So its "distasteful and unnecessary" to kill a vicious dictator who used chemical weapons on this own people, allowed his sons to beat their Olympic athletes when they didn't win, and murdered anyone who stood in the way of his absolute power. Look I don't agree that we should have been in Iraq in the first place. But this man was the scum of the earth and you make it seem like he was the victim. Regardless of politics despots of his ilk should be brought to justice.

Yeah lets increase taxes on the people who create %75 of the jobs in this country. Surely punishing those who are successful is a great way to get us out of a recession. When people start getting laid off cause of knee-jerk reactions of the lamented "wealth-gap" then you can smile and say at least those bastards are paying more of their "share." Look the only fair tax is a flat tax and if you actually understood the ramifications of the shit you are shoveling, you'd understand that the very fundamental truths that have made us the most powerful nation on earth aren't rooted in class warfare politics of the rich and the poor, but equal chances for success and the lost idea of personal responsibility. The freedom to fail goes hand in hand with the freedom to succeed.

Sounds exactly like the premise of Rudy Rucker's novel, Software. A story of a man who seemingly lives forever, after he downloads his brain to a huge computer. With each passing year "far-fetched" Science Fiction inches closer to reality. I think this really enforces the imaginitive genius of these writers. Progress begins with an idea, and it seems that many of the revolutionary ideas that guide scientific progress were once mere tales of Science Fiction.