“Do you really believe that you are the only person who has imagined/contemplated such a thing?”

Of course not, nor did I say any such thing. That’s why I’m so surprised that no one will take time out from insulting me to actually express their thoughts.

Several people have plenty of time to rant, but not ten seconds to imagine?

I asked how YOU would feel if you believed abortion ended a human life and there were hundreds of thousands happening each year.

Not one straight answer.

LOL. Must agree: good one, john!

I’m pro-choice, but I like to think I’m pretty good at putting myself in the other person’s shoes: want to try it? As John Lennon said: Imagine. Imagine you believe that a fetus really is a human life. That’s all: it’s easy if you try. Just use your imagination and take that perspective for just [...]

Loved the Holmes stories when I was a kid and am a fan of the CBS series “Elementary”, although I’ve been told the BBC’s “Sherlock” is better.

I really like your article, but because I think facts are important I have to point out that US voter turnout has been increasing for like 15 years. Wikipedia has a graph on it, although it does not include the 2012 figures:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout#Trends_of_decreasing_turnout

“In what other area would the media be allowed to get away with parroting outright lies about medical findings based on a political party with a clear agenda?” How about death penalty legislation regarding lethal injection? Is the science that the condemned criminal might feel pain really more solid than the science that a fetus [...]

Not trying to start an argument, I’m “just asking”, but what if your husband wanted to get a vasectomy, and you wanted another baby?

Would you feel that was something you should have a “voice in” even if the final decision was his?

You might be interested in this: “Fears of an Asian Quota in the Ivy League”

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/19/fears-of-an-asian-quota-in-the-ivy-league

“Flesh them (the BJS stats) out more and write a post.” Gods, no! Someone might think I was being “mean”. I don’t suppose you’d like to quote the part of my #5 you considered “mean”? I’m serious: what does a guy who writes about the Bible-thumping, anti-gay, anti-abortion, creationist, anti science, anti global warming and [...]

Fucking amazing. The worst goddamned President we’ve had in over 200 years has a “-D” after his name and you want to bitch about the Republicans. Obama on Bush’s data mining: “undermining our constitution and our freedoms.” Obama on Obama’s far more intrusive data mining: “striking the right balance” between security and freedom. Graham? He’s [...]

“This post was meant to show how Asians are discriminated against” What, you think I’m arguing otherwise? The BJS stats I quoted don’t break out a figure for Asians, so they must be in the “other races” category: the one with the HIGHEST per capita rate of hate crime victimization. “not everyone is racist” If [...]

“Whites are racist.” Tell her, “That’s right, they are: just like everybody else” Whites are actually a hair more likely than Blacks or Hispanics to be a hate crime victim: “There were no significant differences in rates of hate crime vulnerability for racial or ethnic groups. Whites were victimized at a rate of 0.9 per [...]

“I think that’s a fair answer.” Then it was as good as I ever hope to achieve. I don’t try to be charming or persuasive (because I kinda suck at those) but I always, always, always try to be fair. That, I am good at. We’ve had some pretty acrimonious discussions recently, OB, and one [...]

“Has there been a bigger con man in the White House than Barack Obama?”

Not sure, but I think it’s fair to say there’s never been a bigger disappointment.

“Yet somehow other countries do manage to find people to make National Healthcare work” Somehow other countries do manage to outdo us in many things: so what? Please keep in mind the two points I actually made, which were: 1) U.S. healthcare is a not proof of free market failure since it does not operate [...]

“The difference in the U.S. is the prevalence of politicians who have a strange antipathy toward government involvement in any enterprises other that the military and the police.” And other than education and healthcare and banking and telecommunication and public works and… Shall I go on? The government exerts power and influence all over the [...]

“If you have arguments and facts about why America’s government can’t manage things please present them.” Had any dealings with the IRS or the DMV lately? Or, more relevantly, Medi-Cal or Medicare? Or government sub-contractors like, say, Halliburton? How’s that government created ACA thing working out? Arguments about why government can’t manage things? Pick up [...]

Hello, wigwam and ThingsComeUndone If you check gtomkins @ 26 he or she said it better than I could (thanks, gtomkins). I’d also like to point out a slight problem with this statement by the author: “you’ll not get well-administered regulation from people who don’t believe in it.” That’s true, but so is “you’ll not [...]

“As of May 27, 2013, a majority of Americans still oppose Obamacare.” Yeah: that’s what I said. I forget where I got the 65% figure but I’ll go find it for you, if it matters. Does it? Whether the correct figure is 54% or 65% or somewhere between I think my point is still valid: [...]