Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Plei, please believe I don't mean to minimize your feelings. I'm sorry I upset you.
I'm not so much upset as just passionate about this particular issue, though I suspect we define sensible conservative differently. I was raised, after all, by Canadian atheists.
I was raised, after all, by Canadian atheists.
That's awesome.
My Christian grade school taught me homosexuality was evil. It took my best friend coming out to me in college to change that.
Unrelatedly, I think I'm going to have a very hard time when candidates for higher office (Senate, President, Governor) start being younger than me. Both in a "OMG why are they a Senator and I'm not?" and in a "Dude. I AM BARELY AN ADULT, how do you think you can RUN THIS COUNTRY?!" way.
never attributing to malice what can be adequately explained by ignorance.
Yeah, I always thought that dictum was at the least overstated and probably dead wrong. If someone kicks me in the balls I'm gonna attribute that to malice.
I believe in malicious ignorance.
If someone kicks me in the balls I'm gonna attribute that to malice.
The circumstances in which that could be adequately explained by ignorance are going to be rare, Typo. Which is the point.
I believe in malicious ignorance.
I believe in ignorant maliciosity.
Unrelatedly, I think I'm going to have a very hard time when candidates for higher office (Senate, President, Governor) start being younger than me. Both in a "OMG why are they a Senator and I'm not?" and in a "Dude. I AM BARELY AN ADULT, how do you think you can RUN THIS COUNTRY?!" way.
If it helps, my friend (and fellow Hoya) the Congressman thinks he is the least successful of his college roommates.
I think a single mom (or dad) working two jobs and going home to three kids might disagree with you.
They might disagree with me. They might be wrong, too. Do they work with any non-white or non-Christian or non-heterotypical people on those jobs? Do they see any when they go shopping or take their kids to daycare? Being busy and tired is not a reason to not notice or care that the other people in your world are in fact people.
Both in a "OMG why are they a Senator and I'm not?" and in a "Dude. I AM BARELY AN ADULT, how do you think you can RUN THIS COUNTRY?!" way.
Paul Goddamn Ryan graduated from my university ONE YEAR ahead of me. Granted, that isn't *younger,* but it's close enough to be weird as hell.
And one of our more reprehensible candidates for Senate is 35 years old (and looks like he's 17). Even if he wasn't the shiftiest, sketchiest person to ever hold the job of state treasurer (though he IS), he's too young, man! That's weird!