You're honestly saying you've never heard of Danger Mouse or the grey album? Music fan FAIL.

The plant is consuming energy while it's exposed to light. It's storing some of that energy, and it also consumes some of its stored energy later, which does release CO2. However, the plant releases a net negative amount of CO2 into the atmosphere.

A trolling 'OMG NOBAMA WILL RAISE YR TAXES!!1' gets Score: 4, Funny *Waves at freepers* Glad to see you guys are getting out and seeing other parts of the internet. Stick around and maybe learn something?

The difference is that there's piles of peer-reviewed research showing that smoking will definitely kill you. Video games, not so much.

Uh, yeah. About that. "The federal cigarette tax rose on April 1 from 39 cents a pack to $1.01." http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/04/08/ap6272107.html Anyway taxing smokers is smart, because smokers have health problems that taxpayers end up subsidizing through medicare/medicaid. Raising taxes on smokers results in fewer smokers, which results in a lower tax burden for nonsmokers. This is one where the "lower my taxes" crowd should be creaming their jeans, and instead they're whining about it.

That's the difference with Obama: he has high expectations for us, and he assumes you have a high-school education if you're going to discuss national politics. Of course this is an assumption, and we know what those can make of us.

Cigarette taxes are really just early fines for suicide, which is against the law.

This is an example of the fallacy that consuming energy requires one to expel carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. For counterexample, check out the promising new 'photosynthesis' technology that the plant world has been working on.

I'm surprised none of the stories about this mention how easy it is to VPN out of China and thus bypass any blocks they throw up.