and anti-contraception

Anti-abortion, I can understand. I don't agree, but I can understand. But anti-contraception? Yes, let's all be a horrible version of China!

There is little reason to believe that these countries are better governed, and plenty of evidence that they are not.

Some links please. "Italy is a fucking mess" won't cut it.

U MAD BRO?

What are you, 12?

easy-going ass

Oooh, you were doing so well until you hit easy-going. While generally true, it's never applied to you. And it will never apply to those that question my morality, especially when you imply it's slapdash or born out of groupthink.

and the few remaining who've been here a while have grown and are mostly beyond needing to hash out arguments for and against the kinds of things we used to heatedly discuss

Except you and me then? Works for me.

and it is *now* that you want to engage in real discussion?!?

Not even close. You don't even know what my position on abortion entails. In fact, if you'd paid attention, I'd specifically gave MH42 shit not for his views but for his methods. But you had to rap my knuckles and go heavy with the whole 'slaughter of the innocents' bit. Who's taking what too seriously now?

blah blah blah

The Door. It might hit your ass on the way out.

How can anything be [cultural construct] if there are no rules to understand the difference between [cultural construct] and [cultural construct]?

Could you be more precise?

The slaughtering of the innocent should inherently be universally seen as bad.

And there are plenty of things I think are huge negatives and you don't (like the slaughtering of innocents as a byproduct of the foreign policy you've happily voted for and championed most of your life, to name just one.) What is it exactly that makes your assessments any better or more correct than mine? Answers on a postcard please.

It's not supposed to require the crafting of an argument explaining why it's bad.

Oh OK. You're a moron, and I need no further explanation anymore! That's what I've always loved about you, you make my life easier!

Do you need a logical proof that raping your mom is bad to be sure about it?

That reminds me. When was it exactly that you stopped beating your wife?

(What if it was culturally acceptable?)

You are SO CLOSE to an actual epiphany here it fucking hurts. For reals.

p.s. DR has already used the "what happened to the old you" Dear John letter meme.

And this has what to do with me?

Please try again with something more creative.

Ahh, projection, my favourite winger attribute.

Close, but no cigar. Things can indeed be bad, just not nothing else.

But thanks for trying to tell me how I think.

Canyonero!

That's a hell of a lot of bad faith in that article. Not much money and sex, though.

Don't bother replying, I'm done with you. Not because of your new-found fervor, but because the old you was a hell of a lot better at crafting an argument. If you're not going to bother, neither shall I.

Do you seriously think that Sony is one monolithic organization?

While you may be technically correct, that's still THEIR problem, not ours. Or at least it should be.

Not really. You know how much shit doesn't get covered? This is not some node, just another tiny point in a big noisy field.

Honestly, we could play this game all day if we want to talk about pet grievances the MSM fails to adequately portray, if at all. What's so special about this? You never seen a doctor go to jail before?

Which is a distinction without a difference.

Fox news is not MSM.

1. Yes it is. They may like to pretend they're special, but not they're not, just heavily spiced.

2. This tells me you STILL haven't bothered with a rudimentary google search. Don't be lazy.

I've yet to see anything from NBC, CBS, or ABC on this issue. Let alone CNN.

Which is both irrelevant to the discussion we're having and fucking insulting on an argumentative level. If you can't see that, you're not the man I friended all those years ago.

It gets worse: Do the search, except this time, do it with a wider date range. I can find articles on this dating back to at least january of this year, as well references from the initial allegations (2010) and his arrest (2011). I'd go further, but I have actual important shit to do.

You've been taken for a ride. Hope it was fun.

Welcome to the bandwagon! You're in very good company, even if you are a little late to the party. Moving on...

First of all, a Google search for 'gosnell' reveals an absolute wealth of links from many a MSM outlet covering this story.

Better yet, many of those links are similar in tone to your post, either asking or conversely, explaining why this story does or doesn't deserve its 'uncovered' status.

Perhaps you'd like to refine your JE?