Watch Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch and Stossel Talk About Being REASONable Tonight on Fox News at 10 p.m. & 1 a.m. ET

Did you miss Thursday's special "Be Reasonable" episode of Stossel on Fox Business Network, featuring two local jackalopes talking about for-a-magazine-named-Reason? Don't you fret: It's on again on Fox News tonight at 10 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PT, with repeats three hours later.

On the episode, John Stossel (see his Reason archive here) tries to inject some reason into such subjects as climate change, authoritarianism, the minimum wage, ghosts, astrology, and how people prefer other people who are attractive. Here's how he describes the Reason segment:

REASON: Twenty years ago, I wasn't so rational. When neither liberal nor conservative publications made much sense to me, I discovered the libertarian magazine "Reason," which is skeptical of both the left and right. Reason editors Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch (host of "The Independents") say libertarians are more rational than others.

Here's a video tease of the segment:

Follow along on Twitter, using the hashtags #STOSSEL and #Reason during the show. Follow Stossel on Twitter: @fbnstossel.

Comments

[RussianPrimeMinister]

REASONable

Uhhh. . .drink?

[wadair]

Salud.

[straffinrun]

Kompai

[Libertarian]

Jackanapes?

[userve32]

Well now that makes a LOT of sensedude.

http://www.AnonPlanet.tk

[Stormy Dragon]

Seriously, FUCK Dick Cheney:

CIA interrogators heroes not torturers: Cheney

[GILMORE]

Not to make an issue out of it (because who really wants to get in the way of a Cheney-Hate session?)...

... does it not cross your mind that the people we 'tortured' were themselves involved in murdering 3000 citizens because .... uh, jihad, or something?

And while i also dislike moral-relativism games...

(e.g. who's worse: Stalin/Hitler/Pol Pot/Mao/Ronald McDonald/Sam Walton/the Pope/or Diane Feinstein?)

... i think its sad and reprehensible that the US tortured a dozen Al Qaeda dudes; I still think NSA surveillance is *worse*

Im not sure why Dick Cheney's 'opinion' at this point excites such vehement denunciation

...when the people still in power may have 'stopped' the enhanced interrogation practice, but not made any effort to make it *illegal*. as of now, the same practices could be renewed as soon as the next president says so.

[Bo Cara Esq.]

When I saw Stormy's post I thought, how long before Gilmore or TIT shows up to start qualifying it?

[GILMORE]

Because you're the clever one.

[JPyrate]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/15903.....mcku0w80_b

[JPyrate]

Here's something a little sharper to split those hairs Bo. God knows you need it. You boring bastard.

[Swiss Servator, Winter kommt!]

"You boring bastard"

Ah, finally the succinct summary I sought!

[Stormy Dragon]

... does it not cross your mind that the people we 'tortured' were themselves involved in murdering 3000 citizens because .... uh, jihad, or something?

What about the ones who weren't involved in terrorism and the US knew weren't involved in terrorism and we tortured anyways just to make sure?

[JPyrate]

As long as there is war, there is going to be torture. Its the nature of violent conflict.

Pen, and Sword in accord.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi

The Book of Five Rings.

[JPyrate]

What I am trying to say is that you cannot impose rules on violent conflict.

[GILMORE]

I'm sorry, you didn't specify that your heart was bleeding bled only for some of them, and that you were totally kosher with the dozen mass murderers getting the treatment.

Dick Cheney is definitely an evil monster for actually trying to catch the specific people who planned terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans.

Obama and his ilk are by contrast saints for keeping everyone's hands clean and just blowing up anyone with the same last name in a certain neighborhood, and hope to get lucky and zap some baddies.

if i find the moral calculus confusing, its because i'm dull and need it explained.

[JPyrate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h27AcB70Mvc

[JPyrate]

@ Gilmore Messing with you. =)

[JeremyR]

Meanwhile in Australia, an apparent Islamic terrorist has taken a cafe hostage.

CNN is covering it, don't know if Fox can be bothered to bump its talk shows to cover it.

[JeremyR]

Nope, apparently not.

Apparently terrorism only matters when it happens in the US

[JeremyR]

And CNN is now showing a film about Dinosaurs.

[Bo Cara Esq.]

Islamo-fascist dinosaurs?

Allahsaurus?

[Warrren]

Jihadrosauravus?

[Bo Cara Esq.]

Imamodon?

[Warrren]

Fatwangonisaurus?

[Suddenly Quincy]

Truckasaurus?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

I still don't like you...

...but that was funny.

[Swiss Servator, Winter kommt!]

Oh, aye. We are a collection of low villains and scum, but we do have a sense of humor, ja?!

[Juice]

It was about the government doing government things; a federal attorney trying to make a name for himself, a spiteful judge, a complete railroading and ass-fucking, etc. It was really interesting.

[John Titor]

What was American coverage of the Parliament Hill shooting like anyway? I saw the White House comment but I wasn't watching the American stations at the time.

[cavalier973]

Three people have apparently escaped from a gunman holding up to 50 occupants of a Sydney CBD cafe hostage.

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn confirmed three hostages had exited the Lindt cafe.

[PapayaSF]

From the CNN story:

Footage showed them holding up a black flag with Arabic writing on it that reads: "There is no God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God." [...] "We don't know whether this is politically motivated, although obviously there are some indications that it could be," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters.

What was your first clue?

The Islamic writing on the banner stoked fears that the crisis in Sydney could be linked to extremists.

Ya think?

[Irish]

This P.J. O'Rourke article about Girls is amazing.

It turns out Girls is a serialized horror movie?more gruesome, frightening, grim, dark, and disturbing than anything that's ever occurred to Stephen King.

I have two daughters, Poppet and her 17-year-old sister Muffin. "Girls" is about young people who are only a few years older than my daughters. These young people, portrayed as being representative of typical young people, reside in a dumpy, grubby, woeful part of New York called Brooklyn, where Ms. Dunham should put her clothes back on.

The young people in Girls are miserable, peevish, depressed, hate their bodies, themselves, their life, and each other. They occupy apartments with the size and charm of the janitor's closet, shared by The Abominable Roommate. They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake. They are tattooed all over with things that don't even look like things the way a anchor or a mermaid or a heart inscribed "Mom" does, and they're only a few years older than my daughters.

The characters in Girls take drugs. They "hook up" in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman. And they drink and they vomit and they drink and they vomit and they drink and they vomit.

[MJGreen]

Old Man Yells At Cloud

[John Titor]

This from the author of How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink?

[Bam!]

Who just now wrote: I'm looking into Women-only military schools run by strict nuns for Poppet and Muffin. I think there's one in the Philippines.

[Warrren]

Shit changes when you have daughters. It did for me.

[PapayaSF]

Funny, I met a guy a few weeks ago who told me that his brother was a total liberal lefty and then had daughters and is now a conservative.

[Whahappan?]

Fuck him and fuck Warrren (not really, just talking shit on the internet.) On a serious note, I was a libertarian without even knowing the term before my daughter was born, and have become more radical since. I have little respect for such hypocrites.

[Juice]

Poppet and Muffin?

[Buddy Bizarre]

Nom de plume(s).

Not knowing French, what would be the proper plural?

[Isaac Bartram]

Noms de plume.

[Sevo]

Anyone else getting the "40 Historical Figures You Didn't Know Were Black" click bait with a human Betty Boop?
Anyone else wondering why a fuck is given?

[Swiss Servator, Winter kommt!]

Yeah, Reason is plagues with these ads...

[Arkansaustrian Economics]

Second straight year in the Reason Fantasy Football Championship Game of the Americas and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Cylinder.

Maybe this year the title games won't come down to nothing more than "How many Peyton Mannings do you have?"

[Arkansaustrian Economics]

Second straight year in the Reason Fantasy Football Championship Game of the Americas and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Cylinder.

Maybe this year the title games won't come down to nothing more than "How many Peyton Mannings do you have?"

[PapayaSF]

Idea for a movie comedy: A rock magazine publishes a libelous article about a fraternity, the fraternity sues, and wins! Now they own the magazine! Hijinks ensue.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

No, the magazine just grows more adult and responsible.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Which would actually be a great premise for a movie.

[PapayaSF]

No, first the hijinks, then they get responsible!

[userve32]

This is why we roll with it man.

http://www.AnonPlanet.tk

[wadair]

Tulpa:

Blah, blah, blah...

I'm good, you're bad.

Blah, blah, blah.