretty dumb. It's a totally in-the-moment-what-can-we-do-now-to-win idea.

Cathy Seipp on gay marriage

I'll be honest. This is exactly how I feel too. Sorry, doesn't make me homophobic, and being against ILLEGAL immigration doesn't make me a bigot or racist, Tendril. We left childish and silly arguments behind when we left grade school, remember?

Link

Drug Testing Link

Love this article

Boy, Christopher Hitchens sure has his moments. This is one of them.

Is the Problem with Poverty the poverty or the inequality?

The post that CIS needs to read, but won't, and even if he did, would completely discount everything in it, because, as he has demonstrated amply in the past, he considers himself the smartest man on the planet, and is never wrong or correctable about ANYTHING.

Confronting bullies

Love this article.

Good Points all

Especially about immigration.