Because blaming Title IX for the funding choices that colleges make depends on the belief that women's sports don't deserve equal treatment. Title IX has added significant opportunities for women (and men's participation has increased during its tenure as well), but there is a limited amount of funding for college…

You're right. From reading the article, you can tell that the foie gras is kind of useless, that's why they're passing it out on crackers to people in line. Food banks run into this stuff all the time. When I worked at a food bank, we had a whole collection of things that people had sent that were fairly useless for…

Thanks for asking. It's been really intense. Lots of crying. I'm just trying to focus on business now so that we don't just pass stuff because we're tired. And the twitter trolling is insane. Hope your partner's ok too.

also a minor note, it passed with 71% of the vote! not 79%. Here's a link: http://pres-outlook.org/2014/06/pcusa-…

Yes, by a significant, though declining margin.

Also Presbyterian here at the assembly. The authoritative interpretation which takes effect immediately will allow pastors to perform marriages in places where it is legal. The change to the Directory for Worship, which requires the ratification of the presbyteries, will also allow pastors laboring in places where it…

I would star this a million times. That song is awful for like a million reasons, and I cant believe that radio stations played that domestic abuse anthem.

I'm always happy to dive down an internet wormhole.

I live in Texas. I don't have any experience. But everything I've read seems to imply that statute 46.02 would apply to any sword longer than 6 inches long, and therefore open carry of a machete (assuming the courts found it to be a weapon and not a garden tool or something) would be illegal unless you are on your own…

Since there was someone at the end of the line actively judging you (or, to put a positive spin on it, rooting for you to do better), all of us experienced a bit of mortification. But it really did make you think about what you put on your plate.

One trays all went on to a big conveyor belt by the exit with a narrow walkway out. There was a person standing by with a trash can. You could hand your tray to the hippie to scrape the food off onto the trash can, scrape it off yourself, or you could put it on the belt and the hippie would take it off and scrape the…

The environmental caucus at my college used to weigh food waste as you were leaving the dining hall. Having a sad hippie judge people for the food they wasted really did cut down on waste. They cut a deal with dining to do it for a semester in exchange for a switch to fair-trade coffee because it saved so much money.

OMG I don't even come to the mainpage anymore but I will star red panda anything a thousand times.

YES. And what frustrates me is that this shit is going on everywhere. Shitting on Mississippi (or wherever) is a great way to avoid dealing with the real problems in your own community by feeling better than someone else. But oppression isn't limited to red states or rural states or whatever. NYC, one of the most…

I disagree that people are always responsible for their government. Government is dominated by vested interests, corporations, shit journalism, and political fuckery. And many of the states that have shitty repressive laws against gay people also have shitty repressive laws against poor people and minorities (e.g.…

Okay. So you're okay with people saying good things about bad places, as long as they don't say that those places are great.

I'm just not that confident that there are any places that don't have something horrific going on.

I'm not sure I know what you mean. Are you saying that it's not okay to love your hometown? Or to appreciate the natural beauty of a place apart from its political climate? Or that you can't enjoy a cuisine or a culture or a well-designed highway system because their politicians are morons? It seems like you're…

Yeah, the problem is that Skymall really hasn't had anything new in a long time, and a lot of their offerings have become tragically outdated. It's a list of luxury items for people who have been living in a bunker since 2001 (a really strange time to get in the bunker in the first place, which you can bet affects…

This makes the war against radical islam complicated because now that we've baptized them they're Christians.