...and just imagine the response when the current wave of reality TV hits them. The Kardashians alone would warrant extermination.

And yet it ranks in the top 20. Then you have a state like California that spends way more money, yet comes in in the bottom 20. And having gone to high school in Texas in a very conservative and extremely religious town, I never saw anything at all regarding creationism in biology class. Although not a whole hell of alot of evolution either. On the other hand, I did get handed chick tracts more than once from fellow students regarding evolution, which I did appreciate for the comedic value. However, while attending grad school in biology at a university in California, I came to the realization that most California students had an extremely poor understanding of evolution. Point being, evolution is covered so poorly, even in strongly secular, left wing places like California, that complaining about the effect that religious nuts have on it in conservative areas is pretty much pointless.

Netcraft confirms it!

Or perhaps, a utopian future where the amoral sociopaths aren't allowed to hold public office?

Well, then those viagra emails would be really embarrassing.

Bitch is not sexist in the same way that bastard or asshole is not sexist.

Well, I don't imagine that his fitness reports have been all that great over the last three years.

Yeah, I'm sure the Republican rural voters will be highly upset when they don't get their junk mail anymore.

And like any thief, these people knew that they'd be able to sell the Apple products for better prices than anything else. Wanting to limit their exposure, and get the most money for their risks, of course they picked the stuff that they could turn over faster and for more money. It doesn't say anything about what stuff is better, just what sells for more.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent which will reach to himself. - Thomas Paine

Oh really? I remember back after a major patch in WoW where PvP gear was mistakenly put up for nothing, and a few bans got issued for exploiting it. Not to mention the screwed up launch of LFR, where several guilds got bans that took them out of contention for world firsts because of gear exploiting the mistake by blizzard that allowed gear trading.

To be any more obvious he'd have to slap you with a wet fish with "bad satire" written on it in permanent marker.

The US is more like Rome in the late of the late Republic at this stage.

The moon's axial tilt is far less than the earth's. Only about 1.5 degrees as opposed to about 23.5 degrees for the earth. The only difficulty is that the solar arrays would have to be almost vertical, be just finding a nice hillside for them would solve that.

Some of Heinlein's early stuff was aimed at a younger audience. Red Planet, Time for the Stars, Farmer in the Sky, Podkayne of Mars, Citizen of the Galaxy, to name a few.