DC Sniper

By calling it a magazine for "elitist pricks" you're attacking the source for not adhering to your standards of good wirting. I won't vouch for the rest of the magazine, but I will say that this particular piece was actually engaging, even if you already know the story that it being told. At the very least, its descriptions of the vast advances we've made in regards to arson should reinforce your views of the current state of forensic science and the of the confidence we can have in conviction rates.

I actually was pretty sure you'd say this, but I caught it too late to really alter it. Read the opening sentences of the above post: I've been running around like hell all day, then working since. Nobody can ever be fully successful at qualifying every sentence so nobody will be offended, and this is especially true if your brain isn't working on full thrusters.

The magazine is marketed towards elitist pricks, i am sure not every single person that reads it is one. I am sure not every person that watches Fox News is a Republican or a retard, though Fox News seems to cater to that segment of the population the most.

Perhaps I should have been more specific. I am well aware of a good teacher's ability to foster the potential within their students, but I was questioning more the ability of a teacher to alter political viewpoints. While your professor was able to show you a love for writing which you may not have known that you had, the same success might not necessarily be found in convincing you of a need for socialized health care. As you said, if you want to learn, you will. If you don't, then you probably won't absorb much.

I have worked in healthcare before which gave me experience with the people that use healthcare, and I could make a very long and rousing speech that most of htese people are the bottom of the gutter, and don't deserve healthcare, but rather a bullet to the head. Seriously, when you work in an office and people come in for health care and the ones that aren't paying for it, (they're on Public Aid,) are invariably the ones iwth the biggest sense of entitlement and the fewest manners, you REALLY stop caring about their "rights."

Yeah, I am a Republican, but I am a person too. People from a particular segment of the population insulting a person every day for roughly 4 years, and repeatedly stealing literally everything from his office htat is not nailed down will cause that person to form negative opinions about that group of people. Those negative opinions are not "politically correct," but they are true. Pretty much all there is to it.

There are a couple issues, (socialized healthcare being one of them,) that severely piss me off, therefore I am not as competent at arguing them. If you lose your composure during one of these things, it becomes a shouting match rather than a debate. However, every person feels like this on at least a couple issues, so I am sure it's not just me. I don't really want to talk about this particular issue.