Should have had Ahmed Matar in the corner saying “Gotcha!”

But I gotta say I just don’t care for Tom the Dancing Bug at all. If it went away from BoingBoing I wouldn’t miss it.

I was particularly impressed with the very sensible suggestion that a president have to spend some time looking at pictures of the “collateral damage” that occurs in wartime while making the decision. Looking at a blob of tissue a few millimeters across should not cause the level of soul-searching as putting actual children in danger of being killed.

I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if Sasha and Malia are quite aware that children as well as other people die during wars, and remind Barack about it constantly.

As for Barbara and Jenna, I don’t know. Maybe they were too busy partying to worry enough about it, so George didn’t get any good advice.

“…the diametrically-opposed orbit of which”. Earth is a thing, not a person.

How dare you engage in targeted, subliminal, hypno mind control forcing people like poor Chris to repeatedly click on things they just don’t care for at all.

Have you no decency?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/

And by the way, whenever I’m talking with a “pro-life” person, I like to ask them their opinion of contraception. If they are anti-abortion and anti-contraception, I can at least meet them there, as their “stop abortions in any way possible” allows for preventing conception in the first place. But if they are opposed to any contraception, they’re not really anti-abortion, they’re just anti-sex, and I’ll point that out to them. It never goes well.

Yes. From a purely conservative/libertarian perspective you can do whatever the hell you want to your own kids.

“Forget bananas. Look at this webcomic. Look at it.”

I tell ‘em that I admire any person willing to go out and take action on their beliefs, and interact with the public, and that I have a couple of questions to put to all of them.

My first question is to ask how many of them have adopted children – raise your hands folks! – and then I ask the folks who adopted due to infertility to drop their hands.

Then I speechify at them, because they are hypocrites who aren’t really prepared to change anything. If they wanted to change things, they’d be at home making sandwiches for their huge adopted families, not posing with badly spelled signs. I explain to them how adoption agencies work in our state, and the financial assistance available to adoptive parents, and what they can expect when they sign up for adoption, and what Jesus had to say about people who parade their faith in the marketplace but do not act on it at home.

Eventually somebody runs away. Usually me, pursued by furies, but sometimes them, pursued by the demons of shame.

Hurry, do it now, and end the misery you suffer as you click on every link you see, coerced to do so by their presence on your screen.

You poor bastard!

Riiiight!

Why not?

anon #22: “My first question is to ask how many of them have adopted children”

It’s actually very hard to adopt kids these days. Adopters outnumber adoptees.