#2: As a culture, we prize freedom the way Israel prizes "Islam" or Iran prizes "never again"

Fixed for you, after I considered the 2008 presidential debates.

Because it's just so logical to keep defending yourself from government until you're all out of bubblegum...

As someone who is kind of militantly for less government and taxation (libertarian???), I agree with your post. I think a lot of these people just think the US is worse than it is just because they haven't been elsewhere.

#2 is right... but in a bad way. Both parties are no different in the scheme of things and continue to run their scams alongside of their owners/lobbyists.

I will add two more points:

#6: The US is huge and has a lot of fertile, sparsely populated land. If worse comes to worse, if you can't find freedom from government, you could theoretically get freedom away from it. Theoretically, though.

#7: Chicks love guys with accents, and that's no secret. You can be the mysterious British gent and you can take any girl you want home who will think you're James Bond.

Never take the advice of someone telling you to live somewhere else when they haven't even been there themselves.

I just did. Now what?

I agree it's mostly pop psychology, thus why I think this article's finding is suspect.

While this does sound interesting, wouldn't the corpus callosum allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request, and then make a logical decision?

Wait, wait, nonono.I meant the corpus callosum. Not cerebral cortex. Argh, no edit feature for slashdot!

While this does sound interesting, wouldn't the cerebral cortex allow both sides of the brain to share the incoming data of a request, and then make a logical decision?

PC: Hello, I'm a PC.

Apple: Hi, I'm a Mac.

PC: Hey, Mac, that's a very professional looking suit you have on there. Quite a change: is it an Armani, by any chance?

Apple: Oh, no. I'm just here to deliver you these papers. See you in court.

*Commercial ends with "Think Different (R)" on the screen.

I don't think he's a nerd, since he never worked for the Willy Wonka Candy Company, and isn't covered in sugar.

But then you wouldn't be an independent filmmaker, and nobody on youtube takes you seriously these days unless you have a crappy camera/webcam/cell phone.

Only poorly-run state prisons have that, um, "feature," I believe. And Mac OS X shops.

Yeah, some random mod can down-vote me because they think pot is the most important issue is in this country. Get a life.

The irony of this is, twofold: One, this is the administration that that had added a huge increase to tobacco taxes, and these people think that the government is actually going to legalize marijuana? Hah hah hah! Good one.

Two, it's just sad that our country's main concern is legalizing some drug that's major benefit is to get people high. While marijuana has a lot of medical uses, and banning it is pointless, it's just pathetic that nobody cares about inflation, an overzealous foreign policy, the sick demented system of child "protection" services ruined to scam parents and ruin the family, the court system being a guilty-until-proven-innocent fiasco where the court orders you to prove your innocence and you have to pay for court costs, drugs tests, psych exams, and etc. to prove your innocence, and freedom from censorship. Nope, us Americans gotta have our weed! Gotta get high so we won't have any other problems to worry about, just pretend they don't exist with a nice pipe in front of us.

I guess there is also a third point of irony: Weed stupifies you, you'd think the government would favor deregulating it so they could tax it to the sky's limit and get more money off of you that way, while having a bunch of people too high to care about the other rights the government keeps taking away.