Crap. More food is thrown away daily than is necessary to feed the world. There's no supply problem, only a distribution problem. The idea we need petrochemicals to grow produce is ridiculous - but highly profitable for big agribusiness.

We fed the worl organically for 10 thousand years. When corporations invented pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides mid 20th century they coupled that with a massive advertising campaign that have effectively convinced people we can't farm without their products. Bullshit. There's zero problem with the amount of food produced. There's only a problem with the distribution model.

Our state and federal institutions are separate from our religious institutions as specified by the Constitution. In this case we have no legal requirement or even justification for doing what the majority wants. If a parent wants their children to receive a religious education they may provide that at home, church, or at a private religious school.

There is no freedom of religion, without freedom FROM religion.

Indeed, he'd give awards.

The well ingrained idea smokers generate "extra medical costs" versus non smokers is actually myth. Smokers die young. It's the non smokers who live long lives the last ten years of it in nursing homes, on dialysis, etc, that cost the system more.

The problem with pitting ISP's against the content industry is that ISP's often are the content industry. Comcast "Cable". "Time Warner Cable", AT&T sells U-Verse, etc...

Or, if 80-90% of your potential customers are willing to expend the effort of piracy rather than purchase your product, perhaps your product is overpriced. You may not feel it is. You may feel entitled to greater pay for your work. The market cares not.

I know right. These rural dwellers even demand access to public roads and electricity... The chutzpah! But seriously did it occur to you those of us residing in rural areas pay taxes also...

I'm not freaked out. My choice to avoid GMO is quite logical. You have plants engineered to resist pesticide, in the sense that they themselves are one. I'll pass on that, thanks.

That's right, ooh scary - GMO's are a bit scary. No human safety tests were done - ever. Were all just supposed to trust the warm an fuzzy Monsanto would never sell us anything bad. It's just the company who made agent orange.

Now that studies are being done, GMO's are shown to cause increased allergenicity, as well as other problems:

"Animal studies consistently indicate serious health risks associated with GM food, including infertility, immune system dysfunction, organ damage, and increased mortality. Smith warns, "The only published human GMO feeding study confirmed that genes from the genetically engineered foods transfer into intestinal bacteria of humans and that these genes continue to function."

No, farmers cross plants of the same species. Monsanto injects fish genes into tomatoes. No farmer has every done the creepy shit Monsanto does, that's just a nice sounding industry line to make folk feel safer about eating franken food.

prostate himself/herself before the high-priests of "law"

I think you meant, prostrate... prostate can mean "stand before", but prostrate works better.

Isn't that how we got in this mess?

The whole, "you mean I might have to do something? I might have to learn something? Well, that's impossible, but here's some money - you fix it for me".