Yes.

We really do have an odd relationship with medication and morality.

No one I know would claim you should suffer the headache for the sake of an immoral NSAID. However, chemically speaking, you are altering a whole host of bodily functions every time you pop an ibuprofen. It's not to be taken lightly, but we tend to not even think about it because we generally aren't very aware of it's effects short of taking away our headache or making our knee stop swelling.

It's interesting when the function of the drug has more pronounced effects suddenly we question it's morality. We tend to raise an eyebrow when a pill makes us feel too good. It ceases to be a fever reducer and becomes a "high." No headache is OK, no headache and a silly grin on your face, bad. If the drug affects our naughty bits or enhances our athletic ability then we really start to see the objections.  

In the end, though, we are altering our body's chemicals. If there are degrees of purism, I don't see it. I say better living through pharmaceuticals. 

[Edit: condensed version of a rambling response]

Ultimately I have more faith in the Swedes to fight off a North African Muslim insurrection than I worry the aggressors would take advantage of such rights to take over the place.

It's the same reason why I believe more people should be armed in Detroit, Chicago and D.C.

[edit: lost my train of thought :) ]

Clearly they need tighter gun laws and to promote more diversity. It's pretty simple, people.

Let the Walled Lake vs. Northville downtown cafe wars begin!

I'll admit it--I've never heard of that rule in my life. Actually makes me want to play the game.

#winning

Up until about 9 months ago I lived in South Lyon. Didn't grow up in the area, though.

Really looking forward to this. In the libertarian sphere, I'm pretty pro-life compared to the crowd. I tend to fall in line with the thinking that if it's a human it deserves rights and no one can take them away, not even the mother. If it's a glob of cells, not so much... 

The key here, for libertarians I think, is the science. 

In light of your confession (um, no pun intended), you may find this interesting.

Welcome back. 

Oh nice. I heard the author on EconTalk recently. Count me in.

I enjoyed it. I thought it played a solid homage to Wrath, in spite of never coming close to matching, nor, certainly not, exceeding the original.

The admiral's daughter was a real weak link in the cast if you ask me.

Zach Quinto was once again not only the best recast(?), but the best actor of the series. 

The effects were nice as well. I'm glad they have resisted the temptation to go balls out "Lucas" on these new films and fill them up with a bunch of visually detracting crap on the screen for every shot.

I'll be there for the next one.

Yeah, I guess I meant for those that can legally order a 30 rd mag. 

You can get PMAGs pretty easily now too. Surprisingly they are generally found at pre-scare prices.

I've mentioned a couple of these in other posts, but here goes...

A former collegue and facebook friend posted the following gems (not exact quotes, but as close as I can recall):

"I've been reading the Harry Potter series with my daughter and am very concerned that her first impression of government is that the Ministry of Magic, their government, is bad and not to trust it."

On tax day a couple of years ago:

"Today I did the most patriotic thing I can do: pay my taxes."

This one I'll never forget. It comes from my ex-wife's flaming liberal cousin around 3PM 9/11/2001:

"You know, I was taking earlier with some of my friends and we kind of all agreed that in a lot of ways America deserved this."

And probably the worst one ever, compliments of one of my co-workers, many years ago:

"The thing is, Jefferson was a radical, a revolutionary. He would be advocating we blow this whole thing up, because it's not working."

To which I sort of agreed with, until he followed it up with:

"He'd want something more fair like Communism."