# Stupid liberal idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086 "2011-04-20T15:35:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 144
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2861 "2014-10-28T04:29:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Merriam-Webster:](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/germplasm) Definition of GERMPLASM > 1 > : germ cells and their precursors serving as the bearers of heredity and being fundamentally independent of other cells > 2 > : the hereditary material of the germ cells : genes [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com) says it’s two words. Shrug. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2862 "2014-10-28T04:29:53Z")
Isn’t a germplasm what happens if you rub her mitochondria just the way she likes it? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2863 "2014-10-28T04:38:21Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Gramps. > > Germplasm still isn’t a word. Maybe not in Gaelic, but it’s been one in English since 1889. Idiot. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2864 "2014-10-28T04:39:45Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com) says it’s two words. Shrug. Hahahahaha I’m gonna mock you for being an idiot, you idiot! Lawls! What, I’m wrong? Oh. Shrug. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2865 "2014-10-28T04:41:25Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Maybe not in Gaelic, but it’s been one in English since 1889. It’s two words, not one. See the link in post #2861. Moronic old man. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2866 "2014-10-28T04:47:43Z")
Oh. My. Ghod. I love this guy! He’s my new favorite! Please please please can we keep him?!? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2867 "2014-10-28T04:49:05Z")
Also? Germplasm and germ plasm are[two different things.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germplasm) TMYK! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2868 "2014-10-28T05:04:11Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Oh. My. Ghod. > > I love this guy! He’s my new favorite! Please please please can we keep him?!? Well, only if you feed him, and take him for walks, and clean up his sandbox. And you have to rub his feet. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2869 "2014-10-28T05:19:30Z")
Fuck. He’s a bunny? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2870 "2014-10-28T05:21:06Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Well, only if you feed him, and take him for walks, and clean up his sandbox. …and name him George, and hug him, and pet him, and squeeze him… ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2871 "2014-10-28T06:02:07Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Then why not be honest about it? Why does Coburn have to dress up every claim in lie after lie after lie? Exaggeration is normal for wingnuts of his ilk – it’s just a form of lying and doesn’t bother them. Don’t you remember – what was his name? I’ll just call him **Rightwing-libertarian-moron#314** – who made a big deal about Forbes’ claim that the FRB had dished out $20 trillion (or was it $20 quadrillion?) of taxpayer money? When the lies of Forbes were carefully explained to him, **Rightwing-libertarian-moron#314** ’s response was something like “Well, it’s the principle that counts.” :smack: I’m annoyed that both SLIOTD and SRIOTD have mutated into _Right-wing stupidity as performance art_. Can’t they start their own thread? > [@pulykamell](#): > > ETA: Actually, this is weird. Now after a couple times, the original article is not showing up under the paywall, and both the URLs are the same. I’m confused. The Javascript may check cookies or referrer. Right now, I can access from Chrome but not (unless I disable Javascript) IE or Firefox. Since cookies are browser-dependant, I’m guessing the Javascript now “likes” my Chrome self because I’m now infected with the John Kaas Facebook cookie. … And sure enough, when I clear the last hour of cookies the paywall reappears in Chrome. In any event, the fact that the sock/troll keeps mindlessly repeating himself about the very existence of the “paywall” lets us know he’s not very smart. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2872 "2014-10-28T09:09:37Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works. Evolution occurs over millennia, not the last thirty or forty years. And yet, measured rates of food allergy have gone up. This is just beyond stupid. It’s like saying “Climate change occurs over millenia, not the last thirty or forty years” when someone brings up recent ice cap melting - that’s nice, dear, but your stupid misconceptions about science do not invalidate the measurements! The fact is that we have many more food allergies now than in the past. We’re not sure _why_, but it’s a real phenomenon. Now, you can deny that, but it places you in the same camp as the people who deny that, say, the earth is going around the sun. > [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Disabling JavaScript doesn’t cost anything, so describing it as being behind a “paywall” is bullshit. Yes, and if I press “stop loading” at _just_ the right time, I can get around the NYT paywall. Doesn’t mean it’s not a paywall! > [@septimus](#): > > I’m annoyed that both SLIOTD and SRIOTD have mutated into _Right-wing stupidity as performance art_. Can’t they start their own thread? I dunno, man. This kind of is that thread - real liberal idiocy in politics is not that common, so most of the times this thread gets bumped, it’s because a right-winger gets another spate of brain diarrhea. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2873 "2014-10-28T09:14:05Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works. Evolution occurs over millennia, not the last thirty or forty years. Changes can happen from processes other than evolution. And these changes have happened, whether you deny them or not. Cancer rates, obesity, diabetes, etc., really have changed in recent history, as have the stats for allergies. It may be changes in the environment, or other causes besides human evolution. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2874 "2014-10-28T12:04:22Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Changes can happen from processes other than evolution. And these changes have happened, whether you deny them or not. Cancer rates, obesity, diabetes, etc., really have changed in recent history, as have the stats for allergies. It may be changes in the environment, or other causes besides human evolution. More to the point: This is not evolution per se, it is probably simply a case of a child’s immune system not having anything to do due to out rather sterile society. At least that is [one theory.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2875 "2014-10-28T12:22:18Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Evolution occurs over millennia, not the last thirty or forty years. I thought your kind of conservatives denied evolution! Would you be happier if we explained that many kids today have serious food allergies that didn’t exist before because Jesus did it? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2876 "2014-10-28T13:42:58Z")
For the love of Christ, why are you people feeding it? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2877 "2014-10-28T13:46:25Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > For the love of Christ, why are you people feeding it? Because the SDMB is getting $50,000 in gov’t funding to study how much shit is produced by the average…thing. And you have to feed it. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2878 "2014-10-28T13:48:08Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > For the love of Christ, why are you people feeding it? Engaging with people who disagree with me – even people who might be trolls – is one of the main reasons I come to the Dope. It’s fun. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2879 "2014-10-28T13:53:28Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > It’s two words, not one. See the link in post #2861. Moronic old man. [This link](http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/43/e9/c9/43e9c944f35965d01a3ceb6aa10307ec.jpg) may be of interest to you. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/2880 "2014-10-28T13:57:10Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Because the SDMB is getting $50,000 in gov’t funding to study how much shit is produced by the average…thing. > And you have to feed it. Very well. Carry one, but remember it’s your responsibility. You have to clean up after it, and take it for walkies. Then massage its feet afterwards. Gotta earn that grant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=143) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=145)