The difference you mention between Scientology and Christianity may be because they came out of different mileiux: Scientology, as I understand it, began as a knowingly moneymaking scheme to invent a religion, so it never had any reason to foster community-oriented activity.  We know a lot less about the origins of…

The difference you mention between Scientology and Christianity may be because they came out of different mileiux: Scientology, as I understand it, began as a knowingly moneymaking scheme to invent a religion, so it never had any reason to foster community-oriented activity.  We know a lot less about the origins of…

Just to add to what someone else said: there is no doubt now that the CIA was involved in the drug trade with the Contras: the CIA Inspector General confirmed it.  The claim doesn't rest on Gary Webb's reporting (which was mostly sound), or on a refusal to believe in coincidence.  But it wasn't, apparently, on the…

Just to add to what someone else said: there is no doubt now that the CIA was involved in the drug trade with the Contras: the CIA Inspector General confirmed it.  The claim doesn't rest on Gary Webb's reporting (which was mostly sound), or on a refusal to believe in coincidence.  But it wasn't, apparently, on the…

Remember, "pedophile" refers to adults who have sex with prepubescent children.  There is no good reason to associate Clash with pedophilia.  (Ignorance or a desire to smear are not good reasons.)

Remember, "pedophile" refers to adults who have sex with prepubescent children.  There is no good reason to associate Clash with pedophilia.  (Ignorance or a desire to smear are not good reasons.)

"de Laclos’ story—a deliciously seductive piece of sexual gamesmanship gone amiss"?  It has been a few years since I read the book, but this seems to me to trivialize what goes on in it.  

"de Laclos’ story—a deliciously seductive piece of sexual gamesmanship gone amiss"?  It has been a few years since I read the book, but this seems to me to trivialize what goes on in it.  

"Women don't understand this, women aren't automatically considered a sexual predator just for being born women."  That has changed since the Ritual Satanic Abuse scandals of the 1980s, when numerous women were convicted and imprisoned for having three-ways with Ronald McDonald and two-year-olds.   A woman friend of…

"Women don't understand this, women aren't automatically considered a sexual predator just for being born women."  That has changed since the Ritual Satanic Abuse scandals of the 1980s, when numerous women were convicted and imprisoned for having three-ways with Ronald McDonald and two-year-olds.   A woman friend of…

Where does it say that the "kid got paid some money?"  I see that a settlement was discussed, but not that it was concluded.  Are you guys seeing what you *want* to see, or am I missing something?

Where does it say that the "kid got paid some money?"  I see that a settlement was discussed, but not that it was concluded.  Are you guys seeing what you *want* to see, or am I missing something?

I don't see.  Neither the NYT article nor the AV club puts events in that order.  Here it says that a settlement was being discussed, and then the accuser recanted.  No mention that he ever will be paid.  Did I miss something?  I often do.  But I'm feeling so creeped out by the discussion under the first AV club…

I don't see.  Neither the NYT article nor the AV club puts events in that order.  Here it says that a settlement was being discussed, and then the accuser recanted.  No mention that he ever will be paid.  Did I miss something?  I often do.  But I'm feeling so creeped out by the discussion under the first AV club…

"The universal language of folk music"?  

"The universal language of folk music"?  

It's actually the conservatives who babble about the subtext: they luv them some commie bashing, while ignoring the capitalist-bashing that is the foundation of the story.

It's actually the conservatives who babble about the subtext: they luv them some commie bashing, while ignoring the capitalist-bashing that is the foundation of the story.

Erm, that's exactly what the politics of Animal Farm are, or is, or do, or whatever.  Most explications of the book overlook what the farmers symbolize — the brutal, corrupt capitalism of the "Free World" — in order to bear down on its criticism of the Soviet Union.  The end of the book is explicit that the pigs have…

Erm, that's exactly what the politics of Animal Farm are, or is, or do, or whatever.  Most explications of the book overlook what the farmers symbolize — the brutal, corrupt capitalism of the "Free World" — in order to bear down on its criticism of the Soviet Union.  The end of the book is explicit that the pigs have…