Thus the fundamental failure of Marx: ignoring the reality of human nature.

That many people -- in the Russian Empire, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, China, Korea, etc, etc, -- can't just accidentally be paranoid and authoritarian.

Good socio-political theories must take people's baser instincts into account. That's the genius of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand: it presumes that people will be selfish and greedy.

Orwell wrote a book about that...

And academic leftists wonder why Communism collapsed...

"But we can do it the Right Way!!!" Yeah, sure, bud, because (modern) Liberal Arts professors have soooo much experience outside the Ivory Tower...

Let's not forget the religious fundamentalists who don't take their sick children to doctors.

Maybe it would be best if he gave her to a less obsessive relative...

The whole article is a clear indication that Auerbach and his wife are as fucked up as those Canadians trying to raise their child genderless.

ISTR a very similar story on /. regarding ASD and s/w QA from a few years ago.

Who wants to bet that Obama and Holder were great First Amendment supporters back in 1992 during the Body Count "Cop Killer" brouhaha?

Sure, even if it's limited to "don't do it, because you'll get the clap!".

And biology is a subunit of chemistry, and chemistry is a subunit of physics. Yet, we still have chemistry and biology classes.

That's... saddening. Very, very saddening.

contraception doing in a Biology textbook? Shouldn't that be taught in Health class?

Have you complained to them about the power reliability?

I live in a conservative suburb of a southern city. The state is "blue", hates taxes, and lets the power, telephone and cable companies run their lines on poles. (Part of the justification is that the water table is pretty high, and it rains a lot.) But... my house went more than a year without a clock-resetting power flicker, and that one lasted only a few seconds.
One thing that I do know that the power company does is make an annual drive through each neighborhood looking for tree branches that hang too close to the lines, and then cuts them off. Presumably, they perform other sorts of behind the scenes maintenance, in order to keep reliability so high.

These delusions indicate that you need to go back on your medications.

Gotta love democracy, eh!! Forcing people who disagree with you to do what you feel is right just warms the cockles of your heart...

I assert that most people want the government to improve society. Otherwise they wouldn't repeatedly vote for politicians who constantly increase the size of government.

Let me then rephrase my original point:
if there were more blacks on the grand jury, and that grand jury had voted not to send the case to trial, then the appearance of voting along racial lines would have been minimized. Remember: perception is reality.

Well, they do seem to be great ideas (kinda like Communism). The problem (which I do not think we can ever solve) is determining rules that do not devolve into racism and pseudo-science and thus terminating perfectly viable genes.