http://news.yahoo.com/aclu-sues-arizona-over-race-113349051.html

Basically, their argument is that the law discriminates against minorities because Asians value men and want to abort their girl fetuses (which works so well in India and China) and blacks are self-hating:

"We hope the judgment in this case will expose the true intentions of the politicians behind these abortion bans and show unequivocally that they discriminate against women of color, Asian-American and African-American in particular."

Some Asian cultures value male children, and lawmakers were concerned that female babies would be aborted as more Asians immigrated to the state, according to legislative history cited in the lawsuit. The high rate of abortions in the African-American community was cited as proof blacks were using abortion to "de-select" their own race, the suit said.

Remember your Foucault, children: breaking taboos only reinforces taboos.

These things are just opinion pieces, but I'll add mine:

The Avengers
Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Fight Club
Napoleon Dynamite
Star Wars 4-6 (not 1-3 as everyone hates them)
There Will Be Blood
Up
All Tarantino movies ever
Almost all Miyazaki movies

Regarding some of the commonly mentioned movies here:
1) Avatar is a visual masterpiece that I would gladly pay to see in 3D repeatedly. You don't see it for the plot, and it's only ok in non-3D.
2) Titanic is a great emotional movie, not so much a great thinking movie.
3) Inception is as good of a popcorn, blockbuster-type film as you'll see. It's not as deep as some make it out to be, but it's great for what it tries to be.
4) Signs is much, much better once you realize it's not an alien movie, and it's hard to call something as derided as it is "overrated"

Bigots deserved to be trolled.

False. Everyone deserves to be trolled from time to time.

Nice people and nice ideas don't deserve it. Unless people are bitter or jealous

I stand by my statement. A little trolling is good for the soul. A lot, maybe not so much.

Bigots deserved to be trolled.

False. Everyone deserves to be trolled from time to time.

They probably think classical means classic rock.

My point is that the evolution-creationism "debate" is exceedingly unimportant beyond the scientific community.

The scientific community is probably the place where the "debate" is the most unimportant...

Well yeah, but that's something of an overly narrow view on what I meant by the statement.

Yeah, I think creationists are wrong, but what harm do they do?

Education?

Even in the worst case scenario, where evolution was not taught in public schools and only YEC was, what real impact would it have on anything?

Stupid children?

An entire generation of scientifically illiterate children?  The continued refusal to accept scientific consensus?

Which effects what? Evolution is one branch of one field of science, and it is one that is not pertinent to the lives of any non-scientist. There are no policies "based" on evolution, in fact, attempts to do so have been disastrous. Besides, anyone would still be able to learn it in college if it's really that important.

My point is that the evolution-creationism "debate" is exceedingly unimportant beyond the scientific community.

Very interesting. Some yellow areas in southern Ontario are interesting. I don't know enough about them to know what denomination they are. Amish? Mennonite?

The big cluster of yellow WSW of Toronto appears to be Mennonite.

Makes sense.

There is also eastern Elgin County, western Niagara Region and Leamington that are yellow to. I wonder what they are?

The Niagara area around Lincoln, Ont. appears to also be a Dutch Mennonite-settled area. The eastern Elgin County area appears to be a mix of Mexican-born German Mennonites and Amish from Ohio who left the US due to a nuclear reactor being built near their homes.

Very interesting. Some yellow areas in southern Ontario are interesting. I don't know enough about them to know what denomination they are. Amish? Mennonite?

The big cluster of yellow WSW of Toronto appears to be Mennonite.

Religion by Census Subdivision, East Canada, 2011 NHS - "Other Christian" Separate from Protestant

Yeah, I think creationists are wrong, but what harm do they do?

Education?

Even in the worst case scenario, where evolution was not taught in public schools and only YEC was, what real impact would it have on anything?

So I'm going to try to make a couple CSD maps, but it looks like a lot of CSDs have their information redacted due to confidentiality, meaning the maps might be a bit...sparse.

Largest Ethnicity by Census Division, 2011 NHS

Joe Donnelly?

Yeah, I think creationists are wrong, but what harm do they do?

Any particular (reasonable) requests for NHS maps?

Yes. What jurisdiction boundaries can you do?

I suppose leading ethnicity by CD and by riding would be interesting.

CD, Riding, Census Subdivision

Any particular (reasonable) requests for NHS maps?

Neither are threats.

If you only look at their 7-year peaks, Pedro Martinez was probably better than both, and Randy Johnson should probably be in any discussion of the best of the past ~20 years:

Pedro Martinez, 1997-2003 (Height of the steroid era)
118-36 (.766), 2.20 ERA, 213 ERA+, 0.940 WHIP, 252 K/season, 8.2 rWAR/season, 3 Cy Youngs

Randy Johnson, 1995-2002 (8 seasons, but he was injured most of 1996)
143-44 (.765), 2.61 ERA, 177 ERA+, 1.069 WHIP, 302 K/season, 7.7 rWAR/season, 5 Cy Youngs

I've yet to see his climate posts effectively rebutted.

Is it possible to do a percentage Sally Army for Newfies, or is that filed under 'other Christian'?

Methodists are "Other Christians".

Religions are:
Buddhist
Christian (with the following sub-choices: Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Christian Orthodox, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, United Church, Other)
Hindu
Jewish
Muslim
Sikh
Traditional (Aboriginal) Spirituality
Other
No religious affiliation

Aren't Methodists part of the UCC?

lol

That map gave me a good laugh. There is some correlation to actual ideology, but some weird things stand out. Like, Newfoundland. Perhaps you need to add an industry category to your calculation so that Northern Ontario and Atlantic Canada aren't so Romney friendly. Vancouver Island also stands out- doesn't it have similar demographics as the Washington and Oregon coasts? It's one of the most left wing parts of Canada, so it's strange that it's under Romney.

I don't even know that much about Canadian politics, and the idea of Vancouver Island having a ton of Romney counties just seems crazy.

What demographic of Vancouver Island (outside Victoria and Saanich and maybe Nanaimo) would substantially favor Democrats?

So purple must be Sikh? And orange Jewish?

In the first map yes. In the second map, Jewish is yellow.

On the US census, South Asians are grouped with East Asians? It looks like that's what you did here.

Yes.

Obviously the conservatives would do well, but counties like Santa Cruz being hardcore Conservative? Come on.

First of all, Santa Cruz was projected at 42% Conservative with NDP and Liberal each getting around 25% and the Greens another 6%. Second, the demographics of Canadian elections are a fair bit different than US elections, and this is based only on demographics (that is, all else equal, how the US might have voted if it were part of Canada from close to its inception). The only particularly notable thing about Santa Cruz County demographically is its high percentage of people without a religion, but in Canada such people tend to vote for the Conservatives, or at least, all else equal, tend to live in areas where the Conservatives do well. Also, the bachelors degree percentage is high but not the graduate degree percentage, which doesn't help the NDP or Greens.

Religious Plurality by Riding, 2011 NHS - "Other Christian" Separate from Protestant



Religious Plurality by Riding, 2011 NHS - "Other Christian" Combined with Protestant