Recent content by Mapp

But everyone DOES pay to off-set the cost. That's exactly the point I was making in both cases. Your tax dollars go to paying the costs of court, the cost of road repair, and would likely go to pay the medical expenses of either or both drivers if they were not insured. That's why we make...

Then you completely missed the point of the example. It had nothing to do with choice of driving or with choice of living, it had to do with the requirement to purchase insurance to off-set a much larger cost to the public. Car insurance, like health insurance provides a method with which to...

If you want to own a car in this country, you are forced to buy car insurance. It's a non-negotiable fact of life. This is a particularly heavy burden for those of us living in D.C. or New York, where bad driving by others has drastically raised insurance rates. I can barely pay my rates...

Darn that 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it foils them every time. It wasn't enough for these people that they had to kill the Dream Act, a bill that would give a path to citizenship for people living in this country their entire lives, now they have to go after actual citizens.

Re: Sarah Palin's Blood libel speech and her thoughts in gen The very use of the term demonstrates how off the deep end the persecution complex of the neo-Birchers has become. You may recall that the "blood libel" was a term referring to the numerous pogroms, persecutions and inquisitions held...

Nothing demonstrates human stupidity more conclusively than the inability to grasp humor or irony.

I've always likened the comparison to languages or human beings. Can you tell me the exact moment Latin became French? Can you tell me the exact moment that an child becomes an adult? Both of these demonstrate the silliness of the question when you're dealing with gradual incrimental changes...

It sounds like it's basically the creation of a non-Catholic saint, complete with made up miracles.

I tried posting a comment to his video letting him know that if he wants to use a green screen, he needs to pull anything that's not a solid background off his shelf. His books create way too much static. Was immediately told that I was blocked by the user, which is funny, because I don't...

Back and already blocking comments. Fantastic. We can look forward to more wonderful videos. Tf00t and DPR were always at their best when slapping that little cretin back into his place.

Sounds like he's trying to pass the British version of the Comstock Laws. The problem is, he's about 9 decades too late to get away with it. There's simply no realistic way to hold IPs responsible for the behavior of their customers. It's not going to be possible. This is moralistic...

Most professional religious hucksters have stories like this. Christian literature, AHAHAHAH (sorry, putting those two words together just brings out the maniacal laughter) is absolute leaden with huge strings of dialogue between believers and fake non-believers. It's the theist attempt at the...

As a historian, I find Wikileaks to be absolutely fascinating. For one thing, we have never been able to read state department cables from current events. The current declassification of these cables is highly limited and stops in the 1970s. Reading these is, in many ways, akin to being able...

This is why part of my effort is always to discredit the word sin. A lot of theists think that sin and evil or immorality are synonymous. They simply are not. Sin is simply what they believe their God thinks is evil, and nine times out of ten, their ideas of evil and their God's ideas do not...

I love the "good person" apologetic. For one thing, it's the favorite of Ray Comfort, and other idiots who think like him. Hitchens answer to it was great, but I prefer a different one. Usually when you say, "no I've never stolen," they'll respond with, "really?" Then they'll throw out...