Recent content by Tobias Funke

Next time, go the right distance away from the sign and hold up a hot dog at arm's length so it looks like the actual size. It's the poor man's "holding up the leaning tower of Pisa" picture.

Why is it a problem to weigh both sides and come down in favor of one? I literally don't even know how you can think that's a problem. It's all well and good to say that we should try to find a common ground (and yes, not murdering police officers is definitely part of it), but it doesn't have...

No, when the quote is put in context I don't think it's particularly inflammatory and I certainly don't think he's "daring" people to shoot cops. But even if someone thinks that, the way the quote was taken out of context for the purpose of ascribing certain ideas to Sharpton himself instead...

That's such a misleading omission of single quotation marks that it's a flat out lie.

I have a few comments about the poll questions but I do want to say that in fairness to mheslep, I don't know if he (I think it's a he) really did try to say that this is representative of true Islam as it's generally understood, which is why I started with an "if." It's just that since no...

Do you mean a connection between Islamic extremists and ISIS? He's pretty clear that they follow a perverted brand of Islam: If saying that they follow a perverted brand of Islam is significantly different to you than saying that they're Islamic extremists, then you're looking for reasons to...

Maybe because it has been less than a day and information is still coming in? Here's a recent CNN article where he's called a terrorist and named, as well s being linked to Tunisia. They only refrain from directly sating that he had ISIS connections because he may very well not have...

As has just about everyone in the world, as well as acknowledging that the terrorists are Muslim extremists, which is why I don't know what people are supposedly not saying in order to avoid hurting others' feelings (I'm referring to dipole's post now). I think I have an idea, and it may shock...

In a geocentric reference frame, the apple moves and the Earth doesn't. In the Malus domestica-centric frame, the Earth moves and the apple doesn't.

That seems fairly easy to me. I don't think just anybody should be allowed to have certain kinds of weapons no matter what, but then again I just hate the Constitution and freedom. Edit: I can already see this going in circles, so I'm done posting. This onion article sums it up pretty well.

Mental health reform and effective gun control can both happen simultaneously, you know. I see a lot of monotone and ineffective blather from the right too: Chicago, black on black crime, why focus on the LGBT aspect because they're all part of the larger class of bipeds?, mental health...

Whether it makes the news or not, it happens.

What are you talking about? They're constantly publicly denouncing the radicals, and they are in this case too.

A little off topic, but almost every single Twain quote I've ever seen online has been fake. This one is a borderline non sequitur and Twain was one of the most vehement writers I've ever read. Source?

That doesn't surprise me all that much, but that's only because I've read the chapter in Lies My Teacher Told Me about the myth that educated people are somehow more liberal or tolerant (the specific example was regarding the war in Vietnam). I was a little surprised then, even thought in...