Victor Ganata

kind of nuts out there today, melty hot - Steve C, Team Marina

Here too - Todd Hoff

Apparently the West Coast funneled away what little remaining heat we have here on the East Coast. ;-p - rønin

If I was in LA today I would be probably furious at the heat. - Andrew C (✔)

"…California was, is and has always been a multilingual place." - Victor Ganata

"Spanglish may seem like a product of modern culture — but its roots go back centuries." https://www.facebook.com/publicr... - Victor Ganata

"They tend to feel they can’t afford to make a single mistake." Wife and I have covered this subject a lot over the years. And whether the feeling is warranted or not, you experience it enough that you're antennae are always up. - MoTO Boychick Devil

I suppose it's all straightforward microbiology and biochemistry but I am still agog. Or perhaps aghast. - Victor Ganata

^^^lol - Victor Ganata

Nothing about the preposterousness of centaurs ;) - Victor Ganata

What's the deal with ents. They're mf'ing trees. - Rodfather

Not really. They don't store much water. - Todd Hoff

IT WAS ALWAYS HERE! TOLD YOU GUYS! - MoTO Boychick Devil

this is when i discover i am seriously out of my depth on this topic. *shuts up and reads* - Big Joe Silenced

"Authorities will investigate whether religious hate played a role in the shooting deaths of three young Muslims in an incident police said stemmed from a parking dispute at a housing complex in Chapel Hill near the University of North Carolina." - Victor Ganata

"…Hicks described himself on Facebook as an 'anti-theist' and has posted condemnations of all religions." - Victor Ganata

"'Based on the brutal nature of this crime, the past anti-religion statements of the alleged perpetrator, the religious attire of two of the victims, and the rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in American society, we urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to quickly address speculation of a possible bias motive in this case,' Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, said in a prepared statement." - Victor Ganata

It seems pretty ridiculous for a single murdering atheist to represent all atheists everywhere—just as it's ridiculous for Muslim terrorists to represent all Muslims everywhere—so it seems bizarre that Dawkins finds it necessary to respond so. Although I guess he'd have no problem condemning entire religions if the situation were reversed. - Victor Ganata

I agree with Dawkins' sentiment here: "How could any decent person NOT condemn the vile murder of three young US Muslims in Chapel Hill?" (https://mobile.twitter.com/Richard...). The alleged perpetrator was an atheist: https://www.facebook.com/craig... -- and it appears many called for Dawkins to renounce the shooting. His response seems apt -- anyone would denounce this killing, theist or atheist. - Stephen Mack

OK, that does make more sense. - Victor Ganata

"When Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims are killed by Muslims, Islam is identified as playing a direct role. When Muslims are killed by Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims, however, the religious identity of the violent perpetrators is downplayed or ignored." - Victor Ganata

"In much of the western news discourse, the implication always seems clear; western societies should be suspicious of Muslims - all Muslims. Various pundits have taken to prominent media to offer up inflated estimates of the number of Muslim terrorists, with some suggesting that 'peaceful' Muslims are, in the first place, a minority, and, more importantly, only peaceful because they have misunderstood the teachings of their inherently violent religion." - Victor Ganata

"Always ignored is empirical evidence - of which there is no shortage - showing that Muslims aren't more violent than non-Muslims and that the overwhelming majority of Muslims believe terrorism to be an abomination." - Victor Ganata

*cough* start writing again *cough* - Aloof Schipperke

^ Oh, that could mean anything. - Andrew C (✔)

it's vir-US, not vir-YOU - Pete's Got To Go

Lol - Victor Ganata

Another potentially fatal, possibly sterilizing preventable disease makes a come back. - Victor Ganata

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Not surprising that it spread over - students move freely between the two campuses and cities, and share a lot of the same watering holes. - Jennifer Dittrich

"As prescriptions for opioid painkillers have leveled off, heroin use has increased." - Victor Ganata

I remember a few research papers (using both rats and humans for tests) that show how addicts leave their addiction as their stress levels decrease. Yes, including an opioid addiction. I suppose that some percent of population is just stressed enough as not to see a better escape than a piece of chemical happiness. So the efforts should not be directed at preventing people from getting their fix, but rather on making them not need it. - 9000

Prince's side-eye was pretty funny, too. https://twitter.com/PacSun... - Victor Ganata

^^ LOL I was just "watching" it on Twitter. Now I wish I'd seen the actual thing to watch the audience for "oh no, not again" looks. - Spidra Webster

WHAT - Victor Ganata

I love him but I still haven't managed to see the first Spaceballs... - Spidra Webster

"In response to Rand Paul’s hilarious claim that parents own their children, Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig (ESB) posted at The New Republic about a slew of libertarian views about parenting that are stranger than even that." http://www.newrepublic.com/article... - Victor Ganata

"One of those views comes from Rothbard’s book Ethics of Liberty. In the book Rothbard applies the non-aggression, “no positive duty” brand of libertarianism to children and concludes, correctly, that it means that parents cannot be forced to care for their children and may even neglect them until they die…." - Victor Ganata

"First, to say someone’s helplessness creates legally-enforceable obligations in others to care for them is deeply dangerous. It might mean, for instance, that disabled people and sick people and people who can’t find work instantiate legally-enforceable obligations in others to provide for them as well. But, as we know, libertarianism is nothing if not the view that starving a disabled or unemployed person to death is not violence and legally forcing people to prevent that (through a tax for instance) is." - Victor Ganata

"Using religion to brutalize other people is not a Muslim invention, nor is it foreign to the American experience." - Victor Ganata

President Obama points out this fact: "Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ." The usual suspects immediately lose their shit. - Victor Ganata

"Battling the country’s worst measles outbreak in years, medical professionals say that many Americans’ fears about Western medicine and distrust of the government are making it harder to combat the disease." - Victor Ganata

"Despite setbacks, U.S. health authorities insist they have the outbreak under control and there have not yet been calls for international assistance or military intervention." - Victor Ganata

The headline is great even if the sculptures aren't by Michelangelo. - John (bird whisperer)

I think i was at that party. :) - Steve C, Team Marina

«It was a good excuse to show people having a wild time and a bit of nudity under the guise of an intellectual ancient subject» - 9000

—Adam Frank, commentator and astrophysicist professor via NPR https://www.facebook.com/NPR... - Victor Ganata

Well, thank god she didn't get naked. I mean, everyone knows flashing your tits in public kills brain cells every time you do it and means you should never be respected for any opinion you have afterwards. - Jennifer Dittrich

Consult a doctor if the plumbing emergency persists? - John (bird whisperer)

If your plumbing emergency should last for more than four hours, call your plumber immediately. - bentley

give it two aspirin & call a plumber in the morning? - Stephan!e•CogSc!L!brar!an