Well, the point of cookie sales breaks down like this (I was a top cookie seller back in the day):

I don’t think it was a “perplexing clunker,” so much as a silly inflated figure that was meant as a pretty obvious joke number. Should he have said they sold $2.5 million worth, just to make it a bit more obvious?

Why should he have to buy a ton? The point is to encourage entrepreneurial skills (that’s what they told me for all 10 years of being Girl Scout). Selling to one dude, yes, could do that, but not really. It’s about interacting with the public, which is why you see Girl Scouts at your local grocery stores Maximum # of…

The people who are at risk of delivering a child with FAS are probably not going to be able to follow any advice regarding drinking during pregnancy.

As do most people. But it’s not like discussing Beyonce’s video would have caused a massive drop in ratings. If she did it well, it might have even gone viral, because she would have been the only one talking about the video without the main point being about the police being stubborn little babies about it.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one. It made me nervous as hell.

The headline made me think of that Six Feet Under ep where the guy leaned out of his vehicle to get the newspaper lying in the driveway and instead fell out and got his head crushed by his own SUV as it rolled down the driveway.

Yeah, they’re weird little bastards. They can spend 10+ years clopping round the same riding arena, only breaking into a trot under extreme duress, and then one day the wind comes from a slightly different direction, they hear the jungle drums, and they’re over the fence and through the water jump and scraping a…

But what that question is really asking then is “is there no circumstance under which a President is justified in acting? Do you believe that states’ rights outweigh the most horrible suffering of millions of people?” And clearly in this case for them it does. So I think it is actually valid at assessing the morality…

Also common among these people is the belief that slavery would have “ended naturally” and so as you say, it’s not so much that they necessarily want slavery back, but they just disagree with the way the end came about.

Eh. I mean, you’re right, that likely would be many voters’ reasoning for why they answered the way they did. And maybe this is me lacking “nuance,” but...

I love that gif! When I was little and in bible class one of the teachers said in Heaven we would be praising God 24-7 and it “Will be just like church!” I blurted out “But thats soo Boring! I thought Heaven was supposed to be a reward?!” My dad laughed and decided maybe church wasn’t for us.

Every time I hear more of these grim statistics, I become more convinced that culture change (rather than legal battles) is the best way to preserve our access to reproductive care. Coming out was unthinkable until people started coming out. Those of us who have had abortions must begin to talk more, more openly, and…

My brother dated a woman who was severely addicted. When she checked into the ER after a seizure, the doctor saw she had a prescription and his first question was, “How long have you been snorting your Adderall?” Scott may have been doing the same.

This is why I get icky feelings when we make fun of celebrities continuously and ruthlessly, which I’m guilty of myself - I mean I’ve definitely made fun of him. But they’re all real people and just as complex as any non-famous person, and we only know about their lives whatever they choose to reveal (or I guess what…

Do you think that it was news to people living in American Samoa that being an American territory sucked ass? Or to megachurches that being tax-exempt is fucking boss? Or to high school kids that sex ed that is not comprehensive is neither helpful nor a hindrance to STIs? Or that FIFA is corrupt? His topics are always…

God also said to help the poor, didn’t he? There was a huge contingent of Catholic socialists and union organizers in the US for that reason.

I think the abortion insanity is just a huge red herring planted by the Republican party to distract working-class people so they won’t notice they are being crushed to death economically because they are too busy worrying about all the murdered babies.

As someone who works in the abortion field, I am SO appreciative of this segment. John has done more to sum up what is going on in a digestible 16 minute clip than I could ever do. When you’re in the field you can obviously talk for HOURS about any topic, because you have a lot of knowledge, but also because you see…

I remember when abortion became legal and the first PP clinics that provided abortions. There were no picketers, there was just a collective sigh of relief across political, religious and societal lines that women could stop dying from clothes hanger abortions.