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No it isn't, but you won't listen to what I have to say, so I'll bid you good evening, sir. I enjoyed the period when we were communicating well, even when disagreeing. I hope we get back to that place sometime in the future.

Yeah, like when the corrupt fascist regime of Batista was overthrown. By Fidel Castro.

Militarize the police.

Requiring adequate nutrition and shelter is, without question, a "minimum treatment level." That's what laws do. They establish a "floor" of conduct beneath which one may not drop without drawing state sanction. The law does not require one to be a good person. It merely forbids certain...

It's racism and a police problem. Was that hard?

In what way is demanding children not be harmed and be provided the necessities of life not a "minimum treatment" level?

How bad are you willing to live with? Abuse? Neglect? Does the state not have the authority to demand a certain minimum of treatment for children? I would point out that if you don't want your kids to learn about sexuality in school, a number of options are available without insisting that...

I think you mean "That's racy!"

Since when is "attacking" suppressing? Ovi's a big boy now. I've seen you attack a good few people hereabouts. Were you trying to suppress them? Cancel them, perhaps? I recollect when conservatives tried, largely successfully, to "cancel" The Kinks when they finally figured out what "Lola"...

Yeah, I knew a girl whose parents were so repressed and repressive that she didn't realize she had been raped until she was six months along. Makes me wonder how she ever got conceived. . . A young farmboy married the lass from the next farm over. On the first night of their honeymoon, the...

So THAT's where Brian got to!

I had a girlfriend whose kids (12 and 9 at the time) would ask me questions about sex. I answered frankly and freely. The 12-year-old was fascinated. The 9-year-old quickly grew bored. To him it was complicated, academic, and uninteresting. I imagine that changed a few years later.

Nonsense. Freedom is easy and wonderful. My freedom, that is. YOUR freedom, not so much. Remember the old saying: Your freedom ends where my feelings begin. (That appears to be the actual saying. It apparently was altered just a bit for PR purposes.)

Yep, nice to see the assholishness exists on both sides. Might almost make a body believe that it's more a characteristic of power than of politics, but nah! We all know OUR side is far too wonderful to do such terrible things!

It's entirely possible for both to be problems. Let us assume your apparent conviction that racism no longer exists is correct. When exactly did it die? 1865? 1955? 1964? 2008?

Subtle forms of racism (though I question how "subtle" they are) are those whose motivation is racist, though they are couched in race-neutral terms.

The Left does seem determined to repeat the mistakes of the Right. Bookburners and suchlike. You'd think they'd draw the parallel between how the censorship and bookburning and jailing didn't stop them and. . . but alas! no.

Hmm. . . was it OK for fans to boo Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice after video was released of him coldcocking his girlfriend in a Vegas hotel elevator?

Maybe y'all could re-name it "Thetthar Street." Y'know, as in "take thet thar street four blocks or so, then turn left on t'other street. You know, the corner where there used to be a Big Boy." I always wanted to live on the corner of Thetthar and T'Other.

It's truly odd some of the things that get tagged as "racism" by people who don't know, or don't care about, what the word means. I use the terms prejudice and discrimination. Both mean judging someone by some group they (may) belong to, and attributing one's own fantasies about that group to...