Not surprised at all that CNN didn’t take her off the desk for the rest of the day just because her brain stopped working for a bit. Otherwise they’d have to fire Don Lemon.

I’m beginning to think Lucas just made shit up about Star Wars on the fly when talking to folks at parties, without thinking more than 2 seconds about it.

Question: has “thirsty” officially jumped the shark?

Seriously. Came here to say this. When was the last time David Spade had anything relevant to say?

Um, maybe you’re the thirsty one David Spade. Nobody gives any sort of fuck what you think about basically anything.

Which is noteworthy considering that the History Channel doesn’t score too high on the accuracy meter most times:

Adam Driver can act. He also had a much better director and screenplay to work with

I mean, nuns are basically best known for beating children with rulers, so it doesn’t surprise me that they would be abusive in other ways as well.

My paternal grandmother was a very religious Catholic, and when she came to the US, her three children all went to Catholic school in Chicago. I do not know what happened behind those walls, but it’s responsible for all three lapsing out of Catholicism and insisting they spend their high school years in secular…

I was raised Catholic and am now an atheist. Every now and again when I’m really depressed, I think for a minute about finding a local social justice-oriented congregation nearby because the ritual, etc. is actually very soothing to me but then I remember how much the Church hates women and I’m like NOPE and go on a…

Force of habit.

Oh, I’ve got one for you.

Yeah, that’s the one element missing from the story. It was common until recently for Catholic families with enough daughters to assign one of them for life as a nun. It was seen by many as some kind of obligation to the Church. Or, if something happened to ruin her “chances” like rape or unwed motherhood, or some…

Yep, that’s the sort of stuff I was thinking of, as well as the garden variety nuns who beat the crap out of students. George Carlin joked a lot about the nuns but it was clear that they were somewhat sadistic.

My mom and uncle went to Catholic school in the 50s. My uncle had an unfortunate situation with an abusive nun that involved a ruler.

One year when he was in grade school he would come home each day and throw up. My grandma would ask him why but he wouldn’t tell her. She ended up finding out from the mother of one of…

I went to a Catholic university and was required to take two religious studies classes. One was called American Catholic Experience. It covered some pretty awful things nuns did.

It constantly amazes me how Catholics, especially women, go back for abuse time and again. As a former Catholic and Catholic School survivor, I can tell you those blue haired bitches I dealt with were as nasty and abusive as they come. And so I left the church. Why the hell are you still there? You think it’s only a…

I blame The Book of Job. It teaches that even if you are good and righteous, if the God you love tortures you, kills your family, and makes you suffer unbearably, that you still have to love and obey him. It sets the example for nuns and priests, not only in the idea that those beneath you must obey completely, but…

You know first hand of the abusive system the Catholic organization established, the disrespect of women, the lies and corruption throughout…yet you still send your kids to catholic school? I really don’t understand religious people.

I think a lot of problems your mother faced were products of the time, plus it seems hers was a more cloistered order.