You a big fan of rape too?

I waited about 3 minutes for my hunting license—they had to scan my ID card and I had to go to a different register to process. THAT was the waiting period.

Jesus Christ, do people really have that much time to devote to mobilizing mass numbers of internet denizens to downvote things and cement political alliances across fora? If people spent that much time and effort calling their legislators, testifying at hearings, or protesting then we might have a slightly different…

Menses is necessary for reproduction, an evolutionary process that for the past tens of thousands of years, has killed 25% of mothers. Reproducing doesn't serve the same purpose as longevity or health. In fact, pregnant mammals are more likely to get killed than non-pregnant mammals.

"I am so colorblind that if you told me I was white, I would believe you."—Stephen Colbert.

East Texas too. East Texas is very strange. The areas that aren't heavily industrialized and populated by people of color usually have a large Klan contingent...it's like someone, many years ago, say in the 1920s and 1930s, decided to put the refineries and petrochemical plants where black folk live while they put…

You have an issue confusing macro-level analysis that takes place over hundreds of years to a micro-level analysis concerning a few years at your place of employment. Furthermore, you don't see a connect between hundreds of years of racism and your treatment.

That sounds like it brought as much joy to you as the Weiner puns newspaper editors compiled during Weinergate.

Even if we're under the assumption that he said "demand" rather than "the man," it still is stupid. The US plus size market is exploding because our waist lines are exploding. The problem is people like O'Leary who think that their coterie of rich and skinny friends are the US norm. When the "skinniest" state of…

Houston has a problem with packs of dogs hunting humans. Lower class people purchase these animals and set them loose in the streets once the novelty wears off, and there have been multiple attacks in the past few years. I've been all over the US and Houston is the only city I've been to that actually resembles…

Let's see how well an 18 year old with no understanding of civics outside of a one-semester class on government does with Robert's Rules of Order and showing up to committee meetings. Ditto on when she's on the floor. I watched as Stickman, a Tea Party freshman here in Texas, got completely demolished and belittled…

You're going to need to teach your kid about good touches and bad touches, or else down the line they will not be able to set up boundaries when they get older. They may not tell adults if they're being molested.

Most of the people who are falsely accused of sexual assault are male. You're either a liar or a very unlucky outlier woman.

Wish I would have known that in high school. I was harassed by my 11th grade Spanish teacher for not saying the pledge in opposition to the Iraq War; he threatened to suspend me. People called me a fool and said the war would be over quickly and freedom would be established in Iraq. I thought it would be a long war.

Are you a Yankee? Because people open the doors for me and give up their seat on a crowded bus in a sprawling Southern metropolis.

I strongly disapprove of giving kids obscure Biblical names unless it's for a historical or religious reason. I've gone over this several times with Mr. Koshka who wants to name the firstborn son "Zebulon." He said our son can go by "Zeb" for short. Mr. Koshka is Jewish but his reason is neither historic or…

People are just pulling names out of their asses and giving them to their kids. There's an entire section in Freakonomics about African-American sounding names and career performance but Latoya and DeShawn sound more normal than "Mackenzie," "Aiden/Braiden/Jayden/Kaiden."

Even more interestingly, "boko" in Hausa has the connotation of trickery, as by a witch.

Being burned alive is a quicker death than dying of AIDS, as it is common in African militant circles to rape virgins to "cure" their AIDS.

I've been to Hearne before and it's pretty heavily segregated even today, divided by a railroad track into the poor and African-American community and the working to middle class whites on the other side. The town itself has a huge issue with the cops framing African-Americans (a movie, American Violet, was made…