What's terrible about your way of thinking?

You don't know him personally. The only attachment you have to the guy is through his very fine novels. Why should you personally feel bad about how his family and friends took the news?

It's definitely a shame.

It's interesting to note that your only possible solution for the problem of capital sitting on the sidelines is to tax it.

You should probably get out more.

Let us know when your side brings up a single program to cut. Not you personally, we can all claim "cut defense spending!" or "reduce medicare benefits!" depending on which side you're on. But your party will never do it.

Bullshit. Bellyache is a genius because of 1 person: Marcia. If Marcia Brady wasn't there, he's a .500 coach just like he was before Brady. Fuck him.

As another, this comment isn't funny. It's true.

The government allows homeopathic garbage to be sold. Tell us again how government regulation of medicine is needed?

I was just thinking the same thing (particularly the pinned tenon joints) and it pretty much blew my mind.

Something good to talk about with fellow woodworking relatives over the next couple days of endless family time!

So the tl;dr version:

We are interventionists so we have to keep being interventionists, because.... derp.

What the f*** now?

Terrible.

School IS easy if you're actually taught that learning shit is FUN. Forcing kids to endure a full year of chemistry in high school is stupid.

Everyone once in a while you get a comment like this that reminds me why /. is useful.

Thank you sir.

So you're in favor of either committing him to a mental ward against his will (read Thomas Szasz), killing a 17 y/o kid for being a dick, or having him suffer life-long physical and emotional injury due to prison rape. When the victim here says he wants to give the kid a chance.

And you're the sane, socially acceptable guy here?

Yeah right. As if any program in this Federal government was seriously in danger of being defunded. They'd just go whine to a Congressional staffer who will get that nonsense squashed.

The headline should be "there's well over 2,000 Federal government agencies and we can't find any worth closing".

Not you.
Not me.
Not government, ffs.
Social pressure. If theirs is a culture that is completely retarded in that way, let them fall on their own.