I tried to write to the Secretary of the Army to protest this ruling, but there is no direct way to contact him, that I could find. The only email address I could find was this one: usarmy.pentagon.hqda-dcs-g-1.mbx.icomplaints-helpdesk@mail.mil   If anyone has a better one, please post! If they get a flood of…

I looked at the report, too, and it’s full of contradictions. They claim that the sleeping bag was on some noisy material, and that this would have made it too risky for the cadet to commit an assault, but they also claim that both parties were trying to be quiet, and that this also proves there was no assault. So, if…

But the SC decided to uphold Indiana’s law requiring cremation or burial for miscarriages. Here’s the original creepy text of the law. (Note the grammar mistakes, including a glorious reference to “a pregnant who had an abortion.” Freudian slip?) http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2016/bills/house/1337#digest-heading

Not all incels who have killed are white. I’m pointing this out not to say “notallwhites!” but just to point out that it’s an even larger problem.

There was what I consider a proto-Incel attack just off the UC Berkeley campus in 1990. The man shot 8 or 9 people (accounts differ), one of whom died, held 33 students hostage, and committed sexual assaults. He was obviously mentally deranged, but he also had a lot in common with the Isla Vista guy, wanting to …

I heard on a recent podcast that the reason Roe was decided on privacy grounds was because there wasn’t enough precedence linking women’s rights to the equal protection clause to make it practical to argue it that way. Is that true?

You can see in the indictment document (pp. 18-20) that she and her hubby were aware. And more details are in this story—a guidance counselor at a daughter’s high school questioned the application, and LL worried about that. It’s clear from all these details that she knew; I don’t know how she thinks she’s going to…

Yet another example to give when people argue that capitalist companies never discriminate or treat employees unfairly, because it’s bad for business. A lot of these women were the top salespeople at their stores, and they were treated like crap anyway. 

Speaking of names... “Doodles”?!!

The US ended up approving the resolution, but only after it was “watered down” to remove the language specifying reproductive healthcare. The acting ambassador to the UN right now is Jonathan Cohen; here’s his page (contact link at the bottom) if you want to yell at him. https://usun.state.gov/leadership/8485

I never heard that one before--I’ll be helping to spread it around, like a virus. 

Yes, the left is sure conspiring to hold this movie back.

Came here to post this same thing; I’m glad you got it up earlier. That’s such a terrible and terrifying thing, and it doesn’t seem to be very well-known in the rest of the world. 

There’s an interesting theory that says people’s moral categories contribute to irrational beliefs like this. When you get someone whose moral foundation is the combo of “liberty” and “purity,” you can get an anti-vaxxer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory

Are Richard Spencer’s weird spellings just dumb, or are “Nortre” and “sieze” some kind of new dog-whistle joke? I can never tell anymore.

I think that part is all about their personal pride. I never understood why evangelicals are against sex education until I read a quote in this fascinating but horrifying book. An evangelical woman was asked why she supports abstinence-only education even though it doesn’t work, and she responded with something like,…

As you point out, it’s a religious belief, which the government has no business promoting. The anti-abortion movement is based on one interpretation of Christian dogma: it’s all about “souls,” not “life.” But not every religion teaches that there is such a thing as a soul, or that souls enter the body at the moment of…

According to the Boston Globe, it looks like she knew about the fake crew thing, and someone from her dad’s company filled out her college application. This scandal is nothing compared to a lot of other stuff in the news now, but it’s not like she’s a complete victim. She must have known she was cheating, but didn’t…

@waFFles THIS! I just yesterday glanced at the preview for the dopey book, “He’s Just Not That Into You,” and it’s all about how women shouldn’t ask men out—it’s wrong to deprive him of “the thrill of the hunt,” and he will hate you for it. Plus, if he doesn’t demand you go out with him, he doesn’t really like you.…