Azalin

If you want to protect someone's psyche, don't let them enroll in competitive sports. When a boxer is being beaten to a pulp, his trainer will throw in the towel. Coaches can and should do the same if they feel some kind of irreparable harm is being done to the students. To stay in a game where you're getting your butt kicked, and then cry about how badly you were beaten, just makes you look even wimpier than if you bore the defeat with a semblance of dignity.

Whatever the reason, it's the right thing to do. It's good to see something come out of this administration that I support for a change.

What I'd like to know is how NASA and NOAA, founded in 1958 and 1970 respectively, can cite with any accuracy the specific global climate conditions as far back as 1880, as referenced in Greg's linked article. That's one of the main reasons for skepticism on my part - hypothetical points of reference for their measurements. Another is, as I have already alluded to, the fact that Earth has experienced a number of ice ages, each with a significant warming period between them, and it all happened without humanity dumping carbon dioxide into the air. How do we know that the cycle of ice ages has stopped? It's only been somewhere between 11 & 12 thousand years since the last one, and they are estimated to have begun as long as 2 1/2 million years ago. Why do people automatically assume that another one isn't coming in the future - that any warming trend occurring now isn't just another in a series of climatic cycles?

Why is the blame always placed on the coach of the winning team in cases like this? Isn't it just as 'douchey' for the coach of the losing team to not simply forfeit before the score gets completely out of hand?

Or any night, for that matter.

Keep trying.

Keep trying.

Not to mention saying people remind him of 'a dirty toilet' or launching devastating epithets like 'poop-head'.

Oh, hell no. The pajama boy schtick gets tiresome after a while. It's like turning on the television and seeing the same cheesy comedy on every channel, every day. I used to get a good laugh out of most of his stuff, but how many times can the same old tripe remain funny? He needs to change out of his onesie and put down the cocoa.

This is all just a game to you, isn't it? It's never a discussion or an attempt to actually learn anything. As long as you can reply with something - anything - no matter how ridiculous or juvenile it may sound, you believe you've scored some kind of point. You vociferously support a president as being informed enough in the field to accurately assess the nation's medical needs, yet scoff at a physician's observation that a large percentage of SSDI claims are fraudulent. And you can't see how retarded that is?

I take it that you're unaware that both Paul and his father are physicians?

This reminds me of that old joke 'what do you get when you cross a dyslexic, an insomniac, and an agnostic? Someone who lies awake all night wondering whether there really is a dog.'

Where do they get such a warped sense of entitlement from? That lady should be grateful that her son only got 3-9 years.

I'll bet you're fun at parties.

As far as science goes, climatology is still very much in its infancy. Scientific fact is based in empirical evidence, not hypothesis. In general, the Earth has been experiencing a warming trend since the end of the last ice age, yet humanity only began to industrialize about 100 years ago. To say with any certainty that humanity is or isn't responsible for climate change is simply premature, and if the science wasn't so politicized, we might actually learn the truth of it at some point.

Cheers!

I'd leave them there. It'll be cold tonight.

That's bad news for my wiener.

definitely the one in the middle.

I will. My mistake was in assuming that we were discussing Earth in the context of life, the universe, and everything.

Wow. A moderate.

Not me. The lure for me is all the hot babes.

Twice.

I thought it was 42.

The only time the Popeye's chicken is good anywhere I've been in Texas is on Tuesdays, when they sell a ton of it. Any other time, it's so hard and dry that you could drive nails with the stuff. It didn't used to be that way, but they've really gone down hill in the last 10 years or so.