You haven't reached total cognitive short circuit until you've talked with a fundamentalist MD who doesn't believe in evolution. Holy doublethink!

I don't think this headline uses "falsely" correctly.

Back when I was an Ohioan, Miami's rep was: dickish, white, frat-boy date-rapists. That was well before your time, but neither the rape jokes nor the bad spelling surprised me a bit.

Can't find it now, and I hope I'm remembering right, but there's another experiment where they took monkeys raised in captivity and showed them snakes for the first time. The monkeys didn't care, and they played with the snakes. BUT, then they showed the captive monkeys a video of some wild monkeys acting scared, and…

To be fair, people who used to be poor often have a good income, but no wealth. I see your objection, but years or generations of poverty mean that that you can wind up with no assets or savings to lean on if the income goes away. It's that whole rich vs wealthy thing.

I'm old enough to remember the old, old SAT, before they dumbed it down in 1995 so everyone would score higher. On the old, old SAT, 1180 out of 1600 wasn't spectacular, but it was respectable. My scores were pretty bitching when I took it in [year redacted], but on the newer scales they're not.

Hey childless ladies, I totally get that you're pushing back against some crappy cultural norms and a lot of social pressure. But can you do this without being all condescending and kind of sexist towards women with kids? On Jezebel, this kind of thing always turns into, "Thank you very much, but I don't want to be…

I thought it was a good point, actually. The theft comparison isn't with a person who has nothing missing from their house. The better analogy is: Sure your TV is missing, but how do we know you didn't give it away and then change your mind? Sure, you're beat up, but how do we know you didn't agree to have a fist…

I love Wisconsin. But things went to shit there in 2010 when the Kochs zeroed in on us and decided to make us Kansas #2. It's not like the place didn't have real problems (Milwaukee vs. its suburbs has always been very bad and nasty and racist. We have always had some state senators who are like a caricature of a…

Theology nerds, high five! I actually find some Christian doctrines terribly interesting. Like, I both know about the Pelagian heresy, and I can tell you all about how different thinkers avoided it. Calvin fascinates me because his theology is so relentlessly logical - except when it's not.

Thank you, and bless you. And I'm checking out your organization right now.

I'm so sorry that you had to witness that and be made complicit in it, and I'm far beyond grieved and outraged for the woman who gave birth that way. There really aren't words.

No. Sorry. Nobody is being condemned for asking questions or "critical thinking." They are getting called out on the glaring lack of empathy upon which those questions are premised. They are also getting called on some extremely poor reading comprehension.

Wow. Look at all of the reasonable responses to this post. Here I was just going to go with, "Fuck you."

You need to replace "unless" with "even if." http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html

That's why I said it's messed up. You get talking to hyper-Christian Evangelical people, and you realize that the young men especially are really into Calvin. He's hip these days in Evangelicaland and they have latched on especially to the idea of the chosen. But you also realize that the Calvin you learned about in…

Since I know some of these people, I'll give it a go... They really believe that having a baby puts a woman in her proper place. Like, we are supposed to be domestic and domesticated, and motherhood is what does this. It ties us to the home, makes us soft and cuddly and not angry, and makes us realize that we need a…

See, this is where, against my better judgement, I start thinking that vigilante justice isn't such a terrible idea.

Add in teach-to-the-test and evaluations systems created, for profit, by ignorant, not-at-all-bright non-educators, and you've got an absurdist nightmare. I seriously double-dog-dare the testing company CEOs and politicians to pay attention in one of these classrooms for a single day.

" I normally feel empathy"