Another fool who doesn't consider documentation as being productive. Also, being able to proofread has helped me spot and fix lots of bugs in other people's code, whether c, c++, php, whatever. Doing a compile just to find a typo is lame. I stopped doing that decades ago.

So keep minimizing the damage your bad reading skills bring to the table ... because stupid is as stupid does.

Go look in your fridge. :-)

Of ot's 3x sweeter, shouldn't you be using 2/3 less?

Probably hyper from drinking too much soda.

This is really stupid. What next - don't mourn the passing of your child - in another universe they might be alive? Fat lot of good that does for anyone here - after all, neither their nor their child's doppelganger in another universe would be an exact replica.

But I'll look at the bright side - in another universe crap like this wouldn't make it to slashdot's front page.

Makes sense - after all, everything causes cancer in lab mice :-)

I don't think Bruce had many alternatives as to how he handled it - the paparazzi would have been all over this no matter how it was handled, so there was no way of keeping it secret. When that's the case, the brave thing is to embrace it (being out) and be proud of having the courage to do this knowing that it's going to be in the public eye.

Judging by the almost universal support Jenner is receiving, people like Dr. Phil ("Why bother, he's almost 80") look like neanderthals.

I don't think he'd agree that someone else who is 65 and needs help for depression or cataract surgery or a hip replacement would say "Why bother, you're almost 80?" Just goes to show that it's okey-dokey in their minds to attack people by catering to base ignorance. In their minds, ageism isn't right - unless you're trans. Sheesh.

What makes this worse is that there's less than a year between them. A real hypocrite.

A bigot is someone who treats someone else with disrespect. Saying you don't understand something, rather than throwing rocks, is a sign of respect. Discussions are better than fight-fight-fight (though sometimes it's hard to tell the difference :-)

I guess my perspective is a bit different because I know what it's like to have a fundy mind-set (after all, I was one), and I know that most of the people aren't monsters. They just believe what they've been, and I do occasionally miss the certainty) taught by people they respect.

People don't (generally) seek a religion because they want to lord it over others. They just want to do what's right. The problem arises when they classify people who don't think like they do as sinners, forgetting "for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of god."