Anyone that still believes Right and Left are limited to donkey and elephant is ignorant. More government or less government - there's your right and left.

Also, did you check into why Republicans might have voted against certain tax breaks? Knowing what I know about recent bills Democrats have wanted passed, it probably contained a line requiring all financial transactions over $600 to include a 1099 or something equally outrageous.

Oh wait wut?

Idiotic. There are millions of things that could kill you on the road. Citing this particular instance as a reason to restrict liberty is moronic. Obviously we're not "letting the problem happen", and no one WANTS people to crash their car. You just have to understand that in a society based on liberty, you take some fucking risk.

We need to ban alcohol again? Because when I get hit and killed by a drunk driver, I'll be sure to haunt you.

This is no different than spending money on movies or booze or enjoyment in general. What do you get when you pay $15 to go see a movie? Typically sticky shoes and the memory of a lousy movie. What do you get when you buy a $15 bottle of booze? Frequent trips to the bathroom?

It's all about what you find enjoyable. Spend money on entertainment any way you wish, IMO. It all costs real money, and is worth what you feel it to be worth.

Bad analogy. A closer one would be asking to drive on the road that the worker created, but being denied the road. No one is asking for his pens and pencils. Only the product of his effort.

Right. Tell me about all the damage that little oil company did to the environment again? You know, the little guy that donated all that money to Obama's pockets?

Stop thinking R and D. They're all the same.

Be still my beating heart. A cogent, level-headed argument/comment on slashdot. And a good one at that.

lawl. Sure sure. Incidentally, I am the son of a now deposed king in a small African nation called....

Never mind that the comment section here would be on fire if GW was in the White House, or the company caught photoshopping was Haliburton or Fox News.

Why do I get the sense that the responses to the BP photochop would be much different around here if it was Haliburton doing the photo editing?

Thank the gods no one in Cancer research has ever said, "The science is settled." Or AIDS research. Or oil technology, plastics, coal, space flight. (That one I may be wrong about as it seems NASA is headed into Islam outreach.)

Provided you don't fuck with the Electoral College, I'd rally for you in Michigan.

Are they allowed to link/post/draw/imagine comics that depict Muhammad with a bomb-head?

I'd also like to see them come up with a country that has socialized medicine, that produces as many new cures and drugs as the USA. Hmmm... So long longevity.