SageAgainstTheMachine

Yeah, seriously. The attitude seems pretty pervasive. It's too bad that the (initially righteous) feminist movement took such a turn for the dark side some decades back. I guess you can't learn to respect yourself without learning to hate somebody else .

Killing in the name of Christ doesn't make somebody a Christian. It only implies a severe and profound misunderstanding of Christianity. That guy can CALL himself a Christian all he wants, but that doesn't make him one.

I was more referring to the other two guys. Whenever somebody enters this sort of thread to "ask" who the person is, they're doing nothing but bragging about how their life is too awesome to understand our piddling references.

Yeah, but how else are people going to prove how cool they are if they can't boldly proclaim "Why, I've never even heard of *insert vapid pop culture item here*", under the guise of being curious?

You guys have heard of google, yes? It's great at answering questions.

Thanks for the catch, Levi.

As Forrest Gump might say, crazy is as crazy does. You're trying to apply reason to a completely unreasonable situation.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; androgyny is much more pervasive in our culture than misogyny these days, and worse it's considered much more acceptable. Can you imagine if a husband drugged his wife and then committed genital mutilation on her "because she deserved it"? If he just took a knife and destroyed her vagina? I guarantee you nobody is laughing. What a disgusting video. The women on the show and the ones laughing in the audience can all go to hell.

When you're an insane killer like whoever did this, nobody is "your own people".

Well, I apologize for calling you stupid in one of my posts. It was wrong. I'm still interested in your initial assertion that Wasserman has never been of any value to anyone. That seems to be something you just arbitrarily decided, ironically linking to her wikipedia page which outlines many of the things she's accomplished in her life.

There are pop musicians and then there are MUSICIANS who happen to specialize in pop music. Ms. Germanotta is an example of the latter.

What is there to take a stand about? Which one of the D-bags is being a bigger D-bag? As for your original post, I just read Wasserman Schultz' wikipedia page that you linked to and I'm not exactly sure what your beef is. She graduated college after studying politics and helping lead the student government, and then began work as a legislator in her state and then federal governments. It also seems as if she's trying to help save the manatees. Granted, I haven't delved very deeply into her career and based on this incident with West she appears to certainly have a bitchy side, but what exactly prompts you to claim that she's "of no value to anyone."? Do you actually know that? Perhaps more to my point, if Ms. Wassermann's political views more closely resembled your own, would you have bothered to single her out as being (according to you) useless? As for West, I thank him for his service to our country in the military, and for his continuing service as a congressman. I won't even criticize the somewhat controversial nature of his retirement from the military because it sounds to me like he had the best interests of his men at heart. I respect that. But I'm sorry, when you say stuff like this... http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/08/18/113874/allen-west-islam/ I don't want you as my President. He sounds rather paranoid and xenophobic.

For his overreaction, unbefitting any man in a public office. And for failing to not act like a baby.

My bad if that came across wrong. Frankly, I don't agree with some of what you said in this thread because I think both parties are equally to blame for the conflict, but nothing you said approached the stupidity of the poster who wanted to nominate West for POTUS.

Magox, I would hazard to guess that you're the most rational regular poster here on PPP. I just wanted to say that because this was a pretty depressing thread to read before you chimed in. Two politicians acting like children, but they both get simultaneously anointed and bashed along party lines. Pretty good snapshot of American politics today.

Your coworkers need a thicker skin, or at least a more interesting hobby than NFL training camps, if a lack of football in July has turned them off from football.

Yo, but what if like...the dream world is like...real? And like...the real world has been fake like...this whole time?

You should have just done it. You still owe Tom a dollar.

Right, corporal. I used the wrong word there. Physical punishment vs. moral instruction is what I meant.

I wouldn't say I was "arguing for" our animal nature...really just acknowledging its role in a behavior (mating) that a lot of people think lies closer to the subjective side of the spectrum. There is, of course, this duality to much of what we do. Our base instincts tugging with or against our knowledge of social norms and constructs. In the very same sentence you quoted from the shoutbox, I acknowledged man's unique ability to deny his instincts. In any case, I fail to see a connection between these two contexts. There aren't any hormones in our bodies screaming "HIT YOUR CHILDREN!" like there are that scream "!@#$ THAT TEENAGER!" As for your last assertion, I wonder about this. I'd like to see research (maybe it already exists) on the relationship between violent punishment during childhood and socially acceptable behavior during adulthood. I'd never argue that parents shouldn't discipline their children and act as moral teachers. I just wonder about the actual efficacy of corporal punishment as opposed to other methods.

My opinion is that people are better off when they learn to make the personal decision that doing wrong things is wrong, rather than simply existing in a state of fear over the consequences. From a pragmatic perspective, the above opinion may not carry water. But from a humanistic perspective, I don't know if there's a valid argument for corporal punishment. I think that most people come to an awareness that they should not act immorally without the help of their father's belt. Maybe I'm wrong. I know I did, anyway.

You act as if she's on the Morgan Spurlock diet. You should show more respect. Think/say whatever you wish, but you should know that calling a woman you don't know a fat B word for eating fast food every once in a while is rather unbecoming.

Sure it has something to do with the O-line. But it also has to do with the fact that our D couldn't get off the field. Our time of possession sucked last year, and I'd venture that it was primarily the defense's fault.

Haha, that guy's an idiot. Crap.