[Max Cow Disease]

I like Ron Paul, and wish more Americans had joined his camp.

I, too, like Bouwmeester (perhaps only because I'm subconsciously attempting to justify my jersey purchase).

I'm not all that tolerant of religious faith, as we're often told we must be. In today's world of such tremendous and increasingly expansive human knowledge, I view it as dangerous that so many purely faith-based claims are allowed to float around in the public discourse relatively unscathed. Militant Islam has most people afraid to criticize a whole myriad of genuinely repugnant ideas in many parts of the world, and you have no chance of being President of the world's most powerful nation if you don't endorse that the Bible in some way or another represents the word of the creator of the universe. We're at a point in human history where the fusion of destructive weaponry and outmoded perspectives of the world could pose a real hazard, and I'm of the opinion that the religiously moderate or non-fundamentalist among us make matters worse by apologizing for these bad ideas or for the type of world views that give rise to them.