I hope he covers why not a single writer in the 1st century said a single damn word about this "beloved and controversial young revolutionary" until decades after his supposed death, or for that matter why Jesus' life, trial, and death didn't even get a single letter of ink in a single Roman or Jewish contemporary…

Racesplaining, whitesplaining, splaining, it works for me.

Hopefully not many, because this is the letter I got from my Senator, James Risch, after I wrote to him to encourage him to vote for VAWA:

This reeked of PUA techniques. There's a happy middle ground between hitting on anything with a penis and passively sitting at home waiting for a MAA-YANNN to drop out of the sky like the Playboy Bunny fell onto that kid's bed at the end of "Animal House."

I truly suspect they try because that's what they think will win votes from their constituents. I wrote my congresspeople about VAWA and abortion rights last month. I got a snailmail letter yesterday from one of them talking about how he didn't want to vote for VAWA because he felt it was an example of the gubmint…

If her dad ended up helping pay for the therapy, I saw that show. It put tears in my eyes that she could come to him and he'd understand and do whatever he had to do to help his little princess have a healthy marriage. I think they were Muslim, which kind of blew my mind.

Way to totally ignore reality and callously dismiss the experiences of millions of women. Women are STILL fighting for that choice. It must be nice to be so uber-principled and so superior to everybody else and to live in such a wonderful egalitarian and fair society as you clearly do. For the rest of us, being…

Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. I wish there were words for how much I despise that insufferable, pinched-faced, beady-eyed, drowned rat of a man-child. Finding out he's dishonest just makes things worse. You can borrow some of my disgust if you want. I've got plenty to spare! (Disclaimer: I almost…

I was always kind of blah on Mila Kunis, but that comment won me over.

It's shocking to me that you have such a great need to feel persecuted, like YOU'RE the innocent widdle victim here, that you're making up such a ludicrous and easily-debunked strawman to fight. Nobody's ever said anybody's required to show respect to a repressive faith system like Islam, Judaism, or Christianity, and…

Why, you just start with AA and BB names, like bead catalogs do. Kid #27 is Aardley, #28 is Bbarack, etc.

I'm not a parent but this made me think of my sister, who has two kids. We ourselves were born into poverty so we didn't get a lot of candy growing up, and she even surprised me on occasion by ordering vegetarian entrees at restaurants (like going to a BBQ all-you-can-eat place and getting the baked potato bar, and I…

Is this seriously what we've come to in our efforts as a culture to avoid effectively teaching men to stop sexually assaulting people? "PEE ON THEM! THAT'LL DO IT!"

Why are you worried about looking like a douche? It's your body and your potential life we're talking about. If I were still able to reproduce, you can absolutely bet I'd be asking those sorts of questions all up my OBGYN's chain of command. You need to know *now* if your doctor, pharmacy, and potential hospital…

I lived there like 20 years ago, which is apparently before the hipsters took over. I loved it—great bookstores, a thriving and diverse music scene, awesome festivals, quirky little shops and exquisite restaurants, amazing parks and greenspaces (does the Itty Bitty Park still exist?). I loved the Japanese gardens and…

When a person talks about "proper" dress, it's like a codeword for "the way *I* think things should be." "Not really" burkas? Oh, so just a LITTLE like a burka. Oh, that's much better.

... except you "look forward" to seeing someone get tortured forever and ever and ever for finite crimes. As refreshing as it is to see a Christian readily admit to the barbarity, depravity, perversity, and brutality of her religion, it's just deeply disturbing to me that anybody'd think that's a god worthy of…

Sometimes you run across a talking point or bumper-sticker saying that some fundie preacher or right-wing talkshow host said that just totally caught on. "No no, it's not a religion, it's a RELATIONSHIP," etc. "How dare you be intolerant of my intolerance" is just one of a long line of ridiculous, irrational bullshit…

When I began comparing forced pregnancy to forced organ donation, I had no idea Republicans would hear me and decide to make that idea a plank in the forced-birth agenda.

Are we banning moobs, too? Probably not, since it's female sexuality that's being judged, hence why breastfeeding moms are totes fine—moms are the anti-sexy, apparently (disclaimer: I'm no lactivist, but holy fuck that proposed law's exception list sends a clear message that this childfree woman doesn't like at all).…