"Our society is a punitive culture. We are curative, not preventative."

It seems like what you really cannot comprehend is the story.

Good, I say. I've felt for a long time that we, as a society, are too quick to condemn and distance ourselves from people with pedophile inclinations. They can't help the sexual wiring of their brains any more than the rest of us. How horrifying must it be to realize you have this aspect of yourself that is…

Then maybe you shouldn't have contributed anything.

I always ask the question with this question: What's the pay range for the position? Then I peg myself where I feel I fit in that range based on the job requirements and my relevant experience with something like "Based on the description, and my extensive experience in blah, I would think I should be in the top 20%…

God, if your child can't handle seeing the cover of GQ, you probably can't even let them watch TV. Or use the internet. Or give them a cell phone. Or let them have friends. Or go out in public at all.

if you are embarrassed to read something out loud to your parents at the dinner table then you shouldn't be reading it.

Assuming she blindly follows her faith demeans her intelligence. And based on her article, she seems quite thoughtful about her faith and affiliation with the Mormon Church.

Maybe in some abstract interpretation it's not inherently anti-woman only, but come on, everywhere the anti-sex-before-marriage is used, it's really used to stigmatize women as whores and temptresses, while the men are only guilty of giving in to temptation. Of course you know this.

Difficult as it is to believe, religion is important to many people's lives. And for many people, they would rather take up the daunting task of redirecting that dribbly steamship than simply jumping overboard.

These women and men would ask that you respect their self-chosen identity and not paper it over. Please and thank you.

Well, vegetables ARE a liberal conspiracy, you know.

"since their home had been broken into and there's no TV. Sounds like there's some other crime going on in North Augusta that the police should look into."

Lock your kids inside the house so they can sit on their asses and get diabeetus.

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, Vogue was her public hit list and Madonna has been killing off everyone on it, slowly and methodically.

The changes in GLBT culture over the last 50 years has been enormous. Each generation made staggering leaps. Current gay kids probably can not even wrap their head around what it was like for previous generations.

There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys. Guns aren't for black people, either.

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black. In my experience, no place embodies this division more than St. Louis, where I've lived the past few years. You can drive north from a…

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

Excellent piece Greg...wow.