...at the end of the Cretaceous period only took about 32,000 years.

Wow, that was one slow-moving asteroid!

Yes, but you now have the option to stream your TV programming! ... uh, through your cable modem.

Sure, people have the right to express their "opinions". My observation is that most of the "experts" speaking out against AGW are funded by the oil and gas industry. What their actual opinions are is unknown - they are being paid to muddy the water and create the appearance of controversy. The industry that stands to lose if we reduce carbon emissions is actively trying to block us from doing anything through these tactics. That being the case, they are putting all of civilization at risk of long-term drastic climate effects in order to preserve their profits. People like that do deserve worse than name-calling.

Sell all your product lines in order to raise profits to the maximum?

You should be willing to pay more for their unique blend of news and comedy.

I assume you meant half-brothers there. Too bad there was no DNA testing back then to prove parentage.

Claiming the bible is true because many people mentioned in it actually existed is not valid reasoning. I could write a story about Abraham Lincoln being abducted by aliens (or fighting vampires) and that does not make it true just because he really lived. Claiming truth because family members or other followers continued to believe despite the risk of a government arresting or killing them is also bogus. History is full of people willing to be killed for their cause whether valid or not. History is also full of people blindly putting misguided faith in another person, related or not.

I've never understood how people accept this obvious mythology. History shows that religions around the world have evolved from primitive worship of spirits that lived in animals, trees, lakes, mountains, etc, to polytheistic groups of squabbling gods, to an single omnipotent god who created everything, knows everything, yet hides his existance from us and wants us to really believe in him. All those previous religions are now false and this current one is really true (no really, this time we got it right!). This God created the world in 6 days some 6-8 thousand years ago with all life in its current form, but rigged the physical laws and fossil record to look like the world originated 4.5 billion years ago with life originating some 3+ billion years ago and slowly evolving into all current forms.

God, having set up the universe to look like everything runs off the laws of physics without the need for any supernatural forces, then wants you to believe in him/her/it and will consign you to an awful place if you don't. This God lets multiple competing, sometimes contradictory, religions exist and yet makes no appearances to give anyone a clue which of those religions is correct (Hi, I'm God and I endorse this religion!), but you're screwed if you pick wrong. From my observation, 95%+ of people wind up in the same religion as their parents and relatively few actually compare and choose. Whatever religion people are brought up in, they're taught it is the only true one, everybody else is wrong and damned, and most of all, don't question the story! I scratch my head over the logic this God supposedly employed. He got tired of judging everyone on their individual merits, so he knocked up a married woman, created a son, and let the primitive folks of that day kill that son, which then somehow changed the rules on how sins were processed and going forward everyone just has a single checkbox for believes/doesn't believe. Huh?

There is supposedly a book that is blessed/guaranteed/certified/whatever to contain the word of this God and that is supposedly 100% true, but it contains some tales that are obviously false. For example, these is no evidence of a great flood covering the entire earth and wiping out all animals except a handful of each species that were on a humongous boat constructed by a primitive society. If this were true, the DNA record would show little genetic diversity in every species living today, every animal today having descended from a handful of ancestors a few thousand years ago, but that is not the case. The people who wrote the tale obviously were unaware of the sheer number of species that exist. This boat would have been overrun with the minimal breeding population of the millions of species of insects alone.

So, it sound to me like your choices are 1) believe what you were taught and don't question anything, 2) accept that, yeah probably, some kind of God exists, but the holy books are not completely accurate, 3) accept that it looks like the universe runs strictly off laws of physics and any God looks unlikely, except maybe to have started the whole thing off to run on its own, or 4) accept that there is strong evidence that everything can be explained strictly by physics and none of the supernatural explanations are very likely.

I get it why people want to believe. It's a big scary universe and it's unsettling to think that we absolutely don't matter and could walk out the door tomorrow, be hit by a car, and then gone forever. It's easy to just believe that some all-powerful being really cares about us and will take care of us for eternity after we die. It also strikes us as just plain wrong that someone who is good can be struck down at a young age while someone who is truly evil can live undetected to a ripe old age and then die peacefully in his sleep. We want there to be a reckoning at the end.

I thought the two parties had the system rigged so it is extremely difficult for anyone from a third-party to get elected.

I believe torture is against international laws that we have agreed to follow, but I haven't seen anyone charged with crimes for black prisons, extraordinary renditions, and torture.

What if they learn to put wet towels around their heads?

Hey, all the COBOL and FORTRAN programmers are dying or retiring, so any younger people who know those languages can basically write their own ticket!

"...wrote a blog post late last year lamenting musicians' earnings, a situation he blames on the Internet allowing a few to "amass staggering, unprecedented wealth" while musicians toil for tiny incomes."

Isn't that what's been happening to the rest of us who aren't in the top 1% of incomes?

Climate change measures the trend of long-term averages of temperatures around the globe.. The fact that an arctic cold front came south and caused record low temperatures for a few days in North America is called "weather". Those lows will be averaged in with all the other temperatures around the globe. If the trend is upward, then the overall climate is getting hotter. Just because it sometimes rains in the Mojave doesn't mean that it's not a desert.

and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and...

Did I miss something? I haven't read anything that said he is making money off of this.

and replaced all my furniture with exact duplicates.