Amen. And not just in Biblical times. Until the Industrial Revolution, most people in the West were surviving by bare margins on farms where everyone — men, women, and children — worked from sunup to sundown on whatever tasks were necessary to keep them alive. The entire concept of middle-class women vacuuming in…

I wish. Alas, when they do find wedded bless, they tend to have umpity-billion kids because taking birth control is like eating out of Satan's candy bowl or something. Then they baptize all the kids in the same brand of crazy.

I would love to have a Buddhist president. Get on it!

Oh yeah, arguing is bread and butter to a lot of people of every stripe/denomination/color/creed. Atheists can be equally aggressive and very condescending, which I think reflects badly on all of us and results in people lashing out sometimes. I think this survey was the one that made me aware of the relative…

Yeah, I don't think anyone's really going to threaten her with violence, 100% agreed.

Three words for you: Westboro Baptist Church. Those guys already blame gays for the collapse of America. Now you have an avowed atheist continuing to reject God even after her blasphemy caused a massive tornado?!

I couldn't tell for sure but I thought that was the case. :) I really did get scared, though!

Ah. Thank you!

My first reaction was: Damn and tarnation, I've been schooled on a grammar post! Then I went shamefacedly to look up grammar and semantics to make sure I never err again.

You're welcome!

We all do. I just can't tell whether Lonely Island didn't realize it was an error, or whether they deliberately threw that grenade out there so the grammar snobs would pop an artery. If it's the latter...well played, sirs.

You are cruel.

YAY, I MADE A DIFFERENCE!

I think there are two kinds of responses showing up here.

Stop! Grammar time:

I just want a doll that mutters "Beware the grooooooove!"

Wow. Just wow. She looks more like Yzma from "Emperor's New Groove" - as in, scary beyond all reason.

Amen. After learning that Dove and Axe profits fill the same pocketbook, I've given up hope of any large company caring about anything but its bottom line.

I kind of get what you're saying, but the point I would make is this: the "writers and designers" aren't doing anything, because I don't honestly think those two groups are working as a cohesive unit here. The writers made a character who hates getting dressed up; the designers want to dress her up. So far, Disney…

Right? She rolls her eyes at the handsomest bachelor in town, repeatedly. She talks to a giant beast like he's a petulant child. She defends her horse from a wolf pack with a branch. A branch! And the way you know that the Beast is in love with her is that he gives her a library.