Apart from the fact that we disagree about C.S. Lewis, what grounds do you have for presuming your opponent is a progressive? A fertile but empty imagination?

19) " No man who says I’m as good as you believes it. He would not say it if he did. The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior." Jim Thorpe said it. Jackie Robinson said it. Billie Jean King said it. Ludwig van Beethoven said it. Albert Einstein said it. Bobby Fischer said it. Betty White is still saying it. To our benefit, they believed it. Myths about race, sex, age, and disability were demolished by individual accomplishments far outside the political field. C.S. Lewis had a poor comprehension of what other people believed.

If that is the case, they are damned if they do, and damned if they don't, so they might as well stick with the current plan. It costs less.

Go find a survivor of the Mao years and ask what being hungry in China was like. They take their population control very seriously, having seen more of their own people starve to death than died in the entirety of World War 2. What is the lesser of two evils, coerced family planning or a famine that makes Ethopia look like a Weight Watchers picnic?

Question: What is a cheap, sure fire way to motivate a kid to try and read a book he''s never heard of and cares nothing about? Answer: Tell him he is forbidden to do it! Tell the little punk that you will flush his Ipod and prune his cojones if you ever so much as suspect that he has been thinkiing of looking at that book! There is no more certain way to guarantee that the kid in question will memorize the tome in question from start to finish. It is the forbidden fruit effect put into productivity! Example: The world owes a debt of gratitude to all the librarians who suggested that the novel, "Lord of the Flies" was inappropriate for younger kids. Tweens were drawn to that classic like flies to...

Fine. Get up in front of the public, and denounce the Koran. Not some little forum like town hall, but in a place where legitimate Muslims can see you. Go ahead and show us all what big proverbial cojones you have.

OK Ann, you defend the right of the somebody else to insult Islam. You have a much bigger audience. Why don't you criticize Islam? How about it Ann, let us read all the things you dislike about the Koran. Tell us what you think is untrue about the word of Mohammed. Tell the world what you think is wrong about the words of Mohammed. Then let us know if you sleep any easier, or have to hire an extra body guard.

Way back when,in 1980 or so, as the hysteria for the impending ice age was reaching a climax, there was this small, under-represented theory called the greenhouse effect, that predicted the earth was going to bake in its own emissions. Nobody believed it but a few hippies at the time. However, as it became obvious that we weren't going to freeze to death, people began to began to follow, then argue, then preach, and then rant about global warming. As the pendulum of temperature averages swings the other way, one has to wonder if the behavior of the masses will do that too, again...

Raise your kid in a room with a web connection and an ample supply of video games to keep him/her and their friends out of your hair. You feed them an ample supply of Eggos, Big Macs, & Microwave Dinners, with an occasional bag of chips thrown in to break the monotony. Top it all off with a large supply of soft drink, & minimal interaction is needed with the kid, at all. Sound familiar?
Speaking of state solutions, whatever happened to P.E.? Does anybody else remember when "they" used to be able to force students to get dressed and at least attempt to run a lap or two around the track? Students were actually encouraged to engage in physical competition against each other, maybe attempt a pullup, & all that... Let me...

Probably one of the few areas where creationists and evolutionists can agree is that humanity does not control the climate. Look at the story of Noah. Look for the missing Ice Bridge from Siberia. That all happened long before the industrial revolution was even contemplated!

Yet, in spite of that rare convergence of scientific and religious opinion, the hottest left wing myth of the day is that humanity controls the weather! If the sky aint falling, something equally absurd and offensive is raining out of it!!!