Depends. Can religion save someone from cancer, who knows (although research shows that faith, and mental states generally, can have a powerful effect on medical outcomes). But if the enemy is boredom, drudgery, depression, the fear of death, loneliness, etc., I would argue that religion absolutely can have a positive…

Going to Afghanistan was a perfectly reasonable response. The management was awful.

This. The idea of robbing someone’s grandmother was basically putting your life in your hands.

I’m still sufficiently shocked now, and I think a lot of people still are. Tourism to Turkey and Paris is down, for example. Will we stop being shocked and carry on with our lives? Or will we stop being shocked and stay constantly scared?

I think the London and Madrid bombings did it to me. I realized that 9/11 wasn’t a fluke, and this is something that’s going to keep happening.

France is a secular nation. They ban ALL religious symbols in public schools, not just Muslim ones. Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses are also banned.

There is nothing in the Koran that says you have to wear any special clothing to be a good and observant Muslim. As we’re constantly being told, wearing a head scarf (or whatever) is a choice.

Apparently some xenophobic assholes started shit with a group of women wearing them at a beach and it turned into a fight. So naturally the reaction was to ban women from wearing them not from arresting the douche bags who started the whole thing.

If Muslims wanted to callously inflict their culture, politics, and ideals on other countries they should have had the good sense to invade them in force in the 1800s and systematically dismantled their structures of government and culture while violently exploiting both their natives and their resources, like France…

There has got to be some balance somewhere in the world of freedom of religion and freedom from religion right? This can not be this hard to get right.

Can’t imagine why people just “can’t assimilate” or how the message that “these people hate you and your way of life” resonates so easily with the children of immigrants.

I want to see a bunch of men in wetsuits that cover their heads at the beach. Really highlight the double standard.

Harambe never tried to cover up, and he still got murdered. #conspiracy #neverforget

It’s time....

Probably most of them can’t see their own hypocrisy.

Then I’m dipping up the block and I’m robbing bitches too
up the herring bones and bamboos
I wouldn’t give fuck if you’re pregnant
Give me the baby rings and a #1 MOM pendant
I’m slamming niggaz like Shaquille, shit is real
When it’s time to eat a meal I rob and steal
cause Mom Duke ain’t giving me shit
so for the bread and…

Rofl.

Just like you don’t wear Crips colors or Hells Angels patches if you aren’t a member, the real #1 Grandma isn’t going to take that shit lightly.

Some of the toughest, hardest dudes I know love the hell out of their grandmamas. This guy is going to have a rough time when he gets to jail. Which is good.

I’m literally tearing up at this story and just as I typed that a tear actually dropped on my space bar. Great, a sticky space bar for the rest of the day. Why are we doing this? What kind of world is this when our grammas can’t just go home comfortably and make some dinner and watch tv and then go to bed? What kind…