The foster care system has some really fucked up places. I remember reading in the Houston Chronicle about foster places that took on like 35 kids, and then were mean to them so that they would be rated as mentally/developmentally disabled (which nets a higher payoff from the government), and basically kept kids…

That's concerning. There's a real possibility that this apology will soon begin sucking other apologies into its orbit, creating an apology black hole that will eventually lead to a devastating apologisplosion, where Ann Coulter proclaims that she's "sorry she's not sorry that you people are overreacting to her…

As a Southerner, I've always considered myself pretty good at apology jiujitsu ("I'm so sorry you feel that way"), but Nugent's apology is a masterpiece of insincerity. He does not apologize to the victim, he makes that clear. And he does not apologize for his own actions, but "on behalf of better men" than himself…

I'm not an expert in this either, but a couple of things. First of all, Baldwin doesn't seem to be asking what the appropriate language is here. He's using hate speech while bragging about his desire to listen and understand the community. It's pretty direct evidence that he hasn't listened or read anything about…

A friend of mine once sent me cardboard disposable "go green" coasters. Not ironically.

Austin has this really weird relationship with itself where it celebrates its weirdness (It's the original Keep ______ Weird campaign), but everyone also mocks it while pretending they aren't a part of it. The chief's comment is sort of a weird variation on that. As a political move, it's brilliant. It diminutizes the…

Yeah, the problem is that its basically an entire ecosystem of bacteria that you're trying to replace.

Carl! What a lovable scamp! And seriously this sounds like one of those PUA travelogues where the author brags about how easy it is to bang women in third-world countries. Ugh.

That's the issue. If the white coach hadn't just levelled a bunch of race-baited criticisms at his black players, it would be less relevant.

It should probably be called the Rapist Protection Act

It's actually performance art ironically commenting on the state of modern feminism.

this isn't really a problem since we've abolished the court system because Jesus says that we should settle out of court with our accusers before we arrive in front of the judge. (Matthew 5:25)

That's my point. Pretty much every incarnation of Christianity that has ever existed adopts Paul's writings as Scripture. To be a Christian in the modern era (or any other so far) is to follow Jesus as interpreted by Paul. To make a distinction between Paul's writings and Christianity is to deliberately misunderstand…

Hey, that's a big mouthful of bad theology. Paul's letters are canon. They are just as much a part of the Bible as any other books, and pretty much no Christians reject Paul's writings because Jesus didn't say them.

Or they just didn't have the photo-editing capability to change it.

This is the Biblical viewpoint.

I'm not sure that the segmentation of the health beauty aisle is about selling more deodorant by dividing on gender lines(if women are buying men's deodorant or vice versa, splitting that market doesn't increase sales) so much as its about teaching men the body insecurity women have had for generations to sell other…

The problem is that the current political climate has caused cuts to some of the most effective anti-poverty programs the country has. And private charities, who have stepped up over and over again as our public safety nets have disintegrated, are simply out of their league to solve all of the country's problems.