You mean the "corporate media" like the New York Times, that used this as yet another opportunity to blame climate change?

Yep, they really sound like shrills for Big Oil with that piece.

You drastically overestimate the destructive potential of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons can end civilization as we know it. Exterminating the entire human race? Not bloody likely. Homo Sapiens are persistent little fuckers that have survived natural catastrophes far in excess of anything we're capable of doing to the blue marble with modern technology.

The living will envy the dead and all that jazz, but the human race would almost certainly survive.

Where do we send the thank you card? ;)

Not likely. Any reasonably developed country with a decent intelligence apparatus would be able to trace the drone back to its source. Conventional rules of conduct still apply when the attack isn't anonymous.

They won the Winter War in the same manner as the Russians have historically won all of their major wars, by drowning their enemies in Russian blood.

Look up the casualty ratios on the Eastern Front, even after the Red Army effectively broke the Wehrmacht's back they still managed to lose two or three Russians for every German they killed. The ratios in the beginning of the war are even more depressing, yet they regard some of those battles as their finest hour.

Do you know anything about biology, sports medicine, or nutrition? Protein is the least problematic thing in the typical American diet. The problem with the American diet is almost always an excessive intake of carbohydrates. There's a lot of reasons for this, the biggest one being the fact that carbs are cheap. A pound of generic pasta is $0.99 in most American grocery stores. You try feeding a lower middle-class family of four or more without resorting to an above average proportion of refined grains. It's not easy. Hell, I'm a single person with no dependents and a fair amount of disposable income, and my diet is still 50% carbohydrates, which is probably below average for Americans as a whole yet still quite high from my vantage point.

Carbs are cheap, quick to digest, and relatively un-filling, a nasty combination that makes it very easy to run a caloric surplus. Not so with proteins. You ever try to eat >2,500 calories a day on a high protein diet? It can be done, but it's not easy.

I know you're being a wise-ass, but the inverse of what you're describing did actually happen during the Winter War. There was an attack where the Soviet troops finally broke through Finnish lines, and appeared to have the Finns routed, only for the attack to come to a screeching halt when the half starved Soviet troops stumbled upon the Finnish field kitchens. They stopped to raid these supplies and gave the Finns to regroup and kick their ass.

The Finns also went out of their way to target Soviet field kitchens during the conflict, which exacerbated the already pathetic condition of the Soviet troops, who were being asked to fight in -40 degree weather on a diet that was barely sufficient for barracks duties. You need a very high calorie diet to survive in those temperatures, never mind effectively fight, and the Soviet rations oftentimes consisted of moldy bread. No meat, no fats, no hot soups, you try surviving in sub-zero temperatures on a diet of bread and see how long you manage to last....

A minor nitpick, but 'anti-bacterial' in that context doesn't always refer to drugs. Those hand sanitizers that are so popular are marketed as 'anti-bacterial'. They use alcohol to achieve this effect, and to the best of my knowledge there isn't a bacterium on this planet that has evolved resistance to ethanol applied in sufficient concentrations to denature proteins....

Don't be silly. He's hiding out because he's afraid of the United States. That's why he was freely roaming the streets of America's closest ally, a country with long-standing extradition agreements with the United States, and only decided to seek refuge after exhausting his appeals in the Swedish investigation.

.... not the NSA. Think of how much better off we'd all be. ;)

You need to visit Somalia to see what a "failed state hellhole" really looks like.

You should also be asking why insurers have to charge the same for men as women, in spite of women having higher healthcare costs. Then ask why the same principle hasn't been applied to auto insurance, where men invariably pay more than women.

I guess passing a major piece of social legislation effecting 20% of the economy on a completely party line vote was a bad idea, eh?

The word you're looking for is "buy-in". The GOP didn't get any. Did you seriously expect cooperation from crimson red states? That was pretty naive....

I don't think you know what the words "free" or "refrain" mean.

Here's one in my area, funded by your tax dollars. Similar institutions can be found across my State.

"I'm poor" is not an acceptable excuse to engage in sexual intercourse while having an unknown HIV status. "I'm a selfish asshole who only thinks about my own gratification" is the most likely explanation.

How do you get HIV (or any other blood-borne disease) from donating blood?