It’s the 5th Circuit. Texas. Louisiana. These are not the places from which a thinking American citizen necessarily expects the “hallmarks of reasonableness”.

I feel so body-negative that I was thinking, “Hey, pre-baby body, please, heaven!” when I read that. Thank you for being right along my thought path.

Yeah, you’d think that in a place that’s theoretically about eternal bliss, I’d at least get to choose my own form?

Goodness, that is some “50 Shades of Grey” level writing right there.

You’d think with the way religious conservatives think things are going, heaven would be filled with enough aborted fetuses for them to hang out with. I mean, they probably have cliques and stuff, their own drama with their own different groups of friends. Actually, now I kind of want a spin off about the middle…

Mandy and Bobby’s relationship, we learn, is “never the same,” probably because he tried to coerce her into having an abortion!

So....basically a really long, torturous, terribad version of “what about the menz”? Super!

I’m having a physical reaction to this that I can only describe as rage vomiting.

Wait, so Timmy and Tina are still small children when Jason goes to heaven? So, kids in heaven who are aborted do grow up, but they just kinda stop at like, age 8 or something, and just wait for random friends of their parents to come along and play football with them?

Wow. This article was quite a trip. But that dialogue!

I live in Kentucky and I can tell you that a whole lot of opioid dealers here - many of whom are addicts themselves - are the same people who make up Trump’s base and vote straight-ticket Republican these days: poor white people from economically depressed rural areas.

Well, and also the Koch Brothers are pushing their “curriculum materials” on broke schools to try and keep everyone racist and stupid – and they’re providing them for free, since they’ve starved the school budgets so they can’t afford books. Read Michael’s article on it.

It’s so weird, because white business types absolutely LOVE coke and everybody knows it.

Considering when people were publicly hung/decapitated and/or otherwise mutilated for crimes in the public square, there was still a shitload of crime, maybe we should reconsider the idea that death is that great of a deterrent.

This is just another of 45's racist dog whistles to his base. In their minds, “drug dealers” are all black or brown thugs with 14 karat grills who drive big flashy cars and peddle death to sweet, innocent little white kids.

What’s his stance on punishment for treason?

I have several pieces of quartz (see-through rocks!!! Blew my mind as a kid and led to a degree in environmental geology) with visible fluid inclusions — liquid trapped in there from millions of years ago when the crystal was forming. Isn’t that magical enough for you people?

This happens in nature. I find that pretty magical (and I say that as someone with B.S. in Geology).

There is a distressingly high number of WOC and POC who will not be able to comment here because Jez has banned them, without explanation or warning. The entire JezeRoot series is so controversial with the commenters at least in part because so many people will not be able to participate in anything that is posted to…

Just once I wish these stupid new-age/paganish things would really work. I’m a stone cold atheist. But deep down I’d love to find out that there really is a little magic in the universe. Not unexplained science type of magic, but real magic. Alas, no mermaid nor unicorn nor enchanted ring will ever darken my door.