"Why would you do that to yourself and deny yourself the essential pleasure of eating?"

Not everyone is a foodie. Me, for instance. I consider eating to be a hassle and something that just gets in the way of other more interesting things. If I could do away sleeping as well, all the better.

Having said that I doubt I could do this 100% of the time.

Food isn't supposed to cause that much drama.

Perhaps you missed the part about Rove being a steamrolling asshole.

That also covers the US under the Bush administration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

A quote from Ron Suskind, 2004 (the aide he is referring to was later identified as Karl Rove):

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality--judiciously, as you will--we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

"The organ theft urban legend has been around for a long time..."

Urban legend? I think Charlie the Unicorn would disagree.

You seem to be missing that point that NO execution is humane.

It's not about whether or not someone who was convicted in a broken justice system "deserves" to die. It's about how executing people makes us just as bad as them. Removal from participating in daily society is enough. Let's move on from barbarity.

Nope, not to be taken literally. Religion is for show and talking points.

"Really? Deserved to be shot? Wtf?"

No, of course not. It was a joke about hating the actions of both parties. Obviously no one deserves to be shot for texting. They should be publicly hung.

Texter gets what he deserves vs. more cop brutality. My brain can't handle it.

So in other words, they were the Taliban.

"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"Give me a phone book and a week and I'll improve on every nationally elected official just picking names at randomâ¦"

You don't need a whole week.

Sociopaths rise to the top disproportionately (politicians and other power seeking people). Sociopaths make up about 3-5% of the population. Picking 10 names at random (forget even asking them any questions) would statistically get you at the very least a more decent set of human beings.

"...less classy than the Mafiaâ¦"

Wow, that's saying something. I didn't think it was even possible to be less classy than the mafia.

True. And snakes scale horizontally.

Definitely. If he was scaled up he would be a fish.