"You know what's interesting about the word 'big'? It's smaller than the word 'small.' And the word 'little.' And even the word 'tiny.' How can that be?" I sometimes have the same sort of reaction to my government's threat perceptions.
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"Mom, football players are raping a lot of women." And getting away with it.
“Why are there so many First Christian Churches? Do they all want to be number one? And why should this matter? Isn’t the whole thing about God that he loves.
"Let's look it up on that poster, then, Mom. I might be wrong about TV, but I'm pretty sure children do have the right to set their own bedtime." Nope. (more…)
"I don't understand why people used to call it 'quartering' when your body ends up in five pieces. I guess they didn't consider the head or the chest to be.
"It's gonna be the 2010s, Mom. Aren't we supposed to be at war with the machines by now?" Um... (more…)
"Mom, would our President ever send Santa to fight in a war?"
"Life seems great when you have it your way but better when you don’t." I had to ask my son what he meant by that when I saw it written.
“OK, so how is this different than us finding out what our friends are saying about other people and then passing that information along to get them mad at each other? Don’t you adults always tell us not to do that?” Ah, yes. There is...
“We're kind of trying to make allies with every continent around the world, aren't we? But then at the same time, we're like trying to take over those continents too..
Why would any self-respecting scientist choose that as their mission? That was my son's response to this story on the front page of the Times today. But he could have.