I love how this is Obama's fault and he's stalling. It's not your reps in Congress, it's not like you should be contacting them and holding their tails over some coals-nope, it's that durned Obama. Everyone's favourite disappointing boyfriend. He had such potential but dammit, he's just not what you thought he would…

So because he hasn't revered decades and decades of anti-gay legislation in 4 years, he's a homophobe now? Give me a break. They called Obama everything but a child of God over DADT and then when he did get it done, they still said he was a bigot because he took too long. I am so sick and tired of gay activists…

I posted this on my Facebook as well, but it bears repeating:

95% confidence intervals =/= prove. Previous study on children =/= prove!

I can only speak for my state's law. But, it's not a blood alcohol level or anything they look at. The DA has to prove that the victim was intoxicated past the point of consent. So, like if both parties have 5 drinks in 3 hours, but one person is more laughing, and one person is almost passed out, person A would be…

"How many times are we going to have to argue that victims of sexual assault do not invite their own rapes by consuming alcoholic beverages? How many times will be have to be dumbfounded by the clearly misogynistic logic that "getting too drunk" = "an open invitation to be raped or harassed"

SUNY Maritime only has science degrees - engineering degrees and various extremely specific marine-related bachelors of science. I hypothesize that if you looked only that set of degrees from any school, it'd look better than a degree in journalism.

Isn't this going to mean that the plebes will have to wait in line longer than they did before? It's not like the airport where you're just going into one space so it doesn't matter if First Class gets a shorter line. There are a limited number of seats on these rides, so if there are 10 VIPs, they get on first rather…

I would love to share this article, as it addresses a critical issue that could destroy Israel from the inside. But you have a glaring error that undermines the accuracy.

I'm not surprised. The FBI is none too fond of Anonymous in general, but now that they've taken vigilantism to this kind of level, the feds are going to want to nip it in the bud clearly and publicly ASAP before others start to get the idea that they can get away with this with no repurcusions. And while I'm largely…

Re: "In a country that would prefer women to be covered from ankle to neck?": Islam is not a monolith; different cultures and different states interpret its requirements differently. Punch "Jakarta crowd" into Google images, and you get things like this, from the "Jakarta Food Festival" (here and here):

I just want to make a quick distinction about Indonesia—while it has more Muslims than any other country, and 90% of the population is Muslim, it isn't technically an "Islamic country" in terms of law or official religion (with the exception of Aceh in Sumatra). There are Christians and Hindus in Indonesia that are…

I don't know what you think Indonesia is, but it does not prefer women covered 'ankle to neck' - this is a conservative place but not Burkhastan.

Also this is another piece of pretty bad interpretation of the research from Jezebel. The quote said most interventions were effective. Some weren't effective. The average is quite low.

Don't ever try to speak rationally about weight issues on Jezebel. Jezebel hates anyone who is not overweight.

Still, it seems everyone have to blame mothers for the poor dietary choices of entire nations? Surely the enormous corporate entities that create cheap, highly-processed, salt-blasted near-food are responsible for making their products irresistibly convenient and inexpensive deserve lot more credit in studies like…

When can we start using the C word and the T word, synonyms for vagina?

Yes, but post X-files she's mostly done independent films (Last King of Scotland, Tristiam Shandy), BBC miniseries (Bleak House, Great Expectations) and a number of plays so if you didn't know of her from her X-files days it's not unusual that you wouldn't have heard of her - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_A……

The Black Liberation Army.

"The number of cases in women under 50 diagnosed with breast cancer is increasing slowly but, thanks to research, awareness and improved care, more women than ever before are surviving the disease."