I've read accounts of this case and others that said other jewelery was allowed.

It doesn't say no jewelry, it says no crosses. Other stories I've read about these cases state that other employees were allowed to wear necklaces. It was the overt display of the religious symbol they were differing with.

Imagine for a moment if this was Madonna. She's doing a concert at a stadium owned by Christians. They say, fine, she can wear just about anything she likes, even jewelery, but she can't wear a crucifix. That would be disrespectful.

Hmmm...

Sounds awesome to me. Cheap dates, too. The next step would be to get the legal right to marry our beloved objects. Should be easy given the Republican rationale that if we allow gay marriage we have to allow everything else.

Meh, that seems like attack ads in political campaigns. It's a bad idea all around because you are insulting the beliefs and popular icons of the people you are trying to woo. If you are trying to get Republicans to vote for Democrats, you really aren't going to get anywhere by telling them that Republicans are…

I think the blonde wig will really help get Kim's porn career back on track.

You have to admit though they aren't doing a great PR job. The tone of most articles really leans hard on the whole cutting humans down to size, with mandatory mention of how we used to ignorantly think we were better than animals. I kinda think after all these generations since Darwin we've gotten the point.

It seems like foster kids could bypass a lot of that. You could have dozens of foster kids in your lifetime, just not all at once. This seems like a Christian ideal devoid of charity; it's so glaringly obvious that I can't see how they can even make the claim this is religious.

Now, you seriously don't want me to take that and run with it...

Even wars between caucasian people were "racial". Nowadays we don't think in terms of poles and swedes and germans the way they did, as being a different kind of people simply because they were of a different culture. Nations basically WERE races in the way they thought about race. I can't see how he could be…

I choose to hear this read instead by Ben Casey, smalltalk before he tells me I married my orphaned twin and I'm dying of kopfgeschlagen. It's less depressing this way.

I wish this was a recording of an interview. It would have been awesome to hear him say it with the emphasis intact. Instead I'll just imagine the Dowager Countess from Downton Abby saying it across the dinner table.

Yeah, like that. No one reports the 80%, they focus on the 99%. I'm not saying that we shouldn't understand our relationships with other species completely, but it would be nice occasionally to be reminded how awesomely advanced I am.

Not in your heart, mind, or anywhere else, Dolly, if your plastic surgeon has anything to say about it...

I've read several things that said we also share 99% of our genes with mice. I can understand the importance of understanding what we share with other species, but if we were trying to explain what makes humans human to an alien species, we'd emphasize what makes us different, right?

I guess it bothers me that these kinds of studies find their way into the public consciousness, and it becomes an environment of blame. People are made to wonder what they did wrong, and other people are given added worry or hope based upon how they fit into the hypotheses. I'm not saying they shouldn't do the…

This honestly makes a lot of sense, just from a Pavlovian standpoint. Take a test, humilation, take a test, humilation, eventually anyone would want to stop taking tests.

How does this fit with silicon valley having such a high occurrence of autism and Asperger's? This doesn't seem to fit with the people I know. Are they saying this environmental cause can effect kids two or three generations down the road?

I think a tendency to want to stop other people from doing harm is no different than the propensity to do harm ourselves. Claiming one reaction lessens the chances of the other isn't taking the reasons for both into consideration. It leaves the hypocrisy factor out.