fearwig's Comments (32)

“He doesn't--he's agreeing with Ruby. Read again.”

“Child? He just listed a very large number of publications with a considerable bias to the right (you know, despite the fact that everyone in the media are raving communists).

That's the most quantitative response imaginable to this ridiculous article.”

“These aren't questions. Please try again.”

“Win.”

“And still is. Gee golly, did you hear we already DID find WMDs? Amazing!”

“The conflict of interest within the CDC is a very serious matter, and these studies need to be taken more seriously. On the other hand, there are several problems with Mr. Carrey's argument:

1) The link he posted for "proof" of a correlation is to an advocacy site that has clearly already assumed that vaccines cause autism, equally without evidence. Despite the fact that there is a (somewhat amateurish) graph on the front page, there is nothing careful or scientific about the claims presented.

2) Since 1983, vaccination rates have not increased in direct proportion to new cases of autism spectrum disorders. How, then, can autism spectrum disorders be singularly tied to vaccination?

3) This post and MOST posts advocating a relationship between ASDs and vaccination make absolutely no recognition of the fact that ASDs are better understood now, that Aspergers, though it "existed", was almost NEVER diagnosed in the 1980s or 1990s. ASDs are only beginning to be understood, and the range of what may be considered an ASD has widened dramatically. My brother has Asperger's syndrome, but I can guarantee you that he would have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder in 1995, and with nothing at all in 1985. Consider that before jumping to outrageous conclusions that ignore both causation AND correlation.”

“Um, no. This is the cable news commentator equivalent of a blog comment-box war. Ignore it and move along.

Do you even know what the FCC does?”

“There should be a massive movement for just this aim. When I explain it to people, they are always shocked, but agree--"Why haven't I heard of this before?" It's the most obvious and reasonable solution, but it hasn't been pushed.”

“Unfit for Command is one of the least scholarly works I've ever read. I find it hard to believe even Mary Matalin could sink so low as to compliment someone who is such a perfect antithesis of the intellectual.”

“That's the bigger point. This wasn't some kind of jaw-dropping gaffe, but it's a pretty laughable analysis and just what I'd expect from the man.”

“Hillary hasn't won the popular vote, and anyone stupid enough and so easily misled to eat that tripe doesn't deserve to participate in the system.

Hillary wins the popular vote IF:

* You don't count the vote tallies out of several caucus states "just because". This includes Texas, which had huge caucus turnout.

AND

* You don't allot any of the Michigan uncommitted votes to Obama, against all reason.

How smart is that?

If Hillary can't beat Obama, who you think is so unviable, how the hell is she going to beat McCain? You're drinking the Kool-Aid, kid.”

“Uh, virtually every Hispanic person is partly European (the term refers to a mix of Native American and Spanish heritage), while the vast majority of African-Americans do too. So what the hell are you babbling about? No one is calling them heroes because of their lineage, but you seem awfully defensive about the idea. Maybe you should wrap up the comments for today, I hear the klan meeting is about to start.”

“I kind of like the idea of Chuck Norris.

1. Chuck Norris
2. Chuck Chuck Norris
3. Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

Q.E.D.”

“Hillary made that impossible all by her stupid lonesome.”

“Funny. Thurmond comes back into the party postmortem.”

“Pathetic interpretation.

If you're going to hold loyalty over conscience and sound judgment, you'd might as well be in the Bush administration. And it seems to me, that's just the attitude the Hillary camp had.”

“Laff.”

“What the hell is wrong with you?

You think it's anti-depressant medication that's causing these vets to attempt suicide? You know, not their being forced to kill other human beings? And to risk death, and even see their friends die, gruesomely, for no goddamned reason?

Get out of the fucking health food store and into the real world. Your words are an insult to the capabilities of the human mind. Go read a book that wasn't published by a money-grubbing nutritionist.

There is real science behind the study of nutrition, and the shit you're reading isn't representing it.”

“I don't think this was an explosive story, nor was it meant to be. The headline is a little misleading when compared to its content, which is only critical in the softest sense. I'm not sure it was a good move on Obama's part either: it wasn't a gaffe by any standards, but I think it could have been said more carefully and accurately.”

“Want to support those claims?

"Clinton has twenty times the number of endorsements from local leaders in the Hispanic community than Obama."

Typically clumsy. I'd expect that kind of statement from a high school opinion paper.”

“We have come to believe that our behaviors, because we classify them as psychological, are somehow not the products of the same evolutionary process that has produced the "psychology" of the bear. Thought is not unique to humanity, and there are solid evolutionary reasons for our behaviors--even, or maybe especially those that are considered aberrant.

Other than the article being cutesy (appropriate, given that it is about baby bears), and your taking it unreasonably seriously (golly, stop the anthropomo­rphisms!), I can't see anything too wrong with a close comparison of human and polar bear post-natal behavior. But hey, whatever, people have to be whiny and dramatic in HuffPost comments.”

“Compared to starvation in the glaciers? Because that's what they're facing. Suck it up.”

“"THIS! IS! GREEEENLAAAAND!" doesn't have much of a ring to it.”

“I am still more stunned that you are stunned by this.”

“I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to eat sacrificial offerings. As such, Abraham would have been unable to "recuperate" his "energentic investment" had The Lord Almighty failed to boom down "LOL!!! GOT YA!" from the heavens at the very last moment.”