Because somebody should
If the United States decided not to pay for Iraqi oil, now that we have conquered Iraq, would you still enjoy driving? It would be funny if instead of handing out another tax cut, President Bush gave every American 1000 free gallons of Iraqi gasoline. The oil companies wouldn't let him, of course, but if such audacity were politically feasible I would laugh at all the anti-war demonstrators driving cars to protest rallies to denounce the Iraqi oil giveaway.
Liberal churches tend to self-destruct over time because once they let a little logic in the door, eventually they undermine their reason for existing.
Rock stars live in true whining heaven. They can whine incessantly (check out Bono whining about Third World debt---he thinks starving Africans who borrowed wealth from other nations should not have to pay it back; in the meantime, the RIAA sues 12-year-old honor students if they download Bono's recordings) while still scoring an endless parade of high-quality chicks.
I wonder---does Bono think starving Africans have a right to steal his music? Or should they only be free to steal from banks?
I had to wonder, though, why did Star Trek Nemesis show the Trekkies driving around in the dune buggy? Why didn't they just beam around the planet?
It's obviously in a date-rapist's interest to persuade women to think they should feel free to take all sorts of risks with men they barely know. The best world from the date-rapist's point of view is one in which every woman is convinced to the core of her being that no woman ever "deserves" to be raped regardless of what she does or what signals she sends.
For those of you interested in this stuff, I compiled and posted the eighth batch of The Danimal quotes.
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