I think I could work on expressing disagreement without name-calling. Civility shouldn't equal agreement.

Yeah.

Also, asking "What the fuck is wrong with you?" isn't name-calling, is it?

Also, asking "What the fuck is wrong with you?" isn't name-calling, is it?

Depends where you put the stress in the sentence.

Also, asking "What the fuck is wrong with you?" isn't name-calling, is it?

Depends where you put the stress in the sentence.

It's posts like this that make me love us.

I've found that the way to combat all that crazy stuff is to repeat it back as a question, detailing precisely what they are saying, "So you're telling me that the president is spending as much on a trip to a country where you can live on $10 a day easy as the GDP of a mid-size country? And this is something you really believe?" and if they say yes, there is no point in arguing. If we can't agree on facts, well I don't know where to go from there.

Another lovely "factoid" I've come across lately is that Obama has increased the size of the US government by 22%. I didn't get a chance to question this assertion, but I'm betting that the "growth" would have to include the army of temporary Census workers, and probably also counts all the auto workers when the companies were bailed out. Or they just pulled the percentage increase out of their ass, maybe.

"Yes. everyone is entitled to their own informed opinion, but no one is entitled to their own facts."

This. People can be as wrong-headed as they want, IMO, as long as they can back it up.

Another lovely "factoid" I've come across lately is that Obama has increased the size of the US government by 22%.

My first question would be how they're measuring "size" of government.

My first question would be how they're measuring "size" of government.

Maybe Obama responded to one of those spams - you know, that say, "Increase the size of your government naturally!"

ION, this is just freaky. And cool.

Conjoined twins with shared brains can pass sensory information to one another

Adding to the conundrum, of course, are their linked brains, and the mysterious hints of what passes between them. The family regularly sees evidence of it. The way their heads are joined, they have markedly different fields of view. One child will look at a toy or a cup. The other can reach across and grab it, even though her own eyes couldn't possibly see its location. "They share thoughts, too," says Louise. "Nobody will be saying anything," adds Simms, "and Tati will just pipe up and say, 'Stop that!' And she'll smack her sister." While their verbal development is delayed, it continues to get better. Their sentences are two or three words at most so far, and their enunciation is at first difficult to understand. Both the family, and researchers, anxiously await the children's explanation for what they are experiencing.

Why the fuck do they think Obama would be invading India anyway?