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POPSPrenatal tests. from the article: "If a prenatal test for autism becomes available, should medical science be used to 'cure' the condition?"
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POPSInexperienced Republican vs. Inexperienced Democrat So I've been having a lot of heated discussions on exactly how important it is for a candidate to be experienced. My view is: not at all. Knowledge matters. Belief matters. Judgment matters. But experience in Washington is a minus for me. Hopefully, now, this will put the experience debate to bed. Shame on Barbra Boxer for making the same argument against Palin that she dismisses against Obama! Both tickets are a good mix of experience and freshness. If Democrats want to take on Palin, they should have enough wherewithal to criticize her political positions, just like Republicans should stop whining about manufactured personal issues with Obama and get to the meat of why they don't like him: the issues.
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POPSIsrael’s Refusal to Allow UN Human Rights Investigators to Enter Gaza In listening to the CNN interview the pack of lies by the war mongering heartless bullies were almost believable until asked about oversight, then it all fell apart. I guess when you become as arrogant and your accomplice in crime (Bush) you don't bother trying to lie well. Insulting to anyone with a functioning mind.
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POPSThe Economist: U.S. In Depression, Not Recession Where does that leave us today? America’s GDP may have fallen by an annualised 6% in the fourth quarter of 2008, but most economists dismiss the likelihood of a 1930s-style depression or a repeat of Japan in the 1990s, because policymakers are unlikely to repeat the mistakes of the past. In the Great Depression, the Fed let hundreds of banks fail and the money supply shrink by one-third, while the government tried to balance its budget by cutting spending and raising taxes. America’s monetary and fiscal easing this time has been more aggressive than Japan’s in the 1990s. However, these reassurances come from many of the same economists who said that a nationwide fall in American house prices was impossible and that financial innovation had made the financial system more resilient.
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POPSBoston Legal's Depiction of the Supreme Court... Was right on target. When I first saw this clip, I couldn't believe how wonderful it would be if this was not fiction. Well, it seems the Supreme Court may not be as politically polarized as I thought but just one more Republican justice and it will be. When that happens a case like this will only be a fairytale. I can't embed it any longer but you can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqlGoxfAkuU See John Stewart's hilarious view of Scalia and the Supreme Court. Click Here: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/30/daily-show%20-the-loveable-and-charming-antonin-scalia/
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POPSHow Wall Street's Loss May be Labor's Gain From economic media critic Dean Baker, who's blog I really need to check more often. Baker goes on to explain how a loss of demand from Wall St. types could be made up. "Eventually weakness in the labor market will put more downward pressure on real wages," he writes. "However, if the loss of demand from stockholders is effectively replaced by demand from the government or foreign sector, then the vast majority of the country will be made better off by this plunge in stock prices." Yet another argument in favor of a second New Deal.
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POPSHealth Care ≠ Money IMO, this makes a valid argument for Universal Healthcare. It's time we stop using fiscal reasoning to account for life and death decisions.
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POPSCousin Marriage OK by Science "Ultimately it's a political question about what you allow individuals to do, and what that says about the structure of society," said Spencer. With seven billion people on the face of the planet, one should think it would be doable to find a partner who is not a relative. Science or not, I still think inter-breeding among families is just plain yucky.
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POPSSola scriptura minus the scriptura And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
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POPSWhy We Need More Torture in Videogames The argument wants long term effects of torture to be clearly laid out (in the rules, I suppose). Also says gamers want real life and consequences in their games. (I suppose if you can't face responsibility in real life, you can learn about it in the virtual world.) The amount of morals allowed would be regulated by sales.
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POPSBush Condemns Free National Wi-Fi continues: The legislation, which is before Congress now, would require whoever buys the chunk of wireless spectrum being auctioned next year to set aside a quarter for no-fee service to rural areas that don't have broadband access. read more
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POPS20 Old Age Benefits It's true getting old has its benefits 18. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the National Weather Service. 19. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either. 20. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size
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POPSHow to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic (FAQ) More common questions and myths answered at the source, thoroughly cross-referenced and conveniently categorized and sub-categorized by type of argument: Stages of Denial Scientific Topics Types of Argument Levels of Sophistication A nice reference that's updated with fresh comments. Many "skeptics" often are unaware (by choice or by circumstance) that their common questions have already been addressed by scientists long ago.
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POPSReport: Bush, Rumsfeld Responsible for Detainee Abuse The article tells us: The Bush administration, which has not yet commented on the report, has repeatedly said detainees in U.S. custody are treated humanely, and that because they are enemy combatants, and not prisoners-of-war, they are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions. That never made any sense to me; the Bush argument was always "We can abuse detainess because Geneva doesn't apply, but we're not." Why make the argument that the Geneva Conventions don't apply if you're not planning to violate them? Why even bring it up? We now have proof of the freakin' obvious...
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