It's funny that so many elitist arguments, especially geographic ones, are based on the ecological fallacy.

I may be mistaken, but aren't continents as we know them today roughly defined by plate tectonics? That's what I always thought.

At some point we all need to sit down, have a long talk, and agree as a culture that stating a period of time is not an argument. "It's been 50 years" is not a valid argument, I say to Chris Wallace. "How is this still happening? This is 2013!" is not a valid argument, I say to all of my egalitarian friends (including…

I know a few people who would benefit from sick days for this precise reason. While I'm not on board with the lawmaker's reasoning, with some tweaking of the basic logic and a re-proposal from a more sane person this could be a good thing for people who have dysmenorrhea and related issues.

New state motto:

"FLORIDA! Shoot to kill or pay the penalty!"

"Also don't be black!"

This happened while I was attending UNC Asheville as well. Several women I knew came forward to level claims at the same man around the same time, after finding that they had all been assaulted by him. Individually, those that had approached the school administration said they were told to keep it internal to the…

What I love is that the people who are most famous for hammering a "literal" interpretation of our founding documents have made the biggest logical leaps ever in twisting them to say what we want.

Besides, all "men" are created equal. Women, gays, Muslims, and Socialist Communist Fascist Kenyans obviously aren't "men."…

"If an act is wrong for an individual to do it, then it is wrong for two people to do it or for a whole community to do it."

He's either anti-war (one person killing another is wrong, so one group killing another is also wrong), he's cherry-picking his philosophies to market to a certain audience, or (my favorite) he…

This is the same guy who said sociologists are the primary enemy of the US and whose fans continue to write death threats to Francis Fox Piven because he mentioned her on his show. The literal wording of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are whatever he interprets them as, and I think he knows that.…

A close relative of mine, an ardent Glenn Beck supporter (so much so that she lists Glenn Beck under both "interests" and "activities" on Facebook) once told me I was a revisionist and a radical for suggesting the Columbus narrative that you put forward. Then she went on to rant against people who keep "revising"…

Perhaps one day people will learn that you don't have to identify as a racist in order to be a racist.

These are the people who don't understand that free speech doesn't mean everybody has to tolerate your bullshit opinions. I believe that it would be mainly racists flocking to give Paula Deen outspoken support, just as it was clearly homophobes jumping to support Chick-Fil-A. I wonder, though, whether "free speech" is…

Well, according to science you are clearly wrong and bad and you should feel bad.

But seriously, the by-product of this kind of science often sounds like it's condemning people who find other qualities attractive because they're not genetic übermensch who like all the "right" things. It sounds more like poorly argued…

What gets me even more about these studies is that they want to universalize physical attractiveness like it's something that doesn't vary by culture. A few years back some British researchers used a computer model to produce the ideal attractive woman (for the record, her breasts were massive and her waist was…

His argument boils down to: "If we don't teach teens how to have sex, they won't know how. People got by for thousands of years without being taught about sex and they knew how to have sex anyway."

I agree totally. The same kind of mentality leads to a culture of entitlement that enables all kinds of rape logic.

I always wonder how much of this comes from having a hyper individualist culture. We live in a society which constantly pushes the idea that if you try and work hard then you will succeed. Couple that with its intimately associated friend, hegemonic masculinity, and you seem to have a recipe for entitlement: "I worked…

Once you get to level 6 you get your own girlfriend robot that growls at competition!

Someone should write a book about respecting other people and about living a fulfilling life through refusing to treat attractive others as means to an end. You know, developing good relationships with people that are deep and meaningful, and not basing everything you do on getting as much sex as possible. From what…

Be careful with this one. Look at those empty black eyes. He's either a demon or he's addicted to dark magic (a la Willow in BTVS season 6). Either way he may be bad times.