I can't imagine that it would be legal or that there would be a minister or justice of the peace willing to officiate such a marriage...but then again I couldn't imagine that a 35-year old man would be cool fucking his own daughter... or that he would have a girlfriend who was also down with him fucking his teenage…

I'd give this more stars if I could. Paterno is one of the smaller pieces in a very large case, and it's sad that people are madder at him than they are at any of the other people who committed and abetted crimes.

THIS IS ADORABLE. Every single time a pop star goes on sesame street my desire to have children gets a little bit stronger.

No. But the virgin birth is an essential part of a certain type of American fundamentalism, developed in the 20th century, that has usurped most of American Christianity's political will. For modern American fundamentalism, to reject any of its tenets (even minor ones) is to reject all of them as well as the Bible. So…

There's a very wide variance among things that are sold by Amazon, sold by someone else and logistics are done by Amazon, and sold and shipped by third-party sellers through Amazon. The trick is to pay attention to who will actually be shipping the item. Items sold by Amazon usually ship very quickly (depending on…

Not to mention the fact that they post "resumes" of their pundits that consist purely of what teams they played on and no broadcasting/journalism experience whatsoever.

In the pictures Spiderman is drawn to emphasize his power (massive quads, rippling muscles along his back, terrified faces of his enemies in the shot). Spiderwoman is drawn to emphasize her sex appeal. In spite of the exact same pose, she has no muscular definition, she doesn't wear a mask to show her face, her hair…

What I can't get over is that this guy hired a team of people and THIS was the best that they could come up with. They just inserted a mediocre slideshow into the plot of a shitty reality TV show pilot. I'm wondering if they just had the set left over from something else and convinced the beau to do an interview so…

I would like to have a conversation with the person who thought it would be romantic to propose in front of a ton of people AT CHURCH.

As I understand it it's totally legal to ask ppl about their marital status, age, etc, but they aren't allowed to treat people preferentially based on any of those factors. Most companies avoid mentioning them to avoid the potential for lawsuits, but I don't think it's actually illegal to ask someone about age,…

It's either God or Christopher Paolini, and I like to have words with both for what they'd allowed to happen in the worlds they created.

THE MAN HAD SOMETHING TO SAY. TOTALLY WORTH IT.

Or as if Jerusalem was sacked three times within a hundred years of the events, its population decimated, and records destroyed.

I think of that as common knowledge, because of course Pascha is the koine Greek word for Easter, but if you're looking for ancient sources, you'd have Melito of Sardis' Homily, Peri Pascha, in which he defends the tradition of celebrating Easter on Passover itself, Origen's treatise (also titled Peri Pascha), in…

Easter was known in the first couple centuries of Christianity as Pascha, from the Greek for Passover. So no, the connection with passover was not a coincidence.

Am I the only one who constantly mixes up Oscar de la Renta with Oscar de la Hoya?

Was it a bad move to start with the hardest logic puzzle(s)? I mean, in a regular series how are you going to maintain the level of difficulty/intensity over the course of the series?

I had to have that explained to me too, don't worry about it.

Macaulay Culkin?

That's certainly part of the problem. People live in suburbs because big highways and city zoning laws make suburbs some of the most pleasant places to live. If we invested more in public transportation and pedestrian friendly areas, and less into 10-lane highways, people would live in a more environmentally efficient…