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Warren DeMontague

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3. I think broad based generalizations are bullshit, and not helpful. There are, what, 150 Million Men
Sun Jan 27, 2013, 03:46 PM
Jan 2013

in the US?

Yes, verily, we can rattle off some offhanded sentence to talk about ALL of them, and what's "wrong" with 'em.

I've never fired a gun in my life. I'm an West Coast, Atheist hippie. I've never owned a pickup truck.

That I have some massive amount in common with a Fundamentalist NRA member from Alabama, is ridiculous.

As for Bill Maher, I agree with him about 85% of the time. Some of his insights on politics, religion, or the drug war, are spot on. But he's one of these, what I consider, stoner pseudo-intellectuals. He's probably a good 20 or so IQ points above the general population, and 70 IQ Points above the average Republican. But he thinks this makes him Michio Kaku or Stephen Hawking, and when he opines on shit like medicine and vaccines, NASA, or science, he's at times out of his depth.

(Sorry, Bill! )

What's funny, though, is that there is near-universal loathing of him from some quarters for his vaguely libertarian (eeeeewwwww!) attitudes towards sex, porn, and drugs... If the history of these sorts of things is any guide, though, those same folks will become the guy's biggest fans when he fires broad slams against "all men".

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