I'm just now getting used to the idea that blogger's opinions can be cited as fact. You do realize a novel is set up as fiction on it's face, right?

BTW, if my novel does get published, the character that you wil all recognize as Shape shifter, the part about the sheep when he was growing up, i have no knowledge that it actually happened.

Warren Pease . . . is Warren Pease present?
 

So, Napolean never invaded Russia? My bad.

You do realize that Dresden is a real city and that it was actually firebombed in WWII, right? Thousands of innocent men, women, and children died there.

I'm not making any moral judgments here, other than to point out the silliness of your post, and I want to go on record as saying that silliness, or even stupidity, are not immoral in my eyes.

I don't know how long a thought sticks in your brain, not long i fear, but go back and read my post that bob responded to.

my point was that we probably shouldn't take Vonnegut's word. do you believe Billy Pilgrim and Montana wildwhatever are still screwing in some extraterrestrial zoo somewhere?

Hint: there is probably pretty convincing evidence of a convincing quality for one of these and not for the other.

Warren Pease . . . is Warren Pease present?
 

you know what i meant. the problem with you making posts like this is that your side has some dull-normal people posting here and you owe them to not mislead them intellectually this way. they trust you to be intellectually honest.

Batshit Crazy Dictator In NY, Today's Version
 

He's not Arab. And it's odd to think that centuries of enmity between Arabs and Persian could be overcome by letting the guy speak at Columbia. It's a fine university, but it's not that good.

Bring your kiddies, bring your wife.
 

My side? Pony is the only other Mets fan I know around here, and I wouldn't call him dull. Or normal.

Would it kill you to post a spoiler alert?

Warren Pease . . . is Warren Pease present?
 

Would it kill you to post a spoiler alert?

Pssst! It doesn't work that way in the Catholic Church either, but many American Catholics just refuse to admit it.

I sometimes have interesting discussions with my boss where she insists she is still a Catholic even though . . . (etc.) As a Jesuit-trained former Catholic myself, I'm not buying it.

S_A_M

This is my problem with religion. Too many people half-ass it. What does it mean to be religious? Seems to me you should either be in or be out.

Dissent. As long as we don't explicitedly renounce anything we still have confession inour backpocket to clean up all those lapsed years.

;)

Yes, but not if you don't believe in it, or if you believe in stuff the Church says is absolutely verboten.

But anyway, as I have explicitly renounced it and gone elsewhere, I have to hope the Roman Church is wrong about that one true path to God thing.

S_A_M

Oh yeh - sez who?

Interesting
 

Murder rates for states with the death penalty vs. states without the death penalty:

States with the Death Penalty
Nevada - 9.0
Alabama - 8.3
Arizona - 7.5
Arkansas - 7.3
California - 6.8
Colorado - 3.3
Connecticut - 3.1
Delaware - 4.9
Florida - 6.2
Georgia - 6.4
Idaho - 6.1
Indiana - 5.8
Illinois - 6.1
Kansas - 4.6
Kentucky - 4.0
Louisiana - 12.4
Maryland - 9.7
Mississippi - 7.7
Missouri - 6.3
Montana - 1.8
Nebraska - 2.8
New Hampshire - 1.0
New Jersey - 4.9
New Mexico - 6.8
North Carolina - 6.1
Ohio - 4.7
Oregon - 2.3
Oklahoma - 5.8
Pennsylvania - 5.9
South Carolina - 8.3
South Dakota - 1.2
Tennessee - 6.8
Texas - 5.9
Utah - 1.8
Virgina - 5.2
Washington - 3.0
Wyoming 1.7

States Without the Death Penalty:
Alaska - 5.4
Hawaii - 1.6
Iowa - 1.8
Maine - 1.7
Massachusetts - 2.9
Michigan - 7.1
Minnesota - 2.4
North Dakota - 1.3
Rhode Island - 2.6
Vermont - 1.9
West Virginia - 4.1
Wisconsin - 3.0

New York (law declared unconstitutional in 2004) - 4.8