Frank, As I said I liked those statistics you gave but I've found another problem with them. Aren't the statistics made by asking the inmates what religion they belong to? I remember from earlier posts you wrote that you suspected US inmates of choosing their religion according to the privileges it ...

Frank, Although the theist/atheist debate is not usually my cup of tea, I found your last post very interesting. The problem with figures about the US is that since Christians are such a majority in the country, it's not really surprising that they end up being a majority in jail as well. Perhaps be...

Interbane wrote:

Maybe a few questions will help clarify this interesting notion:

Is Kim Jong-il an man or woman?

Was Mao Zedong an man or woman?

Was Pol Pot an man or woman?

Was Stalin an man or woman?

You forgot to mention Margaret Thatcher!

This seems like an over-simplification to me.

Sorry my method didn't work for you, and I'd like to know why

Your method should work, but google only gave me one post from Booktalk.org with "french fries", and it wasn't the one i was looking for.
But generally I think it's a very good way of looking for a post.

Disagreement over the entry of Turkey in the European Union. Obama said in two high profile speeches (one in Europe, one in Cairo) that he strongly supports Turkey's becoming a member of the EU. If this had been said by George W, there would have been talk about insufferable meddling, but Obama is s...

Tom, with your search method, i have found one (very interesting) post at BT, but not the one i was looking for, so I'm going to answer here, and perhaps the writer will take me back to the thread. There is an entry at wiki on the subject. On March 11, 2003, Representatives Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) an...

Thanks Tom!

Yesterday I happened to listen to Newt Gringrich on CNN, criticizing Barack Obama's policies about the environment. His solution was to drill for more oil in Alaska, so that America would not have to change its lifestyle. So don't bother with using technology to produce cleaner cars, houses that tha...

Naturally, I greatly admire President Obama, and am looking forward to 8 years of wise governance from him. Still, I was pleasantly surprised to see that he seemed to agree with me on the subject of nuclear weapons. As I said before, this business of non-proliferation treaties which are respected by...