As much as it pains me to do it, I have to say in his defence that he was sexually abused as a child. So, not zero chance. That doesn't excuse all of his ass-millinery, though.

Dawkins is like Freud: an old, slightly unhinged dude who helped society a lot by turning a lot of people toward interesting ideas for study and the advancement of humanity.

You can tell by the doo-rag. Gang kids are wearing it on the other end these days.

This is one of those times where I hope I'm wrong and someone else is right.

White baby.

Care to explain this? Sapphic as in hinting at Greek poetry? Or sapphic as in she might be gay?

To be fair, my "worst thing in the world" has morphed from a singular spot, to a list that keeps getting longer.

How was the man in the story assaulted?

Research seems to be showing that deterrents as a whole don't work, that punishment just makes more criminals and that education and honest attempts at rehabilitation (not just lip service to it) are cheaper and give better results.

I'm not even sure what your point is here.

Yeah, before the reply to my other message up top comes along, I was under the impression that you were doing the whole "it's not that bad you shouldn't ever be allowed nice things because prison" thing.

You go to that cell voluntarily for reasonably short periods and get money in exchange.

Free and brave, not thoughtful and industrious.

But that's what a settlement is. The plaintiff settles for a wad of cash instead of the litigation they were after.

The dude dodged a bullet. That movie is being directed by Brett Ratner.

Remember when Geena Davis wasn't awesome?

This man looks like an extra from The Dark Crystal.

I'm so there.

He even gave all the sets and costumes for "Bad" to Yankovic to film the video for "Fat". He thought it was awesome.

To unceremoniously remove from political office... I don't... wha?