How far they have fallen.

First you're drawing energy from your surroundings, including such low-level sources as light, temperature changes and the next thing you know, you're sucking the energy out of a Star Ship's Warp Coils.

Slippery Slope if I ever saw one.

I'm afraid Libel doesn't mean what you and Mann think it means.

Mimophant is a made up, bullshit word that isn't in any dictionary except for the "wiki" dictionaries where anyone can make up anything.

Intelligence is a meaningless label assigned to a collection of attributes. Those attributes change with time and circumstances.

Keep in mind that the ultimate test of intelligence is survival.

FacePalm!

Al Gore proved himself to be a World Class Prick with his cheap stunts like shuffling his papers, sighing, and inching ever closer to GWB while he was talking during the first debate.

Mann is so certain of his Science, he's suing people that dispute it.

Ha!

I do believe he was working in the patent office at the time or thereabouts. He was looking for a job in academia if I remember the documentary correctly. Not quite the QuickieMart, but not really in his degree area either.

Don't you know? Death by gun is less dead than death by anything else.

At least one Lefty disagrees.

Yep, dictators are only interested in Religion if it can be used as a tool in their quest to attain and/or maintain power.

And a fucking chicken in every pot.

Get ready for more perhaps. That's all he's saying.

Except Taxes are not driven by supply and demand.