You’d certainly think that, right? Most people who glorify the King James Bible have an answer to that, though: they claim that the KJB was a divinely inspired translation, on par with (or even superior to) the original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic versions. It’s holy in a way that no other English translation can be...…

It’s an old school thing - English used to capitalize all nouns, and a lot of the hard core religious types are deeply into reading things like the King James Bible in their original format.

I remember when an old roommate of mine came back from Afghanistan a few years ago. He was haunted and enraged by this very issue, and his experiences helplessly standing by why his Afghan “allies” assaulted young children eventually led him to become very Islamophobic.

At the risk of dogpiling, I’d like to explain two of the reasons why the mentality you mentioned can actually create significant problems down the road, because I know it’s not always very well spelled out in a culture that takes this sort of thing for granted:

Great news... until that price tag.

I know! Full credit where it’s due: the friend in question quickly defriended the guy and apologized to everybody, saying the guy was a coworker whom he’d never liked that much and was thankful to finally have a reason never to speak to him again.

Exactly! But of course, we’re talking about a) a sex worker, so the value of her life is trivial at best, and b) Texas, where for far too many people life is only valuable if it hasn’t left the womb yet.

That’s exactly what I was thinking about, too - the Texas case a couple of years ago, right? Where the goddamn jury acquitted the guy for killing the sex worker because they believed she was “stealing” from him by refusing to do everything he demanded after he payed her.

Not to be at all snarky about it, it’s a horrifying situation all around but I still feel like she earned it:

My ladyfriend and I, who EVERY WEEK suffer outrageous scorn from our friends for DARING to enjoy Miller High Life and Bud Light, have now officially declared your our personal saint.

My next door neighbors always have their 4 kids running around outside if there’s even a hint of sun in the sky, and one girl around 4 or 5 communicates entirely through high pitched shrieks. This is not hyperbole - I once kept a log and figured out she was shrieking an average of 5 times per minute. Every. Day.

Sting approves.

Sure, and I get that, it is a potential issue. But when you take into account the amount of water a dishwasher saves over the course of its life... as California is showing us, water conservation is a big issue that can’t be ignored.

I’ve been saying this to friends of mine who insist on handwashing for years. Almost all of them are hardcore environmentalists*, and all refuse to believe it.

Yep, Luke pretty clearly put it on the funeral pyre in RotJ.

I've been involved with a married lesbian couple for almost a decade now, and my partner and I have been non-monogamous from the start when we started seeing each other two years ago. During those times, the couple rarely had anything else going on, and my partner and I go through long periods where we don't get…

Broad City is one of the most amazing shows on television right now, period.

Disclaimer: I understand that the anecdote I'm about to offer up is NOT REMOTELY representative of the general population and does nothing to balance any scales in the grand scheme of things.

"Says," "allegations ," "accuses," and "claims" all share the same meaning in this context: nobody's been convicted of anything, so you have to acknowledge that in some way to avoid accusations of libel.