The really horrifying thing is that someone who could do this is almost certainly doing what most of us do every day to some extent - we view ourselves as the virtuous protagonist of our own rich internal life. "Monsters" of any sort are probably not any different. In other words, he may actually believe what he…

And Pope Pius XII said that there was no conflict with evolution back in 1950, in terms of the evolution of the human form, as long as Catholics believe that God creates human souls.

Traditionally, the "author" is also supposed to actually write the book. That may not be the case here.

Some Libertarian-leaning folks have a certain view of the private contract between the employer (business owner) and employee. And that view has more than little of the stench of the 19th Century around it. You can see it in some of the ridiculous ahistorical screeds from people like Andrew Napolitano.

Actually, based on what we're hearing, a 17-year-old Biel might've been a little old for him. Ick.

Slacks, four pockets counting the rear ones, which are usable because the jacket covers them. Jacket? Five. Vest, three. Didn't count the shirt pocket.

Geez, if Star Trek Phase II had happened, this guy would have been a series regular instead of just a one-off in the first movie.

Glad to see them doing this. Restaurants should be required to offer sick days as a public health measure - according to the CDC, a high percentage of all outbreaks of food-borne diseases are caused by noroviruses, and an 2011 survey found that 12% of food workers had worked while vomiting or suffering from diarrhea…

When we go out, I'm basically a walking handbag. It started when my wife and I were dating, heading out to something formal and she realized that she had zero usable pockets, and I had no fewer than twelve.

Kids' books can be equally horrifying in retrospect. Even the early 1960's supposedly-less-racist edition of the first "Doctor Dolittle" book - sold until the late 80's - is pretty damn racist. Like constantly associating the African kingdom he's visiting with cannibalism. Or Prince Bumpo (great name) wanting to…

They've got such a tin ear over this I halfway expect their attempt to fix it to be a super-creepy, inappropriate set of Power Girl pajamas.

"They" is, in common usage, a gender-neutral, singular pronoun at this point. There's almost no doubt that it will be considered "standard English" in the not-to-distant future.

The reason that occurred, as opposed to something like "ze", or constantly using "he/she" or "she/he" or "s/he" or any of the other attempts…

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I'll pass, thanks. Reddit is grotesque.

Yeah, I guess I don't really find someone sexually attractive unless I know something about their personality. There's honestly no amount of beauty that could get me past someone having the personality of a bridge troll. Then again, when I look at the people I've dated, they're all very, very different. And in each…

As a married guy of 45, who's wife just turned 40 - we've been together for 20 years, I can tell you that under no circumstances is my ideal partner today in her 20s. I don't think I could actually stand it. The lack of shared experience and a common frame of reference, and some of the cultural differences would…

Loving the elimination of any sign of "spinsters" or "confirmed bachelors". Hilarious.

There's little or no ramifications for technology service providers or manufacturers failing to do a good job other than damage to their reputations, and they all kind of suck, so there's little incentive. The license and customer agreements pretty much insure you can't sue them over this, at least not easily. Add…

Right, which is why a properly-worded law would pass 1st Amendment muster. The fact that the law is overly broad in a way that violates the 1st Amendment - and it's the only law that they convicted the guy under - is why it was overturned.

That's the way it works - when there's a constitutional challenge, they can't…

The problem is that the law banned any public photography without consent if there was an intent to provide sexual gratification for yourself or another (and how do you prove that?). So you'd better not take a picture of a balloon guy in the park. Because it might be for a balloon fetish site. After all, the poor guy…