My mom is 5'5 and during her year-long vicodin binge she got down to 72 pounds. The doctors at the emergency room said she would be dead within the year if she maintained that weight, which thankfully woke her up.

How do you define "terrorist?" A friend of mine was accused of being a sovereign citizen because he dared to ask the cop that pulled him over for the statute for which he was being arrested. Someone I had met a long time ago was actually charged with terrorism. Why? Because he allegedly planned to send a bunch of…

We have a saying in the South—if someone calls you a pig once, ignore them. If someone calls you a pig twice, still ignore them but take heed of their words. If someone calls you a pig three times, you might as well throw your clothes off and start wallowing in the mud because you're a pig.

Mandaeans, Druze, and Maronite Christians are also guilty of honor killings for their female children dating or attempting to marry outside their religion. It's not something exclusive to Islam.

I'll be straight up—you need an attitude change if you want to get women, son. Treating women as the "other" and like we're space aliens from another planet isn't going to win you any friends outside the internet. Men will think you're a loser, women won't want to be with you because you externalize your low self…

Is my generation a bunch of fucking pussies or something? I listen to songs from before I was born and they're rife with self-pity over not being able to get laid. A lot of hair metal songs from the 80s are about looking at stag mags and never being able to get the girl. I didn't hear about someone who listened to…

I'm loving this primary season. The viciousness is suitable for the Texas GOP that has disenfranchised huge swaths of the state, forced women in the Valley into pulga abortions, etc. It's like their true colors are showing and the civility is out the window.

They're CANNIBALS, not savages. Savages was used by 18th-2oth century colonial-settlers to dehumanize entire groups of indigenous peoples, saying they weren't even human and deserving of a holocaust. My ancestors were forced from their homeland and had to move to the badlands of Texas because they were dead to…

Bet you think all indigenous people are "savages" too.

Wendy is downright normal. When my mom found out I was female she wanted to name me La'Dona, which is a portmanteau of my grandparents' names. My grandmother demurred, saying that it sounded like a ghetto name. (It would have been apropos since, ya know, we're from the ghetto.)

How is being an atheist relevant to their office, and how does it impact their character? Here in Texas we had people try to push to get Joe Straus to not be appointed to House speaker because he wasn't Christian and Texas is a Christian state. Is it moral to try to exclude someone from House speakership because…

Actually, in my state there is a religious test for public office in our state constitution. There also is a prohibition of anyone holding a communist belief for running for public office, and communists can be fired from state employee jobs if their boss has a "reasonable belief" that they may be a communist (became…

Egalitarianism, fascism, the adherents of the system of democracy (which don't have their term because it's considered "the default" in English) are beliefs too. They have nothing to do with deity. A belief is an idea. It doesn't mean that atheism is the opposite of a belief in general. It's like you're setting…

Google what the Sinhalese have done during the 30 year civil war with the LTTE and what they've continued to do after the threat is gone. To call them Sinhalese Buddhist Neo-Nazis is apropos.

There are atheists who are pragmatists. Not all of us are Hitchens. Just like not all Christians are John Hagee, or not all Muslims are Ayatollah Khomeini, etc.

You remind me of my relatives who said, "I don't hate black people, I just don't think they should be in office."

And that's the issue. Adultery is a moral failing, while atheism is just a belief. The thing is, many people consider atheism a spiritual failing and adultery is just meh as long as they ask for their spouse's and/or God's forgiveness, and that's cool. It falls in line with theologian Reinhold Niebuhr's idea that…

This sentence, despite the lack of punctuation and capitalization, is more coherent than the lawmaker's accusations.

Because you "risked your life" doesn't mean liberty = license. Freedom comes with responsibilities, something that people don't get. We should be frightened at the prospect of freedom. It means we have to take responsibility for our actions as autonomous individuals. It means our real actions and real words have…

What an apropos name for a jackass that spouts simplistic maxims like "vote with your wallet!" About as thought provoking as the band whose lyrics you're named after.