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@0bjective2All In a similar vein, US Senators have only been directly elected to Congress since 1913. Before that state legislatures appointed them, as stipulated by the Constitution (Article I, Section 3). Cheers!

"So Amy, what do you think about this potentially explosive statement about the Clinton family by Michelle Obama?"

"Well, let me just do your job for you and quote Mrs. Obama's next spoken sentence, which clearly shows she was talking about her own family. Needless to say, this is an idiotic con...

In Soviet Russia, you scratch cat?

"Net Neutrality" is a leftist plan to inhibit the free speech of conservatives online? Seriously? I suppose I could use these remaining 361 characters to explain why that's the most idiotic thing I've heard in the past month, but I realize that anyone who would say that (or take it seriously) is...

1:46:02 - "You shouldn't believe me. You should certainly not believe a word I said. That's why I was giving sources, look them up."

And that is why Noam Chomsky is a boss.

How strange. Less than a decade after this Hitchens and Chomsky (two individuals whose opinions I hold in high regard) would be fierce antagonists on U.S. foreign policy.

6:22 - "All right, let's talk first about whether there are any good arguments to think that atheism is true." WTF?! Did Hitchens not just spend considerable time explaining that atheism is not an ideology one believes in? That it is a stance of unbelief, philosophically equivalent to unbelief in...

Thank you, StumbleUpon.

2:51 - I just realized he had to ad lib this entire part backwards.

0:44 - I've read "A Brief History of Time." Does that make me a nerd?

2:03

WTF is this, the 1940s?

I'm a huge fan of Rage.

And I laughed my ass off at this video.

What little respect I had for Steve Harvey is gone. Way to perpetuate that ridiculous stigma, Steve.

"Don't smoke marijuana, kids, or you'll go straight to hell!"

It gets more awesome every time I watch it! How!?

fatouche99 hit the nail on the head. While I think intelligence (along with education) certainly helps, the greater impact on religiosity comes from one's ability to separate their thoughts from those of the proverbial tribe. Mental independence is much more important than mental capacity.

"All right, Jon Stuart, buy his book, here he is..."

That was probably the most unenthusiastic plug I've ever heard.

A few months ago I flew for the first time in over a decade - the last time I was nine or ten, didn't think much of it at the time - and as the plane parted with the earth and I watched the ground shrink away I thought: "How the fuck is this even possible? We're in a giant metal tube that weighs ...

How strange...

No I cannot! The objective investigation of history by Lee Strobel, converted Christian and journalist extraordinaire, has convinced me that God exists and Jesus is his son. No other explanation can account for the writings in the New Testament, even though they were written decades after the dea...

@PHOG1 Of course you're correct, which is why scientists always account for a "margin of error" in their observations. What I really should have said is that geologists have definitively determined the age of the Earth to within less than 1%. As for Goldie450: according the US Geological Survey, ...

It's refreshing to see Republicans who aren't hypocrites, for whom "small government" is more than just a buzz phrase. Far too many Republicans today seem to believe that negative government intervention only applies to the corporations that fund their campaigns. Their business practices are off ...

@0bjective2All So while it was unfair of PolitiFact to focus on her opening claim about the surplus (which is what they rated False), PolitiFact did address the disingenuous way in which she blamed Walker for the budget shortfall this year. I like Maddow, but in this case it seems PolitiFact prov...

I love how everyone on here arguing against socialized medicine is using the standard capitalist talking points, as if they're reading out of an economics textbook. Like any economics model, capitalism works fantastically in theory. But if you take a moment to study the real world, to move beyond...

If I remember correctly, the estate tax affects something like .02% of the population. Never ceases to amaze me how Republicans with simplistic talking points recycled over and over again can persuade half the nation to side with that .02%, not just on estate taxes but on virtually every other ec...

@beautybynajah Are you a necromancer? 'Cause you just made Carl Sagan roll in his grave.

@0xxWCCxx0 "So what you're saying is he was written down in many different books." Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Those different books are called the Gospels, and they accompany the writings of Paul in the New Testament. And if you think they all offer a perfectly symmetrical portrayal of ...

"I took a little nap where the roots all twist

squished a rotten peach in my fist

and dreamed about you

WOMAN!!!!"

At least Gore (probably) wouldn't have started two neo-colonial resource wars based on lies.

With the number of people that actually pay attention to Palin, with the number of people that think Republicans care about anyone besides the top 1%, with the number that base their political opinions on distorted facts and talking points... I fear for the future of this country. I hope Palin ge...

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."

-Isaac Asimov

The true irony of the abortion "debate" is that many pro-lifers also push policies which INCREASE the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions, such as abstinence-only sex education programs. These have been proven not to work as well as education about safe sex and condom usage. Also - 20% o...

Wow...Glenn Beck is fucking insane. The only thing crazier than watching him rant and rave like he normally does is watching him interact with a sane person who disrupts his sphere of ridiculous analogies, convoluted facts, and paranoia.