What's really important, though, is how do you say "pedantry" in Chinese?

I wish you hadn't responded AC, that's a great idea and I'd love to have something like that to send as well.

Of course...of course! Dead people vote too. And you don't need a drivers license to vote either. But you do need one for buying beer, walking through an apartment for a preview, employment, driving, etc. Dude, that's AMERICA! Gotta love it!

Robert Mugabe has been honored as a leader of tourism by the UN's World Tourism Organization as of a few days ago. You can't make this shit up! The UN is that bad. And you seriously want them controlling the Internet? Next thing you know Iran will be in charge of promoting Islamic values for the "enlightenment" of the rest of the world or whatever the pandering excuse would be.

UN = Thugocracy

"It is at first denied that any radical new plan exists; it is then conceded that it exists but ministers swear blind that it is not even on the political agenda; it is then noted that it might well be on the agenda but is not a serious proposition; it is later conceded that it is a serious proposition but that it will never be implemented; after that it is acknowledged that it will be implemented but in such a diluted form that it will make no difference to the lives of ordinary people; at some point it is finally recognised that it has made such a difference, but it was always known that it would and voters were told so from the outset."
-- Times editorial, published on August 28, 2002

I read the law, there's no kill switch provision in there at all. Nobody has ever been able to point it out to me.

Bad, or worse. Pick one.

I worry about anyone that praises ignorance over knowledge. The only reason for that is allow for manipulation.

Most of the liberal press is using titles such as "NC Senate makes sea rise illegal" in order to immediately set the reader's mind to believing what the Senate is proposing is absurd. Slashdot used a fair title.

In realiity: This is 20 counties that will be financially hurt by the new (yes, new) estimate. Imagine you have plans for your county, and along comes one new report that allows a state bureaucratic unit to declare that a huge chunk of your county can no longer be developed. You get together with a bunch of other counties and petition the legislature to allow you to use your land.

The legislators are, rightfully, being responsive to the desires of those they represent.