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Thanks mcdoodle. My experience is that WordPress updates would destroy my site, which cost me time to get fixed again. Maybe I did use wordpress.com t...

WordPress is pretty terrible and I want to build something special so just displaying a CV isn't what I'm looking for. I'd go for squarespace if I did...

I didn't want to imply you were but the GOP certainly is. ;)

I thought Dykes were into women...

Still don't care. USA is doomed regardless of the monkey pushing the buttons. Tiff, you're still welcome in the Netherlands. Hanover, we have a conser...

Who's Mrs. William Clinton? And what was the treasonous act?

Meaningful relationships seem to be the norm for social creatures like us. Whether it's with family or friends or a partner we tend to build them up w...

I see either a goat or a goat.

His justification "I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record". I wonder what Comey was promised ...

Weird how I more or less agreed with the thrust of your post and then start foaming around the mouth because you could have simply stopped at "spiritu...

It's also interesting that goodwill and IP are activated on the balance sheet of large corporations. What happens with Apple's already dismally small ...

And then we get to the tricky part: how to value intellectual property. Quite possibly the reason it's on sale for 50 kUSD instead of the 20 kUSD it w...

Don't care. :P

That wasn't the claim though: After all, he gained the political spotlight years ago when he tried to undermine the authority and legitimacy of Barack...

And arguably for a good while during this election cycle, which cycle tends to start about 3 years before elections in the USA.

Que? I didn't delete any posts. Still waiting on your link to open btw. The proxy-server ain't responding... EDIT: It finally opened. I fail to see th...

Amazingly yes. Even as a non-US citizen I've been able to read the news, which I mostly do just for laughs.

Then I can conclude speciesism (or any type of discrimination for that matter) is perfectly fine. If done for the right reasons. So much for the OP. W...

So we are different from animals then?

I think of "equality" like that? I wasn't talking about equality though, I was talking about the "rights of equality", e.g. the right to be treated th...

Really? Equal rights are ridiculous? Simply stating it isn't about that doesn't quite convince me either. BTW, I eat meat once a week and consider mys...

What makes it that we should hold ourselves to a higher standard than say a domestic cat? If we're just animals like them, we shouldn't. But if we do ...

I'm sure Sapienta can point this out as well but go back to what he wrote and try to find the verb "initiate" or any synonym of it in there.

I'll paraphrase into street lingo: Trump is a whiny bitch.

The natural reaction... https://vine.co/v/5HFUPMZebO3

That you keep yelling "strawman" doesn't make it so. And there's so much wrong with just that one paragraph it's rather sad you don't even have an ink...

That's probably the funniest thing I've read in a long time. :-!

Abusers vs. abusers. Nobody is not guilty. Your words, not mine. Stop lying and twisting and turning and blaming me for your own inability to come up ...

Man, even your logic doesn't work. Even if it were true (and it isn't) that women purposefully dress to subjugate the desires of men, they still haven...

Because it's negated by the sentence following it (again) and claiming they acted "shamefully" before, or questioning their credibility, or claiming t...

Babysteps. I'm obviously not going to entertain all your delusions if you even get basic facts wrong and I cannot be bothered to correct every mistake...

No, it isn't a loaded question and in light of the various similar stories and the type of horror almost every woman has to go through and then having...

Uhmmm... How exactly is, for instance, sitting in an air plane and having the bad luck of having Trump next to you, shameful behaviour? Also, this typ...

We're still considered progressive abroad? Why thank you! The Dutch field of grass looks different when you're standing in it.

I'd think female suffrage and gender equality and all that are progressive ideas. No idea how Trump is going to take that to the extreme since he's cl...

But no Philip Roth... ok...? :-x

I've noticed you're in denial. That's fine. I mistakingly expected you to have a point with that clip and wasted time watching it. Please don't make m...

Monica Lewinsky is the wrong example, that was a consensual relationship. Trump's bragging has been confirmed by a few women in the meantime. Surprisi...

don't demand the impossible in a bipartisan world. ;)

First of all, as a Dutch person, I will have to say the obsession with the infallibility of the US constitution strikes me as incongruous with modern ...

I'd say I'd miss you except those last few posts were pretty horrible because they were totally devoid of any reflection.

That guy was a total dick. Even his family hated him and banned him for his views. He didn't gain power until he got the support of a famous brigand: ...

No, definitely phobia. First, there are no monolithic cultures. Second, even if I lazily throw together Muslims like this, fact of the matter is that ...

The Roman conquest of Europe will tell you: between 50 to 100 years.

I was trying to think of an apt analogy for homosexuality and the burqini ban but there isn't really one. Closest I got was forcing gay men who don't ...

First of all, this has no bearing on what I said as I wasn't discussing income redistribution but taxation in order to create opportunies for choice b...

Because libertarianism dismisses the meta-ethical discussion on what freedom means and only deals with negative liberty: e.g. the absence of interfere...

For country census purposes first, I think.

A nice performative example of the underlying problem...? We're all so lonely if we're this diverse about the important things.

It wasn't harsh. I'm just not used to Hanover getting personal; it's usually the other way around, which is why I noticed. ;)