What I want to know is, why did that idiot judge Ted Stevens put Jeffs on home arrest? One quick look at the history of his insane brother Warren (on whose behalf Lyle has been acting) would flag him as a flight risk. Corrupt, incompetent, or both?

Have you read Prophet’s Prey by Sam Brower? He’s a UT based PI who’s worked on cases against the Jeffs for years. Part of his book does cover the ranch in TX. Also it was made into a documentary of same name came out last year (tho’ I haven’t seen that doc yet).

I read a couple of blogs by walkaways from far right Christian movements, and articles written by people who study these movements. “Wifely Submission/Christian patriarchy” is pretty popular in the conservative evangelical and fundie movements (even promoted in large denominations like Southern Baptist) so her line…

I don’t know - a meth freak (all to common) or some jackass with a grudge - or both - but I personally can’t get past the thought of “What kind of asshole beats up an elder?” WTF??!? I mean, being a lowlife scumbag thief that breaks into anyone’s home and beats them up is low, but beating up an elder or a child is…

Wow. I guess I am a minority now - never in my life have my shaved/waxed/whatevs down there. Hell, I almost never bother to even shave my legs. Then again, I come from an ethnic group that is super light on the body hair, so I have never felt like I had ‘excessive’ hair to deal with.

I don’t know. I can understand him saying “kill yourself” in a moment of anger and pain. I understand because my mother, too, was emotionally troubled. I was the youngest (by 17 years) in my family. My older siblings dealt with more bad behavior from our mother than I did - she wd have fits of throwing herself on a…

My own west coast tribe has sort of a mirror image story to the selkies: a Seal Person marries a human woman. After bringing gifts from her seal family to her father, apparently she is able to become fully seal as after giving gifts to her father she says she will never be able to return again. She dives into the sea,…

Fans of PC Hodgell’s work were annoyed by the cover art her newest publisher, Baen, put on her books. They portrayed the heroine as a busty sex kitten, which she is not. Luckily in the latest book Baen switched cover artists & it is better now.

Wounded Knee was not a battle tho’ - the Lakota band massacred that day were unarmed.

200 Lakota men, women and children were slaughtered at Wounded Knee on Dec. 28, 1890 (How quickly white America forgets!) I wondered if Wounded Knee fits the modern definition of mass shooting, tho’, as it was multiple shooters & they were soldiers.

Our family is nonreligious and we do the ‘fun stuff’ - decorate Easter eggs & hide ‘em for daughter, put up Christmas trees and lights (hey! They are pretty) but our main ‘ holiday’ in winter is Solstice - eat lots of food and celebrate that from there on out, daylight will start getting longer.

Which would be funny considering the beadwork looks like it’s based on a Plains (maybe Lakota) pattern - not Cherokee! But, to most white ‘merkins, all Indianz is Indianz is Indianz - Cherokee, Lakota, Seneca - all the same!

And that last one is something both America & Canada agree on: if only somehow Natives would disappear. They keep hoping and hoping, and dammit we’re still fucking here.

I dunno, there was a horrifying one a few weeks about written by a woman who had clearly put her kid in danger from a creepy pedo. There has been so much horrible crap on xoJane lately it’s time for me to avoid it altogether.

They are the best known, but not the only ones. Recently I saw an article about a 20 year old woman who is in dire need of a heart-lung transplant, could have been avoided if her parents (who belonged to some crackpot splinter group of Mormonism) had let her have surgery to correct a hole in her heart as an infant.…

I have PCOS too! I can never grow a beard - just a few chin hairs. On occasion I can grow a mustache tho’. Those hairs hurt like hell to pluck, so I just shave it

LOL. Truly there is no more oppressed group in the history of North American than middle aged (white university) men.

Indeed.

ugh that horrible Babywise book & the religious tapes that went with it. My religious SIL gave me that. It creeped me the fuck out - I figured it was a bad sign to see someone talking about ‘biblical principals’ in relation to infants - like really, there is nothing in the Bible about infant care!! So I did some…

Some ‘quiverfull’ movement followers believe in fostering and adoption to add to the quiver. Nancy Campbell (kind of a founder of the contemporary Quiverfull movement) has advocated this in the past. I do not know if she still does after her daughter Serene had some international adoptions fail and end in abuse…