I thinkl world is in danger in 2012. Big catastropic incidents will happen from everywhere. whole earth will be finished and rebirth will be happen.

Why do you keep wasting your time then? Why did you spend time to complain about it in the first place?

You know what I miss? I miss 1960. Not the part about my face turning overnight into the world’s most productive zit farm. What I miss is the way the grown-ups acted about the Kennedy-Nixon race. Like the McCain-Obama race, that was a big historic deal that aroused strong feelings in the voters. This included my parents and their friends, who were fairly evenly divided, and very passionate. They’d have these major honking arguments at their cocktail parties. But unlike today, when people wear out their upper lips sneering at those who disagree with them, the 1960s grown-ups of my memory, whoever they voted for, continued to respect each other and remain good friends.

What was their secret? Gin. On any given Saturday night they consumed enough martinis to fuel an assault helicopter. But also they were capable of understanding a concept that we seem to have lost, which is that people who disagree with you politically are not necessarily evil or stupid. My parents and their friends took it for granted that most people were fundamentally decent and wanted the best for the country. So they argued by sincerely (if loudly) trying to persuade each other. They did not argue by calling each other names, which is pointless and childish, and which constitutes I would estimate 97 percent of what passes for political debate today.

Emphasis added.

I feel political discussions on blogs are a waste of time.

Apparently discussions with you are also a waste of time because you’re more interested in trying to put childish words in my mouth than considering what I actually say.

It all comes back to the old Waaaah you hurt my feelings, Waaaahh.

With political blogging, either people agree with you or they don’t. It’s not like blogs are going to influence people. They just “validate” feelings people already have, or they annoy people who disagree.

As for politics being intertwined with science, yes it is. But picking on a candidate who just lost an election will do nothing to further science.

McCain/Palin got 46% of the vote. Why alienate those people?

By commenting on this thread you just wasted your time and your bandwidth as well, I guess that gotta make you really angry. BTW there’s plenty of bandwidth to go around Phil is quite prolific about putting up astronomy related articles. Also if you think that science is not entwined with politics then exit stage right as Whitey51 did.

Guess you can’t distinguish between the science and politics threads. It even has the topics listed if you can’t work this out on the main page.

Ohhhh your not going to buy his book, maybe this has more to do with the fact that you can’t read than you being pissed off with the BA’s opinion on certain topics.

Ever heard the phrase about taking one’s bat and all and going home?

All I can say is See Ya.

One of the few things more annoying than a sore loser is a sore winner.

Mmmm. Turkey!

I suppose “one-sided” might fit, barely, since I base my opinion firmly on the side of reality and not ideology.

Yeah, but all ideologues think that. It’s what, by definition, makes them ideologues.

I tease.

Yes, this is all very sexist of me, because I’d never say anything against a man like McCain, or Huckabee, or Inhofe, or Bush.

That tactic of the GOP was silly, but I fully expect any major criticism of Obama to be labeled “racist” by the Other Side.

As for me? I continue to plan my early retirement, and laugh as the tribes fight one another, all thinking they have a monopoly on The Truth.

Keep squabbling and dragging that economy down, folks. It’s not hurting me, and it’s just making things cheaper.

To paraphrase: “I’m anti-neocon, I’m anti-conservative–but I’m not partisan, or biased, or partial . . .”

Is it hard to admit that you might have a political bias? Seems so.

But–hey, it’s your blog, and you can believe anything you want! Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast…

Keep trying!

“Potty mouth”? Really?

My plans to buy your book just got canceled too.

One accepted adjectival definition of partisan includes the words “prejudiced, one-sided, biased, partial.”

Sometimes the shoe fits; you should wear it.

Methinks the astronomer protests too much.

Criminy.

Also, the cartoon is a joke. It is not a call to violence, it is not asking for anyone’s death, it is a joke. Get over yourselves.

WTF?

Luke said: If Palin were a man like Huckabee (whom share similar views) we would not here a peer from the media. The fact is the media wanted Obama to win from the start and attacked everyone who stood in his way. As it is easy to make fun of and criticize a woman they did. Hiliary got the same treatment during the primaries and now its Sarah Palin.

Actually, Huckabee was pilloried for his views on creationism and answering a student as much when she questioned him about evolution. Also he wanted to add a marriage amendment to the Constitution. It’s just that he was phased out after the primary. Sorry, Luke, but Palin was a serial liar, she was brought out on the stage rather quickly, and no one forced her to make dumb comments. The bizarre thing about her is that she doesn’t seem to know what she doesn’t know and then makes all sorts of excuses for why she didn’t answer a question in a certain way. She’s got ambition, but little substance.

McCain and Obama were criticized for their dumb comments too, it’s just she made more clueless ones. Hillary’s issue was her behavior, not her brains. Likewise, Bush was made fun of for his endless malapropisms and odd (sometimes scary) behavior. Dan Quayle was made fun of repeatedly, so this “easy to make fun of a woman” is a weak argument.

Radwaste, Cheney is the “criminal mastermind”, Bush is just a business crony who does what his pals want. Your post is a bit unfocused and lacking of specifics as to what posters’ comments you are referring to.

Political cartoons/humor is as old as the Republic. So much can be said and understood in one boxed drawing.

Its a garantueed way of ensuring a Democrat victory with such a ridiculous opponent. You betcha!

Of course if she does win, its like Bush Jr. all over again, just with a uterus.