Vidal behaved like a graceless ass. I’m no fan of McCain, but the only acceptable defense I can imagine for Vidal is dementia.

Wait, aren’t you the same guy who said Mary Ruwart was a nutjob for questioning child porn laws?

In this case the viewing is the crime. I hope you can see the difference between between jacking off to a ten year old boy and watching a robbery on a security camera. Is a nurse that does a rape kit as guilty as the rapist? No. Also, why can’t you pederasts understand that viewing child porn and rape porn is morally equivalent to being there watching the act.

“Does confinement in a prison camp with torture constitute heroism?”

Yes, especially when you keep your mouth shut. I’m sure many at Gitmo are considered heroes by their supporters. They’ve probably earned some respect from their captors also just as I’m sure McCain earned respect from the VC.

It seems more like the intent is to make the public feel good about “doing something” and to provide more employment for those employed in the “justice” industries. If you wish to hunt down and prosecute those who actually committed the alleged illegal act then have at it I suppose but spending all the time and effort chasing people who viewed an image doesn’t make much sense. About as much sense as devoting officers to slink around the internet talking dirty to pervs and entrapping them. It just doesn’t seem a productive use of resources that we are constantly told are stretched thin and needing more tax money.

I think in the final analysis I’d rather have pervs sitting behind monitors getting their jerk on to perverted pictures rather than sacrifice Liberty, privacy and endangering countless innocent people in a witch hunt over pictures.

Oh and yes the russert coverage was way, way over the top.

Almost certainly.

A working fusion reactor design within the next three to five years. Low cost energy.

Computers with the computing power of the human brain within ten years. Machines capable of mundane tasks that only be done by a human level intelligence.

Nanoscale molecular assembly technology possibly within twenty Years. Low cost materials and manufacturing.

If so, would torturing and imprisoning those in Gitmo make those folks heroes as well?

McCain wants to make heroes out of those in Gitmo? Could you elaborate a bit cause I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

Tim Russert was one of the most liked and respected of political journalists. By the common people, you and me. The only people who are complaining it seems are other journalists.

Why shouldn’t NBC mourn him for as long as they want? He was an extraordinqry person and mentor. I would much prefer the info about Tim Russert and the conversations that took place on MSNBC than the drivel the networks usually provide.

Isn’t it extraordinary to hear that too much time is spent in mourning a beloved? Only in America. Only by journalists who provide entertainment instead of unbiased news. Neil Postman in his book ‘Amusing Ourselves To Death’ would be astonished that there was one person in the news business that should be afforded this amount of time and information.

Perhaps Vidal is a crank, but there is some truth there…

Yes, yes, I know. Merely arguing about child porn laws makes me a degenerate child predator who would roast poor innocent preschoolers on a spit before consuming them with sautéed
mushrooms and a good Cabernet.

Asshat! First you should marnate them, then roast them, with a good rotissiere. And they go wonderfully with brussel sprouts with hollandaise sauce.

Irrational nonsense that could only have come out of the US and UK.