Ok, so lately, there's all this garbage about the "n" word, and "ho's" being used to only describe black women, etc. Yet when somebody uses the word "cracker", everybody turns the other cheek. WTH is that about? And some people think it's ok to use their derrogatory terms when referring to their own race. What is so glamorous about disrespecting your own race? Its done out of ignorance more than anything. If more people were more educated about the origins of said words, perhaps then they'd know why its offensive in the first place, and stop using them.
Pluto is still a planet, I don't care what the science community says about it. I was taught in elementary school it was a planet, its still a ball'd rock that rotates, has days, and circles the sun, its a planet. And the one just outside of that one should be considered one too. Just because its way out there, and small, doesn't mean it should be considered insignificant.
Global warming. To answer the Harvard Professor's assumption that "We can't be that stupid.", in reference to us continuing to destroy our own planet. And the answer is, "YES! We ARE that stupid." The minute society cares more about which celebrity is screwing who, and when we have to choose between the lesser of two evils when it comes to political choices, and are more concerned about how to make our own lives more comfortable, we don't care about the global community as a whole.
If an asteroid were to approach, and it theaten the earth, we could at least launch enough nuclear weapons to totally blow it to hell, and can do it in subsequet waves, making it smaller and smaller till its harmless. But our own space agency doesn't have the funding to watch, and track all the objects out there. So if we allow our own planet to be destroyed by our own hands, and our own existence is wiped out because of our inaction to do anything, so be it. We brought it about ourselves, and chose to ignore it, thinking it'd go away, instead of doing the responsible thing, and try to reverse it.
As for me, I'm not gonna recycle, drive a more fuel efficient vehicle, or anything else to help save the planet. I'll just be one of the millions, or billions of people that just don't care. If we're gonna destroy it, let's hurry up and get it over with, so we won't have to prolong the suffering.
