You don't have to "bend over backwards" to make other people's lives better. The cost to pay fast food workers a living wage works out to less than 50 per combo meal; is that "bending over backwards"?

What we as a nation have to realize is that if we took the resources we currently put into killing people halfway across the world and focused instead on improving the lives of our own citizens, we'd be far better off.

And that's how we know for a fact you're Canadian. ;)

Seriously, though, don't apologize if your statements of fact offend people. American (corporate) values are bullshit, and we've seen example after example of how they do cause harm to the American middle class. And yet we, as a nation, continue to let ourselves be distracted by "horrible" health care website rollouts and the like.

Because of this, one of my long-term goals is to move out of the United States. American hegemony is going to end, and while I'd love to see the United States gradually settle into national maturity, I fear what's coming is far more violent.

This. Statement. Is. FALSE!

(Don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it ...)

Horseshit. If the person behind you keeps a reasonable following distance, they'll have plenty of time to slam their brakes or switch lanes.

I'm pretty sure we can establish a middle ground somewhere between Somalia and North Korea.

If the wrongful death lawsuits surrounding Tazers are any indication, probably not too well.

Says someone who has clearly never read the Washington Times.

But they refuse to talk about the spying they are conducting on Americans -- spying that clearly violates Americans' Constitutional rights.

That's not going to happen as long as Web developers have bills to pay.

Tell that to the 350,000 or so people who didn't get paychecks a couple of Fridays ago.