Recent content by ZZ-Tops89

Philosophy can make for some good kindling. And don't get me wrong, I'm not an idiot; I've read a lot of philosophy. The problem with most philosophy is that it usually sets out ideological extremes namely because in the lack of pragmatic constraints that philosophical writing and thinking...

Why is it that only insanely annoying nut-jobs argue against exorbitant government spending? I am sincerely hoping for Milton Friedman to get up out of his grave, dust off the dirt, and write a book.

I don't care about the validity of the global warming argument (though to be fair I'm a tiny bit skeptical about the magnitude of the problem and the role of human cause, though I'll grant the problem exists), I think it's unpersuasive. 1st generation environmentalism was really about...

That doesn't phase me...OH MY GOD NIHILISM! I'M SCARED OF IT! TAKE IT AWAY!!! the counter-argument to your claim is existentialism. The problem with existentialism is that it fails to answer that all-important question; "why are those morals rationally provable?".

Well THERE'S 'yer problem! Kozol is basically crazy in his approach to the education system. I've read some of his stuff and from what I gather he despises a lot of top high schools for being "too good" and/or having too much money. In short, he sees EDUCATION as a resource that needs to be...

Dude, what else is it? They are legally allowed to reject people from working for them based soley on if they are a single-mother or gay. That's the textbook diffinition of discrimination. Yeah....no, you're wrong here. That's just extreme forms of discrimination. Unless you think that a...

This is split into two parts, as the subject suggests. The first half looks at the history of the city builder/tycoon genre, and then goes into why the re-emergence of that genre depends on the success of Cities XL, which will be released early next month (21 days). The city builder/tycoon...

Self-defense law, b####es! Past precedents have established a right to self-defense. If there is a case, I doubt the kid will get convicted on 1st Degree murder anyways, for three reasons: 1. Jury sympathy/awe. Any case against the kid seems difficult to make, and considering he killed a...

Ender's Game. Orson Scott Card will eventually approve of someone's artistic direction. What CAN NOT happen is for some dick to make a movie right after he dies like they did with Hitchhiker's Guide.

First, Bush didn't rant. He didn't sound particularly good in his speeches, but he didn't spout off for several minutes angrily. Second, there were protests about kids having to listen to Bush, it's just they never reached the national media. This was NOT (at least in my appraisal of it)...

Trolls are the anti-thesis of lightning; once they strike once, they tend to strike the same place as often as possible since they already have a username. Also, while the internets is huge, there are so many trolls of so many varieties out there that prevention is really a losing battle.

Everything ever said by Sgt. Moody in COD 1 and 2. Honestly, that character was badass incarnate. Why isn't he in the new cod games? Also, Captain Price comes in a close second place. There's actually a curse regarding that character; any COD game without Captain Price will fail to meet...

I think he's would fit "too well". Oftentimes the best actors are the ones who you think would be terrible, while the actors you think would fit in a role best often do terribly. Just look at the casting decision for the Joker in Dark Knight; Heath Ledger was an amazing actor, but NO ONE...

No, I just had to crowbar in that video somehow no matter how stupid, tangential, or insane. I apologize for my temporary loss of insanity, I will now resume my normal form of insanity, which is far sensical but much less plausible. Honestly it sounds like a good relationship and I wish the...

No, it'll start a flame war about the issue. So the rant is entirely counterproductive.