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I'm not saying in countries where guns are illegal there is no gun crime, but it's highly reduced. Because you don't have...guns to commit gun crimes with. Not having guns ...

England has banned handguns, but the number of knife crimes in London has spiked in the past couple of years. Just because you outlaw guns doesn't mean people will stop ...

They have that kind of Elliot Smith factor--they're not around anymore, so it's twice as cool. XD I lovelove the characters in Two Headed Boy, plus Goldaline and the Pree ...

Mmm, yes, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is probably the best album I've ever heard. ^_^ It's so not-beautiful and raw, and yet the lyrics are amazing--they're kind of ...

A growing trend in Africa seems to be for pupular leaders to tend toward dictatorship as soon as they realise there are no real barriers ton them seixing control of ...

Galatea-- you will note that I called the US a "representative democracy". idle muse-- That wasn't an insult! I'm sorry if it sounded like one. :( What I meant by ...

The UK does not have a representative democracy. You also have a Queen, who is not a political influence, but still exists none the less. You have a house of ...

It's not quite the same as American democracy, which the Western world is trying to re-create in Zimbabwe.

Well that's the thing, democracy that might work in the UK may not do so in Zimbabwe. You do realize that the UK is not a democracy and that it's ...

I would say that if society still viewed it as a shameful thing to do stuff like that, this kind of thing wouldn't happen for the most part. Unless they ...

(Vern--no media source is "entirely neutral". The New York Times happens to be a liberal-leaning source.) For many Americans, McCain = republican = Bush = bad. The Republican party as ...

*absorbs Kylan* The Decemberists Sufjan Stevens Belle & Sebastian Of Montreal Neutral Milk Hotel Bright Eyes Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos Death Cab for Cutie The New Pornographers ...

Does that have anything to do with the global food crisis?

Aet--you're right that in many countries it's slowing down (many European nations, such as Germany and Russia, are actually facing population decline). However, the world population continues to incre

Griff-- Thomas Malthus, one of the foremost demographers, has noticed that food production will always be below food demand. Why? The population expands exponentially, whereas food production increase