My three year old is speaking complete sentences with correct syntax and grammar. And the ideas that he expresses are mostly sane. The next challenge is getting him to stop talking for a minute or two.
Kids understand language well before they're able to speak it, and so I think he has about two years of backlogged thoughts that he's trying to get out as soon as possible.
There are also kings in the Middle East, and all over Asia and Africa.
I'm sorry to be a wet rag but the comic is simply innacurate.
There are still plenty of kings in the world.
My point exactly.
Perhaps we're just not as interesting as we think. Maybe aliens don't want to contact us for the same reason I don't want to contact kids playing in the park: I'm simply uninterested in whatever they're doing.
There is nothing more speculative than evolutionary psychology.
My family has been doing this for several generations. My race is so ambiguous and I love it because I can jive with so many ethnic groups.
I'm 38 years old and I think I've read a "What We Know About Lucy Is Wrong" article every year.
It's not surprising, of course, because this is the entirety of the fossil. 
What are some of the harmful things that he's attached his name to? I'm out of the loop...
What sort of discussion topics are you interested in?
I was just reading about how, in the middle ages in both Europe and in the Islamic nations, scientists required a patron who would sponsor their lifestyle and their experiments. There were hardly any universities at the time, except for Baghdad's House of Wisdom, and so scientific pursuits were very individual, haphazard and financially dependent on whichever lord or caliphate who found your research interesting enough to pay for it.
What part of this illegal?