It's entirely possible this outcome was intentional.

what fallacy are you talking about? lies are misstatements of fact, hth.

It's a good argument, and I admit I didn't read the dissent (or even the decision, really — I skimmed parts). But: the belief they took before the court was that these methods prevent implantation, which in their religious view is impermissibly abortifacient...right? Does the disagreement simply arise over whether a…

HL believes that emergency contraception prevents implantation specifically, and their religion categorizes this as an impermissible extinguishing of new/potential life.

Sure — but why? Because it's empirically unfounded (as are most religious beliefs)? Or because you don't have the right to force your religion on others, period?

Yeah, I do see the distinction, but I'm not sure how consequential it is in the long run. They could just rephrase and state, "we believe Plan B and IUDs are evil," and so long as the belief is sincere we end up in the same place. Or, they could simply argue that there exists a mere statistical chance, however…

Free Exercise is religion, not speech. And if your anti-Lipitor beliefs are sincerely part of your religion (a prong the court must weigh), then your religious objection to consuming Lipitor should be upheld. Religious beliefs aren't empirically testable as true/false, and therefore cannot be called "lies."

Look, I disagree w/the ruling in Hobby Lobby, but this specific critique:

Would have been better to go with size 888.

Nobody should be chastising strangers at the grocery store. However, there is no need (and really no justification) for society to subsidize consumption of soda.

Watch Midnight in Paris. He is also in a morose vampire movie with Tilda Swinton that is surprisingly good.

I agree that a lot of body parts are culturally sexualized, but am skeptical that there's indeed no "innate" sexualizing effect of displaying, e.g., breasts/butt and (surely will happen one day) vulva/peen. Also, when I talk about culture and fashion becoming porny, I don't just mean that people are showing more…

These are good points which I answer here: http://jezebel.com/is-babs-the-se…

Is Babs the second one? Admittedly that is the one I couldn't place (which is why I qualified comment with: "Most of..."). If you google that dress, though, the camera-flash transparency seems to have been accidental. Also, the dress covers her nipples and most of her butt.

Most of those are deliberately-provocative costumes for stage performances, though. (I am treating everything that Marilyn Manson + Rose McGowan did as a stage performance). These people were not being complimented on their sophisticated, elegant attire while receiving awards from Anna Wintour.

Panic over imagined effects on teen pregnancy rates? Invalid. I have some sympathy, though, for the complaint that popular culture and fashion are becoming vulgar and hypersexualized, and that this dress is a glaring example of that trend.

Maybe Chris Brown could play Gaston.

I'm not asking if your behavior replicated his exactly — just whether you said anything as a dumb teenager that would make you look bigoted if videotaped and aired today. I certainly did. I do think it's normal for kids to find humor in things that are "offensive."

If we videotaped everything you said and did when you were fifteen, would we find nothing racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise offensive?

our society has turned these males into dejected, misogynistic, hateful people. I'd guess you have pity on females who, subjected to the pressures of society, hate themselves, their bodies, and have low self esteem.