Because our faith-powered rockets keep failing! I blame Joseph. He's seemed pretty doubtful that it could work, with his fancy-schmancy physics degree. His lack of faith is disturbing our rocket!

That makes sense if you don't consider defending DOMA, or seeking to have it brought under judicial review for constitutionality, to be getting anything done.

They may both say "it should be left to the states" which is true, strictly speaking. Yet they differ in the federal government's role in this decision -- specifically, whether states should be required to respect another state's decision to allow gays to marry, and whether federal employees can receive benefits tied to marriage.

This would alienate many of those who are willing to accept girls going to school in the first place. It would be somewhat analogous to trying to solve the problem people had with blacks receiving an education at all in the Reconstruction era by forcing integration 80 years early. In trying to stymie your foes, you've only succeeded in multiplying them.

Basically, the situation is more complicated than complete backward asshats willing to poison girls just to punish them for trying to become educated, and equality-of-sexes feminists.

Uh I don't think you get the import. This wasn't an attack against random women, it was an attack against women seeking an education. They are aware that they need women. They would rather those women stay at home and spit out then take care of sons rather than seek to better themselves.

The message is: Women who seek to become educated will be targeted with violence. Remain at home, weak, ignorant, and dependent. Then there will be slightly less^W^W no violence.

Naw, disingenuous. They're framing the usual BS anti-AGW arguments like "they didn't consider alternative explanations" (monumentally false) with a flimsy rhetorical device to make it sound like they're just bemoaning the current state of things which just happens to be the fault of the scientists...

Absurd and silly are synonyms. There may be a specific definition/connotation of absurd you are referring to where this is not the case, but nevertheless.

So long as the laws are specifically unequal (for example it is illegal for a man to lean over a woman in California, but not vice-versa. I've been hit with boobs against my will as a result of these policies! Good thing I'm not a little bitch) you will continue to hear scare stories.

Some women want special treatment because they're women and some women don't want special treatment positive or negative and unfortunately the goals of these two camps collide and there seems to be no rational way to serve them both equally at once.

Given the mythical situation where all else is equal, shoehorning some diversity into the workplace is good for people, because it helps them to realize that we're more the same than we are different, which is good for everyone in a country which hopes to be a melting pot.

Well if you are, then I'm right there with you. Hell, I remember seeing the guy with what looked like a homemade PID controller for his cheap smokers on that BBQ "reality" show, winning competitions and so on against people with stupendously expensive equipment and thinking "I've seen code for that." Indeed, I've been thinking harder about doing some PID projects since they're so simple (once someone else has done the hard parts.)

Congratulations, you have posted a typically self-contradictory comment and people have decided to comment on it as if it were serious. You win teh trollprize. That or you're really really dumb, but I doubt that's the case in this comment.