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I've heard talk in the past about biodegrable food containers - things like milk cartons, for example. The containers would begin degrading after the food expiration date. Haven't heard any more on this recently, but article cited above triggered my memory...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/06/cellphonecover.sunflower.reut/index.html Anyone know of similar products in development?

All things liberals lionize their "own" for - and explain away. Every time a celebrity goes on a drug binge, and claims to be working on kicking their habit, we are supposed to admire them for their bravery, but when a conservative has the same failure, they are to be mocked endlessly. Ditto for liberals on their 2nd or 3rd marriage (or 100th lover for that matter). As for the "moral force" question, I don't think Rush ever claimed to be that. He analyzes politics and has a "show" - the goal of which is to be entertaining and make $$. Sometimes he catches my interest, sometimes not...

And if whoever wins does a mediocre (or worse) job, then toss them on their ass in 4 years.

don't worry - the Republicans can perform vehicular manslaughter and deny responsibility just like the Dems, except at least Janklow had to serve a trivial amount of jail time. 1. that's a big "except" 2. I said they (politicians) are all the fucking same, didn't I? convenient post trimming...

Have you ever listened to him? On the contrary, he is usually very upbeat and optimistic, so I don't know where you are getting this. If you want to cite a right-wing talk show host who does actually whine a lot, try Michael Savage. As for Rush, it is ironic you mention him today in this context. I happened to catch him 20 minutes this morning on the way to work. He was laughing and reading from Maureen Dowd's column in the NY Times from 12/05/04 "Jingle Bell Schlock" (http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/maureendowd/). Now, if you want to talk about whining, THAT would be a place to start. In fact, one could extrapolate her obvious unhappiness with the holidays, and life in general, to many many liberals in our society, who seem to find no joy or happiness or GOOD in anything.

But having an intern suck your cock on "company" time on "company" property - as a part of multiple inappropriate sexual encounters is not a "judgement problem", I suppose. And driving drunk with a female passenger who dies as a result of driving into a lake - is that a "judgement problem"? And yet Ted Kennedy was how old when this happened? How many times has he been reelected since then? And he is still a leader of his party, and was a serious presidential contender in the 80's. No problemo, I suppose. These guys (rich, powerful, politicians) are all the same, let's not kid ourselves. And they aren't much different from the average American in terms of failings.

Uh-huh. And you've never smoked weed, drank, gotten behind the wheel with a questionable BAL? And are you employed?

Reminds me of the story a few years back of the white city councilman somewhere who used the word "niggardly" in reference to some funding issue (if I recall correctly) and was attacked as a racist by people too ignorant to know that the word is legitimate and has absolutely no etymological relationship to a similar-sounding racial slur.

I thought the issue was more than "joining a sorority" - it was rather one of practicing racist exclusionary policies in said sorority. That would rank as a large "scale" item IMNHO.

Blame it on the influence of all the transplants from Cali...

Retch. Thanks for the warning!

Anybody who adheres to this political correctness shit, is a SLAVE to their own fucking stupidity, and I hope THAT offends them all.

Perhaps they can fix your cranial-rectal inversion!

There is talk about only doing the hand recounts in some districts. Obviously, this would be in those areas where the Dems think they could net a gain in the count. This would only muddy the results.

I agree, and would if the results were the other way around. Imagine if the result does change after a 3rd count. That doesn't strike me as a good way to win - keep counting until it works out for your side? How much of a "mandate" is that? Dino won 2 out of 3 counts, why should the third one decide it? Doesn't it just muddy the results even more?

Nalyvaj no!

This is pretty ridculous - it seems no matter what form of non-lethal weapon is used - stun gun, taser, or pepper-spray, some ACLU type wants to ban it. I'd hate to be a police officer in this day and age.

A kak zhe provodit' vremya v Rosii, esli ne pyesh? You must have had fun za stolom as toast after toast was raised. Davajte vypem za... po-chemu ne pesh, Skotchik? Ty bol'noj? Alkash? :-)))

? maybe you could give me a ten second explanation geek talk

I don't want to get into too much thread drift here... some people start to get mad...

As someone mentioned, the state of science education is pretty piss-poor. Biology is about the most accessible of the three branches (the other being chemistry and physics), but even it seems to be difficult for people to grasp, or be interested in. I worked in Biotech for 8 years, and I long ago gave up trying to explain to people what exactly I did (data management software for R&D projects, LIMS systems, and gene expression analysis software). There is a lot of junk science and bias in the whole global warming debate. It makes it very difficult to know exactly what the whole truth is. I definitely favor more solid research in climate studies.

Again, the bone of contention seems to be macro-evolution and Darwin's theory, not micro-evolution, genetics and so forth. I think even a die hard creationist could be convinced that God made all creatures with the same building blocks (DNA, organelles, cells, etc) and there is no need necessarily to confront the big controversy head-on. It would be very easy to teach all the subject matter you mention in a way that covers all the important concepts without stirring up the debate directly. That's just my opinion - I'm not defending "creationism" here - but sometimes it is useful to find a common ground.

I took AP biology in 10th grade. That was really the only class where evolution was taught in elementary/secondary education - that I can recall, and it constituted a really small portion of the course material. I don't see a problem with deferring this subject matter until college for those areas where this is a sensitive issue, or at least allowing for an opt-out from students. It's really a small part of science curriculum in the big scheme of things. As a caveat I assume we are all talking about macro-evolution here...