The problem is that it's not a matter of "my bigotry is just as valid as your opinion that people should be treated equally", but that there is hard, documented proof that these people hold their anti-gay sentiments as a religious belief. That makes it protected by law, every bit as much as race or gender.

This is one of the things I warned would happen when the gay couple sued that other bakery. Personally, I think the state should very clearly draw the line at whether a business exists as a separate entity.

Believe it or not, but there's a technical reason it's happening now.

I really hope you're kidding.

Um... I take it you've never heard of riot grrrls? Patti Smith? Lunachicks? The Donnas? I take it you're not a big Henry Rollins fan.

I take it you've never heard of Bikini Kill. How about Patti Smith? How about Pussy Riot? Have you seriously never heard of Riot Grrrls?

because of the outrage it triggered in Norway. They really are the pearlclutchers of Scandinavia.

Home Depot / Lowes / Local building supply

How to tell when something is posted on Deadspin instead of io9:

10-sided die is in quotes.

I'm sorry, but anybody who actually does an anal piercing should lose their license. Regardless of what kind of obsessive hygiene the client maintains, there is simply zero chance of that *not* developing an infection.

Also sounds like she skipped her warm-up.

I've noticed a sort of a trend with that sort of thing. In my own community, there was a guy- He ended up getting arrested for kiddie porn, and almost immediately everybody had a story to tell about how he creeped them out or said something inappropriate or hit on them or something.

But it's perfectly acceptable for the Bush twins to be such a drunken mess that they're actually asked to leave the country.

I'm assuming that there's an odds game at work- X% of moms will respond this way, Y% will respond that way...

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. This is exactly what I've been wanting to see.

There's just a general trend of public opinion being harder on Israel than on other countries doing similarly awful stuff.

The idea is that there needs to be a Jewish homeland since Jews have been systematically persecuted for thousands of years.

In my experience, there are never two sides to a story. If there's anything more than the sole objective truth, there are at least a dozen sides, if not hundreds.

I have said it many times before: Those who are entrusted with the public welfare, and then use that power to victimize people, are the only humans lower than child molesters. There is no punishment too severe for that kind of betrayal.

Almost as punk as Quincy ME.