darthbone

Yes, by the logic of "Financial Success = Quality", Justin Bieber is the greatest Musician of all time. He outsold the SHIT out of Mozart.

I think Ira Glass just asked you to pledge your first born to public radio.

I don't think he was suggesting making firearms way harder to get, but to make mental health care broadly available easily to whoever might need it.

Yeah keep in mind when someone has an appliance that they find a really good reliable repair tech for, they will use that service a LOT MORE OFTEN. We have a strong "Use it until it develops a problem and then replace it" mentality, but for a lotof things, when people find they can easily get quality repairs for a good price, they'll keep doing it.

I think there's a difference between just playing a character that's not you, and playing a character that's an absurd caricature as though it's an analog for reality. It was strongly implied that the character was meant as an analog for the entire irreligious, academic, scientific community, and the characters actions pretty proficiently demonstrate the religious right's misunderstanding of what atheism is.

I have absolutely nothing to gain by destroying or eroding anyone's faith. My refusal to recognize their God isn't the same as me needing to tear that down. The fact they view it that way is a much greater indictment of them, both in terms of self-doubt and in terms of self-centeredness.

It was like blackface, but instead of white people pretending to be caricatures of black people, it was zealots portraying nonbelievers. So thanks for being part of a grand insult against a group of people who don't really want anything other than to not have dogma forced onto them in every facet of their lives.

What's worse than all of it is that countless parents probably pushed their kids to see that movie, and happily allowed them to absorb that misinformed example of a type of person that rarely exists, let alone would remain employed in a university long enough to exert that kind of vindictiveness onto students. Ironically, the only place you'd realistically find that kind of inhuman dogma forced onto students is in religious private schools.

So thank you for being part of something that offended me to my core, and not for any good reasons. Only petty ones.

And yes, I watched the entire debacle, start to finish.