"Vast, vast, VAST majority of voters?" Aren't you overlooking the fact the Obama was elected by a sizeable majority expressly promising health care reform? Aren't you ignoring the many polls that show nearly every part of the health care act is, in fact, very popular with nearly all voters polled? You're spreading Republican misinformation as if it were fact.
I'll give a counter-generalization: Women, by and large, don't even think about whether a machine makes them look more "feminine." Men, on the other hand, are apparently obsessed with the question of whether a device makes them look "masculine." I know women with Android phones and I know women who drive huge ugly trucks. I have yet to meet a man who would even consider driving a VW New Beetle, because "it's a girl's car."
The snipes at the liberal arts in this thread perfectly illustrate why engineers make excellent unthinking soldiers. If you're trained to think that all questions of value, philosophy, politics and ethics are merely the irrational quibbles of unintelligent people, then you'll never learn the subjects, or how to evaluate them critically. And if you believe that thinking about or engaging with politics is a waste of time, you will tend to uncritically accept that whatever prejudices you were raised on are "common sense," "the plain truth," or "God's revealed wisdom."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Religion is stupid.
Monty Python's Life of Brian: Religion is stupid.
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life: Religion is stupid.
I have a hard time accepting evolution in general due to the wild leaps it makes.
But positing the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent supernatural being who controls the entire universe isn't a wild leap?
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -- E. Hubbard
