Displaying 2,731 To 2,760 Of 3,373 Comments At Huffington Post, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog I mostly agree with that, K. But sometimes one person’s “bs” is another person’s deeply held truth, and I have found his certainty regarding the ascendancy and superiority of science over spirituality to be off putting. I much prefer OUR resident skeptic, KQ, who is never less than tolerant, nor is he ever snootily dismissive. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 12, 2010 @ 4:27 pm Hi, Sue, Cher; I agree with you, I have found him caustic at times, but I respect Cher’s opinion too. I guess I was just wondering if by fanning him, you get some privileges or something. I suppose that would mean being alerted to all posts and the storehouse of information they so often contain. Puzzle solved! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 12, 2010 @ 4:10 pm What is it with Hume and all the fans, anyway? Do people just feel they have to jump on the bandwagon, does he really increase the QOL of peoples’ lives over there, or is there some benefit that accrues to fanning him that I am unaware of? I’m not jealous (me and my paltry dozens of fans, ha!), I’m just wonderin’ what gives? » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 12, 2010 @ 3:45 pm Ohio’s 18th District Is Bubbling Hi Boomer, Seems like so many times, as Ohio goes, so goes the nation. Keep on fighting the fight of the reasonable in the land between two waters! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 11, 2010 @ 3:01 pm True that. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 11, 2010 @ 2:56 pm Gee, this guy sounds like Dubya redux! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 11, 2010 @ 2:55 pm A new low for Christian crazies Ha ha! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 9, 2010 @ 2:56 pm I wish I supported these guys, because I could make cool slogans for them like: Take No Chances on “Wide Stances”! Free to Pee! GOD is Watching (Yes, even THERE)! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 8, 2010 @ 11:37 pm I understand the difference, but appreciate your pointing it out. Interestingly, one could draw a parallel between humanity’s great teachers of spiritual truths throughout the ages (the “scientists”), and the “engineers”: the priests, monks, etc. who used those truths either for good or ill. But, of course, Mr. Dawkins would be much too, as you and I agree, “pompous and sure of himself” to ever allow such an analogy to interfere with his ideas about science OR religion. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 9, 2010 @ 2:07 am ha ha…I know him too, but forgot that was his name. That must have made for a pretty interesting take on my comment. “Who the heck cares what Richard Dawkins thinks, anyway?” LOL I admire MY Richard Dawkins in certain respects, but think his strident anti-religious near zealotry causes his wonderful mind to get clouded with magical thinking when it comes to the power of science and reason to right the world’s wrongs. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 8, 2010 @ 11:12 pm Richard Dawkins assures us that if society would just stop learning “Bronze Age myths” about “sky fairies” and instead learn science and reason, human cruelty would vastly decrease on our long suffering planet. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 8, 2010 @ 10:33 pm We just want to assure you that your suffering is not in violation of the Geneva Conventions. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 8, 2010 @ 10:26 pm I’m not asking everybody in the world to suddenly turn into a Bodhisattva, but wouldn’t it be a sensible and humane course of action if, you’re a chemist or chemical engineer who has gone through a rigid academic program and received top level scientific training, to NOT work on any substance that would be the last, last, LAST thing you yourself would ever want to have inflicted on YOURSELF? You don’t have to work on making gardens bloom in deserts or turning ocean water into drinking water or anything really helpful and useful, but AT LEAST………..! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 8, 2010 @ 10:04 pm In Japan, it seems like every year there is a new scandal with the approval system for textbooks. Some right wing group puts out another book that denies the Massacre of Nanjing, and glosses up the “The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”. It gets approved by conservatives in the Ministry of Education that think it’s more important to instill pride and dignity in the nation’s children than to tell them what really happened, and China and Korea express outrage. It’s Texas writ large. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 5, 2010 @ 4:46 pm Man of Steele – Episode 23: “Black Kryptonite” Maybe it would help if he compares his persecution to that of all the suffering the Jews have experienced throughout history? Oh, wait, that’s taken. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 5, 2010 @ 7:30 pm Blessed Are The Poor – But Not By Republicans Great article. Even Henry Ford, hardly a bleeding heart liberal, was of the mind that his workers by gosh better be paid enough so that they could afford his products! Too many current CEOs, and the politicians they own, think nothing like that. American industry hollows out while Indonesian and Vietnamese factory workers take home a dollar a day sewing buttons on brand fashion goods that will cost more to the rich, vain and easily swayed-by-image purchaser than the workers could afford to spend on a house. Ford would be appalled, as all thinking people are and should be. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 5, 2010 @ 7:19 am A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose … Cognitive Dissonance, Much? I’m sure. It’s no more fair to lump all Greeks together than it is any other group or nationality. Nor to attribute the words and actions of someone you disagree with, whether it’s President Obama or Arianna Huffington, to coming as a result of their ethnicity. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 5, 2010 @ 3:20 am The reason Rush, Beck and Hannity, et al. are NEVER happy about ANYTHING is because that way they can keep tipping peoples’ opinions toward the extreme. They are now calling “socialism” the very parts of the healthcare plan Mitt Romney put in place as governor. If Obama was the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, they would STILL call him socialist. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 5, 2010 @ 12:29 am Brilliant, Kiba, and much appreciated! Complete agreement. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 11:53 pm Me too. “conservadems”: read “oinkers”. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 9:33 pm I think there’s a lot of truth to that. But I think it’s also true that a lot of the loudest complaints are coming from people who voted for Obama only after their favorite candidates, Richardson, Kucinich, and Edwards, fell to the wayside. It wasn’t so much what they wanted/hoped/expected from HIM as it was from a Democratic administration working with majorities in both houses. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 9:20 pm Thanks, KQ! I agree with the half-flip argument. I am shocked, SHOCKED to learn that a politician has semi-flipped on an important issue while campaigning! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 6:51 pm Ageist! 😉 » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 6:11 pm wait wait wait…you just published an article against stereotyping, and you are implying that Arianna Huffington MUST be racist because she’s Greek? ????? » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 6:09 pm Absolutely it needs to be recognized, but in individual instances. Every time a person makes a racist remark, (and in a nod to Marion, Bill Maher has made them against President Obama) it should be pointed out and censured. But until liberal protesters start walking around with the same grotesque signs the Tea Baggers wave proudly, I’ll steer clear of calling progressivism itself tainted. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 5:58 pm I agree with your two latter causes. As to “racial stereotyping”, I concede that it may be a contributing factor, but I doubt it is a major one. I’m more concerned about painting a large number of people with whom we all here have aligned much of our thinking over the years with a “closet racist” paintbrush. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 5:46 pm Appreciated. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 5:38 pm That’s probably true. I agree with you that the vitriol is irrational. You feel that this is due to racist tendencies, and I feel it is due to the climate the Bush years engendered. I think that Rich’s friend’s assumption that people expected Obama’s “blackness” to make him more pugnacious is risible. Who the heck is he talking about? I’ve never met these guys (okay, I live in Japan, but…). » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 5:36 pm Yes, that I agree with completely. Liberals feel betrayed by an ideal, not the person that ran for president. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 5:33 pm oh, please….one video to say he broke ALL his promises? I’ll happily join with you in condemning those straw men! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 4, 2010 @ 5:27 pmComments Posted By whatsthatsound
I’D fan KQ a couple thousand times for sure!
You mean they might rupture before the Rapture?
Well, what about THESE scientists? A hell of a lot of good their training in the sciences did THEM!
You want a “demon haunted world”? Just get your engineers to crank out napalm, phosporous, etc., and you’ll get one all right!
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