Sure! Mary was the Immaculate Conception. The idea is that if she was going to be the mother of God then she could not not have been born with original sin. Since God is 100% good then God can only come from someone who is 100% good. The Church declared her to be conceived "without sin" and so she herself is the…

I am so sick of this being covered as "news." I have no idea how or why this woman became pregnant and it's none of my damn business. Assuming that it was a consensual encounter that resulted in a child, who gives a shit? She's not the first nun in recorded history to become pregnant and she won't be the last. And…

My heart goes out to her. I can't imagine how frightened and embarrassed she must be with the judgement of the world on her. I hope she can get the support she needs right now to raise her baby. I hope they're both going to be ok.

As far as I can tell from reading other news sources, she may have gotten pregnant on a visit home to El Salvador. If I read one more joke about "the immaculate conception" from people who do not understand what that means I will scream.

I'm in NM. descansos everywhere.

I just posted something similar. Are you in the southwest too?

Simcha, I feel your pain. But nobody is saying your grief is not valid. His death shocked the community and lots of people, including children, wanted to pay respects this way. If you grieve differently that's okay too. There are so many ways to grieve. My sister and I look at pictures and videos of my son and I…

It's haunted by the ghost of coldwar jelly past.

Once in high school a friend of mine yelled, "THERE'S SUBWAY!" from the passenger seat. The driver was so excited by the proclamation that he yanked the wheel toward the sandwich shop. They hit the side of a pickup. Luckily no one was hurt and there was only minimal damage to the vehicles. I don't think it ever…

You're right that he was right to check if she attended MIT under another name. But that still doesn't make outing her right. Her outing wasn't needed to make the case that she had committed fraud.

I've also seen mouldering flowers, melted, blurred photographs and moldy stuffed animals tied to poles and wondered why they remained long enough to deteriorate to that point. It makes the tribute so much more depressing when its gone to seed.

Hopefully you are in a small enough town that those greedy fucks are appropriately ostracized for their actions.

If it's a really old house, the only thing the cellar was used for was coal and potatoes. I'm not sure the ghosts of coal and potatoes are all that frightening.

The product still worked, and her investors still stood behind her. The fact that Hannan ended his story by calling a trans woman a "troubled man" says more about him that it does about her.

Ah yes, I also grew up with a basement lit only by bare lightbulbs you had to turn on by pulling on a string. The basement itself wasn't scary with the lights on, but it was vast, and when I had to go down by myself I always made a game of running through and turning the lights off as fast as possible, then bolting up…

The thing that bothers me about people trying to make nigga the ubiquitous and innocuous version of "this guy" is that non-blacks could easily use their own group's racial/ethnic slurs. Why ride black people's reclamation bandwagon when you could create your own. She could have said, "this guy", which is exactly what…

Oh for fuck's sake. Madonna is white. She has white privilege. While her family may not have owned slaves, all white people (including my own white Italian working class ass) benefit from the unearned advantages afforded to white people in our society.
Thus, it is not appropriate as a white person to use a word that…

So many celebrities on Twitter/social media need the guidance of the cat in this meme:

I had a brief fling with a ghost, too! He ended it, though. He said he was "going through some things right now" and then walked through several walls.

The anniversary of my dad's death is coming up, and you asked for stories of "slight hauntings," so I think I'll share this story again: