Why? Because someone might be offended? This is one of the reasons why Christians are losing the cultural fight right now. This is exactly the kind of time to use Biblical quotes, to put our lives in context of the bigger picture and teach what's really important.

The Conservative Party.  Plain and simple. "Constitution Party" is already taken, or I'd throw that out there too.

Oh come on. The title of the episode had "zombie" in it. 

More likely it's the Lord of the Flies.

That's because of the historical legacy of the Episcopals being "America's Church"... the vast majority of the Founding Fathers were Episcopal. But history has no bearing on present reality, where the EC has become a hollowed corpse, a zombified, empty mockery of what it once was, with empty pews testifying to the long work of self-destruction that people like the Bishop have so earnestly tried to accomplish.

Mike LaRoche

Socialism and Islam both seek the destruction of the West, hence their de facto alliance.

Don't forget feminists. Three groups utterly at odds with each other, yet united in their zeal to destroy the West.

I think the population is far gone enough that not only is 2016 safe for Democrats, 2014 might be too.

Hate crime, more likely.

Mike LaRoche

Nigel Farage needs to be the next Prime Minister of the UK.  Time for some sensible immigration policies throughout the West.

How much do you want to bet that the next PM elected is Labour, on a platform of More Europe, More Socialism, More Multiculturalism?

Many times, yes, this is the historical pattern. But it can't go on forever. All civilizations reach a point where they "break", and the pendulum stops swinging, and the civilization simply dies. I think we've passed that point of no return. No civilization in history has done what we're doing and continued for long. Those stereotypes of decadent Rome, with the orgies and stuff? Way overblown, and what of it that did happen was in the late Empire not long before it collapsed. Romans were famously prudish in public, even close to the end. A Caesar banished his daughter to an island... and not a comfortable imprisonment, either... because she was easy.

The question is begged here, though: is moral decline a cause of civilization death, or a symptom?

Someone here once said they didn't like Rick Santorum because he was a "scold". Well, take a gander at these numbers, whoever you were: the nation desperately needs fewer cool kids and more scolds. I'm not optimistic about the future.When I was a child, I really didn't have much hope for the future because the conventional wisdom was that the Soviets were going to nuke everything into oblivion. Nothing terrified me as a boy quite like that old HBO special (with Orson Welles narrating) about Nostrodomus and his supposed prophecy about NYC being nuked, resulting in a John Carpenter-like wasteland were we slowly died of radiation while turning to cannibalism to feed. After the Soviet union imploded with a gentle *poof*, I was quite the optimist about the future, of America and the world.  That's all gone now. The Bible gives some comfort, as it has stated all along that it would come to this... but it's still depressing to see "One Nation Under God" becoming the worst kind of Sodom and Gomorra. And it's our own children that will betray us and tear down everything. 

And now Ofonagoro runs an investment firm. Maybe he's the Nigerian I keep getting all those offers of free money from.

I agree, but I think the dissenters had a point. This ruling basically takes away any power of courts to say "*insert alphabet agency here* has gone too far". There isn't any agency anywhere that should be able to expand the scope of their power on their say-so alone.

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I had very few bad teachers... bad in the mentally scarring Another Brick In The Wall sense... but I did have quite a few nice teachers that were in over their heads, and coaches were usually at the center of this. Most were friendly, sweet people that had absolutely no background in the classes they were assigned. They were usually coaches assigned to teach geography classes, history classes, etc. I knew more about the subject... even as a teenager... than they did at the time. They did the best they could, but their backgrounds were athletics, so preparing for class usually meant reading the chapter before we did, and then doing their best to lead a class discussion on it. It would be a bit like me being assigned to teach a class on crochet, and being told "just do your best". I knew a music teacher that had a computer science class tossed in his lap. His classes consisted of letting kids surf the web.

This is part of the larger problem of the Cult of Expertise. Expertise is a fine thing and necessary, but we've made a fetish of it, and ignore the shortcomings. Experts are still human, after all, with all of humanity's imperfections, including motive, judgement, etc.