Agreed. It's weird how the article tries to spin them as separate things. "Most cybercrime now politically motivated" would have made for a more accurate headline.

After millions of years of evolution, humans become large and at the top of the food chain,and this guy wants to override all that to make them leaf-eating midgets. So while there may never be consensus on the intelligent design notion of a higher power guiding our development, at least now we have the option for unintelligent design with a stupid power screwing it up.

Now that the cart follows you around and carries your stuff, they just need to get it to hover off the ground and technology will have caught up with first level mage spells.

Because the other news outlets were doing such a great job of covering SOPA before the protests broke out...

Democrats talk a lot about science when it comes to climate change (to justify government control of the economy), embryonic stem cells (to give abortion an upside), or evolution (out of a dislike of creationism). But where are they when it comes to science for the sake of human knowledge instead of some blatant political agenda? Obama gutted the space program. Democrats killed the Superconducting Super Collider. Nobody on the left has a bold scientific vision like Newt Gingrich's moon base proposal.

Until the 1970s, nobody ever saw an injured dog? Fish have been long believed not to experience pain, but that's way different than every species besides humans.

Have you ever considered that the difficulty getting along with the more spiritually-inclined might have less to do with them prying into your affairs and more to do with how you can't even get through a post on a completely unrelated topic without a profanity-laden bashing of their religion?

You talk about how "short" and comprehensible the Obamacare bill was. It was rammed through the House in 9 days (does anyone really study 2000 pages of legalese that quickly?) and then went through the Senate and reconciliation process over 4 months and was signed into law. Obama even set aside his campaign promise about waiting five days before signing bills because he decided doing the necessary research before signing major legislation was not important.

Then in your very next point you talk about how rejected the Keystone pipeline because of the "short timetable". A pipeline proposal that had been going around for three years is too hasty for him, but he needs like five minutes to study health care legislation? Really, that's what you're going to go with?

CowboyNeal in a giant hamster wheel.

It seemed a little odd that when a helicopter broke down a quarter mile away from a supposedly allied military base, the U.S. military would blast it to pieces rather than just asking Pakistan to keep an eye on it till it could be picked up. For a random helicopter, scuttling it in nominally friendly territory is wasteful and over-the-top, but for a super secret stealth helicopter, it's quite prudent.