I'm not a Netflix subscriber so I won't be seeing it soon.  If they eventually make it available on DVD, though, I'm sure I'll buy it.

iWc, I'm not trying to be offensive - and maybe I'm miss-interpreting your intended point - but this is the kind of thing that makes some people think conservatives are closed-minded.  There is a strain of conservatism that says "I know the key to having a perfect life.  You should do it the way I tell you or you are doing it wrong."  If you are satisfied with your life, that's great.  I don't think it makes other people wrong for enjoying things that you have no interest in.

Thanks for telling us about this, Mollie.  I just made my donation.

Well said, Senator Paul. When a politician is putting some kind of exemption or credit in the tax code to encourage some behavior, they call it an incentive.  Then when someone does the thing the government wanted done and takes the tax credit, they're berated as some kind of crook who is exploiting a loophole.  It would be like the government giving out millions (or billions) of dollars in college grants, then hauling college students before a committee so they can be denounced as greedy for making use of those grants.

Ah, but haven't you heard?  A bunch of them attacked three ships, stole the cargo and dumped it into Boston Harbor.  There's your terrorist connection right there.

By the way, am I the only one who doesn't know what "long bow" means in this context? 

Good point.  When I think about countries with little sexual freedom I think of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan.  These are not countries with a great respect for civil liberties in general. 

Wait a minute, are you guys suggesting Alex Jones shouldn't be believed when he says that the "global elite" eat roasted human babies wrapped in gold foil at their banquets?  Next you are going to say he's nuts when he says that TSA screeners are patting children down to acclimate them for their future kidnapping and molesting by government pedophiles.

Do you want that to be federal law or would you be satisfied if it was legal from the federal government's point of view, but your state still banned it?  Even though there are no states that ban alcohol, there are dry counties, and the same principle could apply here.  If the federal government decided to treat marijuana like alcohol, your state would still have the ability to keep it illegal if that's what the majority of it's citizens wanted.

OK, so Rand Paul won't be leading the charge to decriminalize marijuana.  But if the movement gained a lot of support in Congress, to the point that legislation passed in both houses, does anybody think that President Paul would veto it?  If RP were president, would he have federal officers cracking down on medical marijuana facilities that are legal under state law, as the current administration does?  He's not a hard-core libertarian but he'd be so much better than any president any of us have personally experienced.

I have to scoff every time I hear someone say that the decision to abort should be up to the woman and her family.  In what state can the family overrule the wishes of a pregnant woman?  Her husband, parents, siblings, and other children have absolutely zero rights in this matter, as far as I know.  If there is some state that is an exception to this rule, I don't know about it.

I don't want anyone to think I'm defending Gosnell, because I agree that he's a monster.  Keep in mind though, he wouldn't have performed any of these abortions if customers didn't come to him to have their babies killed.  Save some righteous indignation for the "mothers" who paid to have their offspring aborted after they were several months along.

The danger of having a tax code that is tens of thousands of pages long is that everyone is probably guilty of some violation without even realizing it.  That makes it a perfect tool for harassing the enemies of those in power.

There you go again Barkha, saying practically everything I wanted to say.  Not everything should be turned into a left/right issue.  We hate it when Chris Mathews and company look for the angle in every news story that can be used to bash conservatives.

This reminds me of every time I see some Chicago official on TV talking about shootings.  They rarely mention that there are some very bad neighborhoods with a lot of crime or concede that their gun control laws have failed.  The blame always lies in the "out-of-state" guns brought into Chicago.  As if it's those darn gun-totin' tourists from Wisconsin and Indiana who come in and shoot the place up. 

For something simple, I like Parrot Bay Rum and orange juice.

13/13.  I find it interesting that for every question, there is a drop-off in correct answers for the 65+ age group.  Does that mean we're likely to forget these answers when we cross that barrier?