All anyone should be concerned about when it comes to sadness is that some things make baby Jesus cry, and when the baby Jesus cries the universe's heart weeps as well.
Of course only a minority has successfully escaped N. Korea; travelling to S. Korea from the North isn't exactly like driving across the Canadian border. That's not the point though; my post was in response to:
Not to derail the thread but.....
If you're arguing that cultures often practice...
Maybe I'm missing some subtle nuance in your post... :shrug:
I find it difficult to believe this is accepted without criticism in N. Korea when to date 17,000 refugees have escaped to S. Korea and in the past few years the number of dissidents has averaged 3,000 a year. A large human rights...
I agree that the billboard in the OP is more puerile than persuasive but it's pretty harmless and inoffensive. I do look forward to the day when (or if) local real estate mogul Sonny Astani gets his wish to put up animated LED billboards in L.A.- can you imagine how much fun it would be to see a...
I have no problem in keeping tabs on dangerous criminals like Dr. Banner. Should we turn a blind eye to all the property destruction he's responsible for? Do you want him getting mad while on the red eye to New York? Should we just let super criminals like the Leader run free?
Since creationists believe dinosaurs lived with man I wonder if they have a problem with same sex dinosaurs living with man? If so, would it be more acceptable if it were called civil unions instead? :shrug:
I agree for the most part, particularly with the "ineffective" thing. Maybe I'm just a jaded Los Angeles commuter but I haven't paid attention to a billboard in a long time. They seem like such a quaint way to advertise, kind of like putting your crappy band on MySpace. Does anyone pay attention...
Indiana Jones, Roy Chapman Andrews, the entire Leaky clan, Don Johansen and Ernst Mayr were my weaknesses. There were more anthro' types on my list so that's why I only minored in biology. ;)
I have a really embarassing story about meeting Don Johanson but I'll never tell it to strangers...
I think if one were to look at the vast majority of media coverage of science in general it's equally vapid and misleading, though the Discovery Channels and their ilk tend to air really bad pseudo-science and feature pseudo-archaeology more often than not. But even legitimate scientific...