The best part is, unlike breeding normal laboratory animals, all you need to make more orphans is a PTA meeting and an assault rifle.

Darth Vader's campaign poster could be no more than a picture of Putin with the slogan 'DO NOT WANT'

As Latvian, I not give two potato about situation in Crimea.

I give one potato, but only because is very important issue.

spoken like a man who's never managed to get his balls sucked into a dustbuster

Christopher Reeve didn't so much as raise a finger to promote awareness of his condition.

That's a terrible idea. If immortality turns out to be possible, we'll likely need a few perpetual wars to help thin out the population until we have the technology to blast the excess into space.

those people don't prefer silence. they just like to listen to the same song over and over, without, one might note, ever giving a dime to the original artist.

He said half the remainder felt comfortable identifying themselves as female, and half did not. It is obtuse to suppose he believes the half that did not was comprised in part of males who failed to provide a response on the ground specified, namely that they were uncomfortable identifying themselves as females, given that if this were indeed their objection, they would simply have identified themselves as males. This option was not available to the females, unless we suppose that a significant number of the study's participants was lying, which would invalidate the results in the first place. If you are deliberately straddling the boundary between sophistry and beetle-browed obstinance, I can only congratulate you on your success.

One cannot speak to what percentage of those who did not report their sex are male and what percentage are female, nor to their motivations for withholding this information. To infer that the sex this group felt "uncomfortable" reporting was female, rather than male, is unjustified. To infer that members of this group were "uncomfortable" reporting their sex is also unjustified, given that one might refuse to disclose information for other reasons than comfort. For example, one might refuse to provide information he expects might be employed by nitwits inclined to jump to unjustified conclusions.

If that is so, then it is incorrect to infer the sex of those who preferred not to disclose it.

If half the remaining survey takers didn't reveal their sex (assuming this is in fact what is meant by the above), how can one profess to know they are female?

I successfully used this argument in court, arguing that it was free speech to flash my lights in a crowded theater. Unfortunately I was not able to get out of the numerous traffic violations required to put me in a position to exercise that right.

Where was Bono? Probably "doing some charity gig in Africa," or so he always claims...

This idea has promise. After all, keeping teens apart has long been used to stifle a more primal kind of information transfer. Indeed, hasn't some part of the human genome been patented yet? Why haven't the fundies tried to crack down on fornication using copyright law? A limited-license agreement could be written into marriage contracts.

A voluntary military has the same moral problem. If you pay people to fight wars, you're going to end up with poorer people dying in your wars.

No, but surely he is arguing that the good (reducing deaths resulting from a scarcity of organs) outweighs the bad (problems associated with an organ market).

He is making two different points, first that an organ market would be beneficial, and second, that it could become acceptable in the same way that paying an army has become acceptable, despite the fact that the latter presents a similar moral concern. One might disagree with these assertions, but they do not appear to be as incoherent as you imply.