Not so. How do I know that they are paid well? Because people line up to get those jobs. If the pay wasn't enough people wouldn't be flocking to those positions when the jobs open up. Ever see the line for people trying to get a fireman's position? It goes around the block.

How does ebola help large corporations? Stop with this brain-dead thinking. You think big corps such as McDonalds or Walmarts are helped by this? MAYBE some pharma companies are but the transportation and hospitality sector is crushed. Think bro instead of regurgitating this crap.

Lynch was not the best of folks - but his actions were in response to military action on the part of loyalists. He didn't simply say. "oh I'm going to hang people who disagree with me." If you compare the bloodletting between the American and French (and Russian, and Chinese and ...) Revolutions you'll see that the American Revolution was remarkably bloodless (as pertains people attacking their neighbors who disagree).

Again. Creativity doesn't mean making things up or lying. Now. I don't know much about accounting and it may very well be a bad example but if there is a problem to be solved, or can be done more elegantly, then that requires something more than rote work - it requires creativity (or problem solving if you will.) I know some people that don't think that programming is creative. I think it is. (And to nitpick - I think the SEC is only concerned about publicly traded companies.)

I can't speak to that. But some jobs are creative even if you don't think they are. I know some people like accounting. I don't enjoy that. But if someone enjoyed solving accounting problems then I would call that a creative job. Many of these same people (accountants) find coding to be boring. (I don't.)

That hasn't been my experience.

Google Glasses may be tainted for everyday public use but it will gain ground in business uses. Surgeons, construction managers, etc...

What!?! Creativity is needed in engineering, in programming, in law, in business, in lots of places. Creativity in these areas doesn't mean "make shit up" - it means problem solving. And problem solving requires creativity.

There was tea in India as well. So, if it's felt that he "stopped" in India - why didn't he mention it. By the way there was "tea" in Europe as well. It wasn't from the tea plant but there were plenty of herb teas - though they were thought to be more for health and medicine than taste.

Really so if we "discover" life in another star system what would you say to that? Or if other beings "discovered" us? The use of the word discovered is legitimate in the case of Columbus.

Capitalist /= cheapest. Cheapest does not equal best value for the dollar and effort.

Are you serious? It was an amazing trip. One can say anything one wants about going west (in order to go East) but until it's done it's unproven and highly experimental. You say you're Portuguese - then take another look at how long it took voyagers to go from the Canary Island to rounding the cape of Africa. It took technological innovations (the caravel among others) and decades.

Then here comes a guy who says that he'll sail west instead and you say he was a moron for mistaking the Carribean for the Indies. Yes some Persian and Arabic cartographers had accurately estimated the circumference of the globe but that doesn't mean it was universally known. Europeans (while technologically advanced in a lot of technology was still influenced by Ptolemy.

Is this a serious post, just trolling or some misguided "true believer". There's a law of supply and demand to everything including energy. One sector may do well at another's expense (which is why one shouldn't want government messing around with the economy). Big oil may suffer by this (or not) but other companies such as Tesla and other battery / storage device makers will profit. If Exxon and the Koch Brothers are smart they will be making money with or without oil. If broccoli farming made more money than oil then they would be broccoli farmers.

Truly you think that if Kim Kardasian lived in a smaller house and didn't jet set around that sustainability would be easier?

Social Conservatives are less than 25% of Republicans and are probably less than 20% of the total.

-- Then why do they get more than 50% of the vote in the primaries?

---- I don't think they do. Example Todd Akins won Missouri in 2012 with like 37% of the vote (and that was the SoCon's best effort of 2012). The Tea Party and the Establishment split the rest.

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Being religious does not equal being a social conservative.

-- Sure, some people are religious but not socially conservative... but they're usually Democrats.

---- I don't think that's true at all. You do realize that Fred Phelps (Westboro Church) was a Democrat, that in 2010 a majority of NYS Democrats were anti-gay marriage. Republicans keep thinking they will turn Pennsylvannia and Michigan Red because of all the SoCons there. But ... these SoCons vote Dem.

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It's too bad, too, because unlike the rest of the Republican candidates, he was socially-liberal enough to have a chance of beating Obama in the general election (had he run as a Republican instead of a Libertarian)..

I'm glad you voted for Gary Johnson - I did as well. But where are the non-authoritarian Democrats? Which Democrats are for shrinking the size of government? The ever-more-oppressive-and-ever-more-intrusive Federal and local government is spearheaded by Democrats. Seat belt laws, soda sizes, the rise of the nanny-state and the police powers to enforce it are coming from the Left / Progressive politicians.

How about that law that forces you to buy a product whether you want it or not? What's that called the Affordable Care act or something like that. Which authoritarian party pushed that through?