I know right? Mormonism: More obviously made up than all the other ones.

But is this really true in practice? Everything I've ever heard about excommunication is that it is functionally being shunned by the community.

Yes, my inner copy editor was going nuts.

Kind of sad that this happens so infrequently that it's noteworthy, but I always appreciate when someone can acknowledge a mistake or misunderstanding as clearly and simply as this. good work.

Yeah, but what about all those women who make up rape accusations just so they can get free rape kit on the government's dime?

I have to agree. If Sandy Hook wasn't enough to create change, I think nothing will. Not Isla Vista, not ten more like it.

My thoughts exactly. I hope that PR team has "credible-sounding celebrity apologies" listed as one of their specialties, because this is, indeed, a good one.

I hear you and I can see why you would reject the idea that feminism requires "buy in" from men to be valid or actionable. I think I'm just saying that I would find the world a better place to live in if we moved beyond the popular misconception of feminism as "privileges for ladies at the expense of men." (Which I…

This is great.

My very first thought.

I agree, and I think you touch on a point that delivery matters. If only we could all tell our embarrassing stories as hilariously as Lindy.

Same here! I try to "out" myself as soon as possible, to the point that even as something humiliating is happening to me, I try to imagine how I will tell the story later, and even that mental exercise takes the sting out of it a little. If I hold on to a shameful memory, it festers. If I tell someone about the time I…

George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin have an "ironclad prenup," because DUH

I love kid logic.

Sometimes I still don't do a good job tasting things. I'm going to start owning up to it.

If that doesn't get you laid, I don't know what will!

I am dying over here. Maybe Eugene Debs would have had more traction if he'd run on the buttsex platform.