Success at university is meaningless and worthless? I think there a few engineers, doctors, lawyers, educators, etc. who would disagree with you.

In statistics, that is *not* what correlation means. Two phenomena can have a high degree of correlation without either one having a causative effect on the other.

The SAT doesn't exist to gauge one's future success in life. It exists to determine eligibility for college admission. The kind of people who can do well on the SAT are the kind of people who can learn they stuff they'll be taught in college, presumably - which does not, for better or worse, generally include social skills.

Electric cars still use the roads, true, but they pollute less and this should be rewarded. Why not a gas tax and a per-mile tax, balanced to each produce about the same amount of revenue?

You mean the kids aren't using AOL accounts ironically these days?

But the existing law is total BS as well. Define "insult" in a way that can be objectively enforced, and that isn't a slippery slope toward the town government finding excuses to fine the whole town, every day. What if I claim to find the phrase "good morning" to be offensive? Can I fine you $100?

Which is it? I can see the issue with making threats against people, whether they be public officials or ordinary citizens. But insulting? Why is it not my right to say "Mayor So-and-So is a poopyhead", whether online or right to his face?

...Terrorist attack that highlights issues of freedom vs. tyranny, leads to legislation that highlights issues of freedom vs. tyranny. Cue Alanis Morissette...

What's affordable? IIRC mine costs me like $20 a month, and that includes twice-yearly checkups and cleanings and X-rays, plus any work I need done e.g. fillings etc. (except oral surgery which would go under my medical insurance). Doesn't include orthodontia though.

People plant there because one of the most important ingredients in farming is not water, or nutrients (not that those aren't also very important), but sunlight. And California has lots and lots of it.

"Crappy" is defined by more than fertility. What California's land has lots of, that the East Coast doesn't have as much of, is sunshine, which is even more difficult to ship around from place to place than water.

Haven't you? So what are you suggesting, a halt to all science?

Besides, we know it's really 10 cc. (Not really.)

I believe that the important distinction is that Chik-Fil-A is a corporation. It is a legal fiction the enjoys the empowerments and protections granted it by the state. IMO, as such, it is at least partially an agent of the state, and thus should not be permitted to discriminate. If you're a little mom-and-pop store that isn't incorporated, then go ahead and discriminate, if you ask me, as repugnant and unethical as I might personally find that to be.

And what about in the meantime? Until that libertarian fairlytale day when the "government gets out of the marriage business", why should gay people be discriminated against until then? As long as government is in the marriage business, must it not do so fairly and in a non-discriminatory manner?