"Yes, people who think they can cure AIDS by screwing virgins and can’t rid themselves of a disease like Guinea worm ... are too primitive to take care of themselves."

That's why they need education, not hand-outs. You don't learn anything by getting a free ride. It's like a mother who does absolutely everything for her kid and then wonders why he can't even do his own damn laundry when he's forty. Except in this case, the stakes are a lot higher than just having no clean underwear.

Tomatoe: a variety of not-sweet fruit grown by Dan Quayle. See also: potatoe.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

As harsh as it is, I don't think just handing out aid is doing much good in the long run. They need education so they can learn that what they're doing isn't working, and they need education so they can fix the problems for themselves. Africa needs to learn... not just be given the answers to their problems in the form of money and medicine. Because (as this article rather harshly points out) you'll just end up with a different problem later on: too many people who don't know how to take care of themselves, and not enough resources to support them all anyway.

God, you're foul, Jimbo. And what does that have to do with anything?

At first glance, this sounds like a bad idea. But if you look at the route map for Jazz, you'll see that most of their flights are over land.

http://www.flyjazz.ca/english/ourComm/routeMap.asp

Would you rather have a sheriff who doesn't have any idea what your situation is like... or one who might have a bit of an idea because he's put himself in his prisoners' shoes?

Now if we could just get politicians to temporarily live on the salaries of their constituents and doctors to spend time in their own hospitals, we'd be well on the way to creating more empathy in society.

"My buddy Kidd left his laptop in his oven while away - you know, in case of break-in or fire, it’d be safe."

Not if the fire starts in the oven.

If she'd been wearing a heterosexual.com t-shirt, none of this would have happened. I went and looked at the site and it appears to be just a resource site for lesbians. Hardly offensive (maybe some of the links are a little more graphic, but the site itself is quite tame).

And with "jokes" like Jimbo's floating around, you can see why lesbians would feel victimized.

I guess we now know what Jimbo sits around thinking about all day.

Kind of a waste of time when you can just Photoshop something similar. Especially since most people will assume it was Photoshopped anyway.

"It’s amazing how neat the hole is. Two people died and over 1,000 had to be evacuated..."

At first, I thought they meant "neat" as in Neatorama "neat". But I think they just meant "tidy". I hope.

"Be careful, the global warming cult members will start saying it is man’s fault that the world is getting holes in it."

That's kind of irrelevant, Jimbo. It's also a pretty lame attempt to troll.

'shopped.

They're ugly... and they're also toxic. But I guess that's just another problem we're supposed to put off until later.

LOL... now I'm having visions of someone rigging up a "cow compass".

That's just weird.

"If the ice age is coming, there is a small chance that we could prevent or at least delay the transition, if we are prepared to take action soon enough and on a large enough scale.

For example: We could gather all the bulldozers in the world and use them to dirty the snow in Canada and Siberia in the hope of reducing the reflectance so as to absorb more warmth from the sun.

We also may be able to release enormous floods of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) from the hydrates under the Arctic permafrost and on the continental shelves, perhaps using nuclear weapons to destabilise the deposits."

What a great idea! I mean, what else are we going to do with all those extra nukes?

If he's wrong, though, we will have made our environment that much dirtier with carbon emissions from the bulldozers and radioactivity from the fallout.

He sounds like a putz to me.