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Comment on What happened to Toronto? by Félix Desrochers-Guérin

Félix Desrochers-Guérin — Sun, 26 May 2013 02:44:56 +0000

Like “The Osbournes”, except even trashier.

Comment on The rise of masturbation by Mano Singham

Mano Singham — Sun, 26 May 2013 02:36:23 +0000

I am not sure what the alternative would be to self-reporting surveys, so this is as good as we are likely to get.

Comment on What happened to Toronto? by Mano Singham

Mano Singham — Sun, 26 May 2013 02:09:15 +0000

The family looks like a reality show in the making.

Comment on The rise of masturbation by AsqJames

AsqJames — Sun, 26 May 2013 00:59:23 +0000

I’m single at the moment and I masturbate, but it’s never as good as it was masturbating with, or in front of, a partner – as long as she was into it too (there’s no greater turn-off than your partner being turned off). But if you’re partner is open to it, I highly recommend including masturbation in your sex life. Especially if you want to find out what really gets your partner off. He/she knows what they like better than anyone, and who doesn’t want to find out exactly what buttons to push/rub/stroke?

Comment on What happened to Toronto? by Félix Desrochers-Guérin

Félix Desrochers-Guérin — Sun, 26 May 2013 00:26:24 +0000

And it keeps getting better.

Comment on A tax code designed by and for the rich and powerful by lpetrich

lpetrich — Sat, 25 May 2013 22:28:58 +0000

This reminds me of some arguments I once had with someone who claimed that tax breaks are not subsidies. I argued that they had the same financial effect. I also remember someone arguing that tax breaks mean less government, even though tax breaks can be interpreted as governments picking winners and losers with what to award a tax break for, and what not to.

I remember asking if any tax-break lovers would like it if President Obama decreed a big tax break for anyone who voted for him. One of their number claimed that it was really a tax penalty, but did not explain further.

A complicated and exploitable tax code will reward people for the wrong sort of skill: skill in exploiting tax-code weaknesses. It thus goes against free-market ideals, no matter how much some pro-capitalist ideologues may deny it.

Comment on Is monotheism worse than polytheism? by Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:50:17 +0000

brucegee1962 @ # 10: … it wasn’t till Islam began taking off in the seventh century that you began having monotheists going around again and killing their enemies in the name of the one true God.

I kinda suspect that Ikhnaton felt it necessary to knock in a few heads for (mono-)theological purposes.

And you might want to read up on the Zoroastrians sometime.

Then there was this other sect, the Anointed-One-ians, or something silly like that, whose (known) record of bloodshed-for-blessings began with the poisoning of Arius at the First Council of Nicaea …

Comment on A tax code designed by and for the rich and powerful by slc1

slc1 — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:50:17 +0000

To paraphrase a quotation from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, we have a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.

Comment on Pope Francis and atheists by MNb

MNb — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:07:26 +0000

“he will have to decide”
That’s still his problem, not mine.

Comment on A tax code designed by and for the rich and powerful by Ulysses

Ulysses — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:02:18 +0000

The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.