That's just a circular argument. Why is illegal? Because it's bad. Why is it bad? Because it's child pornography. Why is it child porn? Because it's illegal.

The Civil Rights Act has a judge-created exception strictly limited to actual religious institutions engaged in proselytization and religious instruction. Basically, exemptions are limited to actual churches and religious schools (not merely schools owned by religious entities). I'm not sure why ENDA would need a…

For the record, the other nominees were Quiz Show and Four Weddings and a Funeral, meaning that literally any of the other choices would have been better.

The women's world record is 10.49, not 9.58.

You're right. This does sound more like what I was talking about.

Given the current rates of medical error, I also think having to meet face-to-face with your doctor (and having some obvious electronic confirmation of success) is a good way to ensure your provider is switching the right contraception on/off. It would stink if you thought you were protected, but your doc accidentally…

I see the appeal of a contraceptive implant that can be managed noninvasively, but (as you can see from the comments) I doubt most women want to have the control of their contraception managed from afar by someone else. Wouldn't there be a way to electronically update this using some kind of hardware that transmits…

That's not possible. In virtually every state, families can no longer get TANF benefits for indefinite periods of time. In Georgia, it's limited to 48 months in a lifetime. http://dfcs.dhs.georgia.gov/tanf-eligibili… In Tennessee, it's 60 months in one's lifetime. http://www.tennessee.gov/humanserv/adfa…

That doesn't even make sense: conventional visiting time is between Christmas and New Years. If you're going to use a shitty line, it might as well make sense.

"Misogynist punches bunny" seems like too perfect a headline for arousing the anger of Jezebel.

If you think the criminal justice system is rigged in favor of African-Americans, I'm guessing you're the one who is completely ignorant about the justice system.

A strain of Puritanism that runs through American Catholicism? Please call your high school history teacher up and tell him/her s/he failed.

How is anything in the above picture more racist than what's long been published in The Official Preppy Handbook? http://www.amazon.com/Official-Prepp…

No one has shown that autism and autoimmune disorders are "on the rise" — the reports of autism and autoimmune disease are on the rise, because until very recently most people didn't know what autism or most autoimmune diseases were.

An overt act is not a criminal intent. It's an action, some step in furtherance of a crime. So, if I write in my diary how I'd like to rob a bank and detail how I'd do it, I probably can't be charged with the crime. But if I buy a ski mask and a gun (legally) and stake out the bank to figure out when the guards change…

No, because a main crux of racism is that people are reduced to a single caricature. I look at that picture as a white man and see she's clearly mocking a particular kind of white man. I'm not offended or bothered, in large part because I'm not a WASPy New Englander. That's not a racial caricature because people won't…

See what ends up happening in the wake of the decision. The DHHS regulations say that, for objecting nonprofits, the insurer will pay directly for the contraception without charging the employer. If you work for a for-profit company affected by the decision, it seems likely DHHS will enact a similar rule.

I hope Don Van Vliet's estate sees this and sues.

Not that anything he wrote was sensible or appealing, but if my spouse of 14 years died, I might make some hideously bad decisions too.

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