This is huge. Really. It's an acknowledgement of the modern world. For all his flaws, this is the first pope we have that seems to have advanced beyond the fifteenth century. Bravo.

You know the best way to avoid shit like this? Don't have guns.

It sounds awesome until you figure in the collateral damage of having your family murdered by extremists that would go bananas at such an image.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if Miss Israel was brave enough to take a stand against the Occupation and become a voice for peace?

Never underestimate to lows to which people will go to justify murder. A Colombian soccer player was killed for accidentally scoring in the teams own goal. So yeah, unfortunately she has to distance herself.

I don't think some of the menfolk would cotton to that too kindly. Fancy faux Southern speak to say: Extremists would be screaming off with her head if she did go home. In fact, I wonder how she is able to participate in this in the first place.

And wouldn't be fantastic if teenagers don't have to think about the geo-political implications of their every little act?

I thought "US News" meant U.S. News & World Report, and I was like, "Wow, that magazine has really gone down in quality!"

And now the first comments anyone will see under this post are part of an insane argument over language rather than a discussion of the fact that IN THE YEAR 2015 A WOMAN IS IN JAIL BECAUSE SHE HAD A MISCARRIAGE.

It took them three hits with the sword, and she was given nothing to dull the pain, such as painkillers. But that sounds really humane! Fuck western racism!!!

For a second, I thought I had already posted to this thread, because you described my mother to an absolute tee. The BPD/BD combo really seems to encourage that delusional self-preservation - the number of times I have brought something up, only to be screamed at that "I never said that!" or "That didn't happen!" is…

Denying things that actually happened is called gaslighting, in case you didn't know, and pretty serious emotional abuse in my opinion.

How do you know my mother??

Whelp, I was going to hang out in my sexy sexy sex pants (stained in not one, but two places with Nutella) and watch season two of The Fall while my daughter is at a sleepover, but I guess I'd better change. Perhaps I can find some non-lustful dungarees somewhere. I mean, it's just me and the dogs here, but you never…

As it is written in Matthew 14:15-21:

Next time just half-ass it and smuggle some Oxycontin to jail in the Book of Mormon.

I'm high on Jesus. Like really high.

Opiate of the masses, indeed!

"it's unlikely that you're going to get a free high just from drinking it."