Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: > One of the greatest success stories has been in conservative Switzerland where heroin was legalised in 1994, allowing addicts to access the drugs only in clinics. Addiction dropped and not a single heroin overdose death has been recorded since the pol ....


Comment preview: There exists a disgusting situation of blatant public ignorance in America compounded by an even more disgusting sense of patriotism here. It goes like this, if someone is a police officer or a member of the military you are supposed to unquestioningly sup ....


Comment preview: Queueing for the bus is impossible. Nobody knows where the front of the queue is going to be, and so if you start a queue and the bus driver plonks his door in completely wrong place, either the whole queue cooperates in preserving its order, which is very ....


Comment preview: I spent a lot of time, during the long government formation crisis, trying to explain this to people. They'd laugh at Belgium, saying, 'Ha! How can a country exist without a government?' I would explain that Belgium had plenty of functioning governments, f ....


Comment preview: Obviously, yes. You strangle that granny straight into the grave. The only time you do not strangle grandma until she meets her maker is when she is at sufficient range to render you incapable of strangling her before she finishes crossing the street. Unde ....


Comment preview: One day me and a buddy were hanging around a girls volleyball game after school. After checking out every babe in the gym we were bored. Since the school was fully open with only a single janitor to monitor the place we decided to screw around in classroom ....


Comment preview: I'm a 35 year old native of WA. I moved back to WA from CA to Capitol Hill (near Dicks) after 15 years away before moving to Ballard. I'm fairly liberal and understand how important protesting is for change in the world, but these people completely destroy ....


Comment preview: **Along with Breaking Bad, these should be everyone's top priorities:** * Deadwood * Mad Men * The Sopranos * The Wire They represent the very best TV has to offer. Watch them all before anything else! Although, feel free to sprinkle in some good comedies. ....


Comment preview: Jesus, NYPD. Just call yourselves a violent, thug gang and be done with it. You don't mind acting like monsters, like evil, thug scum on camera, so just come out and admit you believe in LEO anarchy. You NYPD officers are all judge, jury and executioner, a ....


Comment preview: I left the Republican party back in 2000 when they let Karl Rove vilify John McCain. They said Senator McCain was mentally unstable and a traitor. They took the level of discourse to the lowest possible level. I left shortly after the South Carolina prim ....


Comment preview: Ignore /u/therhythmofthenight because he doesn't know what he's talking about. Capitalism - An economic system where the means of production (factories, farms, and offices) are owned privately and operated for profit. Most economic activity takes place in ....


Comment preview: I'm no expert but I did study Marx, history and comparative political science at university. First off there has never been a truly communist country as Marx defined it. He lists stages of development towards communism, which itself is really a benign fo ....


Comment preview: The op should consist of several groups and missions: Groups: - **Investigatory** - Looking into background (dirt), finding anything newsworthy or suspicious - **Nuisance** - Faxing black pages, signing up for spam email/mail, robo-calls to voters, emailin ....


Comment preview: It is new years eve. The texas state troopers office receives an "anonymous" call reporting a suspicious looking vehicle parked out in the boonies. An officer is dispatched, and discovers the vehicle. He runs the plates, and the belong to a Mr. Charles Str ....


Comment preview: I always tell people to start from the fundamentals. You can't ignore the foundation of a house as much as you want satin curtains or gnomes on the lawn. From its inception, the police have been a gang bigger than any other gang and we pay them protection ....


Comment preview: Urban Decay needs to stop doing this whole naked thing. And stop doing this whole vice thing. The brand makes great fucking, stuff, really, but the stuff that everyone ends up loving is the stuff that's all it's own. Take the electric palette; people love ....


Comment preview: Ahh the great middle school days... This one day stands out in particular. It was 8th grade and Taco Day, an instant recipe for disaster. A fight broke out in the cafeteria, and of course everyone stood on the table to watch. After a minute or so securit ....


Comment preview: Your problem is you're too educated. If you actually read Nozick (I'm assuming *Anarchy, State and Utopia*), you've done more than 99% of libertarians ever will. Instead they get bite sized propaganda from Reason and Cato. Or worse, they get it from Mise ....


Comment preview: I have a mental illness and saw that there was a protest in my city regarding the shooting death and beating related death of two mentally ill people. The news ran this biased piece about anarchy downtown and riots. I arrived and found that things were a ....


Comment preview: > It's sorta scary. Like Obama is smart and his people are smart, they're obviously doing this on purpose, but wtf is that purpose IMO the problem with being smart is that you can easily get to a point where you decide before you get into office on a se ....


Comment preview: From the outside looking in, I'd day its the notion that any and all forms of regulation on, or deviation from, capitalism and freedom are fucking commie bullshit. A fair minimum wage, paid sick leave, paid maternity leave, paid holidays, employee rights a ....


Comment preview: >The 10-point American Freedom Agenda would work to restore the roles of Congress and the federal judiciary to prevent such abuses of power and protect against injustices that are the signature of civilized nations. In particular, the American Freedom ....


Comment preview: >Is there any evidence that absent external control (police, FBI, etc.) people would behave rationally and treat others as we often suggest? I think that people tend to act in their own selfish interests. I know that police and similar things can be pri ....


Comment preview: Former Hot Topic worker here- don't worry, 99% of them grow out of it. I had loyal customers start at 12 years old and buy EVERYTHING from the store. They're just searching for an identity and for whatever reason, the idea of edge/punk/anarchy all pre-labe ....


Comment preview: There were an insane amount of plotholes in Rises. Wall of text incoming, prepare your anus. 1. A CIA aircraft DOESN'T HAVE RADAR? 2. The CIA couldn't tell the airplane crash was phoney? The aircraft was attacked from the outside; there were bullets fired ....