There were actually two different actions. One would amend the Book of Order to redefine marriage as between two people, and that has a year to get ratified by the presbyteries before it goes into effect. The other was an Authoritative Interpretation that allows PCUSA pastors to officiate at same sex weddings in…

Another coffeemaker that walks the line is the Bodum Bistro b.over. Gizmodo tested it not too long ago and summarily crowned as their favorite, even after a direct comparison with a Bonavita. I had a chance to test out the Bistro myself (and mentioned some of my thoughts in this post on at-home coffee gear) for an…

Alternate post title: Coach K Has the Weirdest Boner Right Now.

Having been on a hiring committee at a small, private, liberal arts school, this is exactly the sort of email that would get a hard "no" because the candidate clearly has no idea what the department needs out of a TT hire. You're being hired primarily to teach, so asking for fewer new preps and a pretenure sabbatical…

A flop followed by a sucker punch, Marcus Smart just proposed to her. Their children won't learn to walk until age 5, and their coffee table will either get broken, foul out, or get called a racist once a week.

Missing Schlafly in St. Louis and Mustang in Mustang, OK.

Reaction to this video in Missouri: "That shirt is worth a teenth, that iPad will get me an ounce, I can hold a lot of meth in that bag..."
Reaction outside Missouri: "I've never seen any group of adult men get that excited over a pair of shoes...oh, wait, it's Missouri. First pair they've had. Now I get it."
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As someone who lost his semis matchup by 1.8 pts to the combination of Justin F'ing Tucker and Jamaal Charles, I hope the rest of the scene was this guy slipping on his floor, hitting the back of his head and losing all memory of the previous thirty seconds.

Worth noting: this woman's church is PCA, not PC(USA), and so not the representative Presbyterian body in this country. One, for example, freely ordains women as pastors and elders, one does not.

Someone can dislike the show, and that can't be wrong. The argument that it follows the structure of the slave narrative that can, and frankly is, though. The characters' backstories aren't told through Piper (i.e., if she were dictating them to Larry). Characters aren't necessarily given importance because of their…

Don't forget that, even when you check in right as the window opens, you're still checking in behind anyone on your same flight who is coming from somewhere else. For instance, this week I flew JAX—HOU—OKC. I check in 24 hours before boarding thre JAX—HOU leg, but got my boarding position for the HOU—OKC leg at the…

It reminds me of the book "It Takes A Worried Man," written by a husband about his wife's battle with breast cancer. I picked it up from the bargain bin while on my honeymoon and read it in one night about a week later. Absolutely crushed me. Fuck cancer.

I remember, once upon a long time ago, when Google had Notebook as an Evernote competitor. Now I have my old Google Notebooks imported into Evernote. Trusting Google is kinda hard right now on something like this.

I would guess the minibar that enables sharing and subscribing to almost any page.

Zotero. Free, works on all systems, works within Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Its comprehensive enough for my own scholarly work and simple enough that the undergrads in my gen ed classes use it as well. I've tried Mendeley and EndNote, and neither does as much as Zotero (not to mention EndNote is spendy).

Mere frequency is one thing, but there's also ease of use. There exists a sort of equation for how words can be formed in English (I've seen it in a book called Word Play, but can't lay hands on the thing right now) and some letters are simply more flexible than others. U may be less common than other vowels, but it…

They split the affiliate with Kirksville, MO. It is the 200th largest (out of 210) TV market in the country. It is terrible. At one point, the Kirksville ABC affiliate (and those are the only two broadcast stations) applied for a waiver from the digital signal upgrade because the cost of upgrading was more than the…

Obviously actors are not the characters they play, nor does playing a character who uses a gun (or many characters for that matter) disqualify them from advocating for gun control. Actors do carry some responsibility for their choices though, and the hypocrisy left to be filled in by the video is not entirely…

This is a much more eloquent way of phrasing my question, which had been, Dafuq?

Calling RT Windows 8 Mobile would imply that the full version is *not* mobile, which is kind of the whole point of a convertible device.