There are so many different kinds of parishes. I have friends who go on divestment protests and interfaith conferences and volunteer at needle exchanges with their parishes, and I have other friends who just hear the mustard seed parable every week and maybe once in a while throw red paint on a clinic. I feel like…

Like Robin Thicke, that is a bland white bread product made appetizing only through a liberal sprinkling of higher-quality chocolate.

In addition to running at least one ministry of her own, and I believe homeschooling for religious reasons, she's more politically vocal than Kirk. She even talked once about saying a special prayer every day to thank God for giving us George W. Bush. What.

As a young single woman, I sincerely believe following @DadBoner since nearly the beginning has helped prepare me for my hypothetical future husband's midlife crisis. I appreciate men more because of Karl. How fucked up is that?

No, you can't hide what's called public activity from your friends. Your likes and comments on public pages are exempted from that type of filtering. So even if you block people from seeing your wall, they can still see that you liked a public post if they're listed as one of your friends. There was a lot of…

People like this — like, say, my mother — are the reason I wish we could filter who sees our "likes" and news article comments. Or, you know, opt out of that sharing entirely.

So does this mean fewer Asiana Airlines commercials on CNN in the coming weeks? Or are they going to continue airing them every break? I never know how these things work.

Another #terrific #essay from you, Ron.

People who know about pro football: Has Kerry Washington upgraded or downgraded from her ex Lawrence O'Donnell? (Yes, that Lawrence O'Donnell.)

I have rarely wanted to know the details of someone's upbringing more.

I never get invited out with the girls for cocktails because my size, attire, and lack of makeup make me a poor fit for their bars. THANK YOU JESUS.

Oh god, Ohio forgot it's in the North again. I hate it when this happens.

She was just on "Meet the Press." After her taped interview, a bunch of old dudes and Rachel Maddow debated her comments. Always fun to watch old white guys from "family values" groups explain to Maddow how the female anatomy works. Pretty she's got that down already, boys...

She just made that exact point on "Meet the Press." As she said, personal stories belong to the people involved. Politicizing someone else's history just results in backlash.

My favorite thing about this is that it happened immediately following West's whole "you kids and your social media!" shaming of Rachel Jeantel because she and Trayvon had texted a lot. Yes, if only Rachel had better parents who could have raised her to watch her behavior with her phone.

We'll just say:

Between Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan, that poor woman has invested way too much time dealing with shitty coworkers in the press.

So if it's about someone who thinks they're above others, why not "king"? Why is the female monarch the bad one? Is his defense, "Oh, I'm not a homophobe; I'm just a misogynist!" Huh?

Crazy as it sounds, recent scholarship has revised it up to 7-10%. (My family included!) Though I prefer to think they simply foresaw American reality television and didn't want to subject their descendants.