The primary feature is the large, bright, thin screen.

You think adding a webcam and a microphone adds "several hundred dollars" to the price of a new TV? More like $10 at most.

They should call it "Tape Actually Used for Ducts".

I have a vested interest in drinking clean water and breathing clean air. Both of those things have improved significantly since the 70s entirely due to federal government regulations that Conservatives and Libertarians have fought tooth and nail.

I've read Ron Paul's plan to get rid of the EPA. The idea is that after your kid dies due to toxic waste dumping, then you can sue the company for violating your property rights. The problem is that the company has an army of very good lawyers who can afford to drag the case through the courts for a decade while you go bankrupt.

That's some good No True Scotsmanning, Lou.

The problem is that Libertarians want corporations to be unencumbered by regulations to the extent that they can harm people and the environment without oversight.

So the US became the aggressor in WW2 as soon as it took actions that resulted in the deaths of any innocents?

That article has nothing to do with the percentage of bills used to buy drugs.

If you work at Groom Lake, the government flys you to work. Next time you're in Las Vegas, look for a while 737 with a red stripe.

Then refuse orders, get court marshalled, and bring attention to the situation. Posting an anonymous picture on the internet is cowardly.

If you think Helen Thomas's statement *weren't* antisimitic, then I don't know what to tell you. If she had said "Everyone of Mexican descent, event those born in the US, should go "home" to Mexico." she would have gotten a similar reaction.

I'm not seeing anything that contradicts my statement.

One or two nutjobs that nobody cares about have labeled legitimate anti-israel criticism as anti-semitic.

Yet people like you make it sound like some big widespread thing so that you can feel like oppressed victims.

Unfortunately for you, it doesn't matter what you think.

Contrary to that email, NASA did not spend a penny to develop a space pen. A private company did and then offered them to NASA, who jumped at the opportunity because they were a massive improvement over the grease pencils they had been using. They had to use grease pencils because a floating broken off graphite pencil tip would be a massive health hazard.