Well... ok, but I still think that lyric in Billionaire: “It’s been a few months that I’ve been single so you can call me Travie Claus minus the Ho Ho!” is hilarious.

“It’s also phenomenal that the intellectual escapism around race in America is such that a white woman can see that video, write a post longing for the good old days when blacks didn’t have civil rights, and then honestly think she can claim not to be racist. “

Which episode is this from? Is it the one where Q shows up and tries to hit on Janeway? I want it to be.

“...trade the fetus to the fishmonger (who probably molests them, I don’t know, who cares?)...“

I’ve read that’s a Gothard thing, actually. He prefers women have curly hair, so most Quiverfull women have curly hair.

Wait, I don’t know what’s going on here. It sounds like you are saying that this unknown woman is NOT Liv Tyler? Because I’m pretty sure this is Liv Tyler.

It might not be the same thing, but I know that Muslim women who “jazz up” their religious garb - throwing in modern styles, etc - tend to get pushback from fundie Muslims wherever they are. The accusation is something along the lines of not really obeying the spirit of hijab, which is about not calling attention to…

Well... language evolves, and I’d say posts like this DO separate words like “cunt” from their original meaning.

“Ours will be a simple life. I will teach Malia how to milk a cow, cook ugali (a porridge) and prepare mursik (a sour milk) like any other Kalenjin woman,” he said.

If you know how to do these things, do them yer damn self.

GOD IS PUNISHING US FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE CONSERVATIVES HAD IT RIGHT ALL ALONG OMG

This post does not contradict the viewpoint that ISIS can be considered an expression of Islam. I mean, it’s not the Islam *I* ever knew, and not the Islam the vast vast majority of Muslims adhere to, but the “But it’s not Islam” argument is starting to wear pretty thin.

Hey, would you mind linking a few of the Gulf news articles talking about Captagon? English or Arabic language, though English would be easier for me.

I can find Western English-language sources for this topic, but the Gulf news sources are harder for me to find/access, and I read too slowly in Arabic to do an…

Agreed on AJE. Although - when you try to visit that site, do you get redirected to AJ America? Even my bookmarked AJE page redirects, and then I have to specifically seek out the link to AJE from the AJ America page. Really annoying. But after the first few months of AJ America, I went back to AJE. I couldn’t put my…

Yeah, I only met the one. But that’s probably because I pretty much don’t hang out with other witchy types anymore. I still love browsing in new age stores and I *see* those types. Sometimes they’re behind the counter. They mansplain the shit out of everything too - I had a thought a while ago that a lot of these men…

They were nasty, as it turns out. Dunno about her so much, but her husband... *shudder.* He was in his 50s, and he actually came onto my 18-year-old self at one point when we were alone in the store. His line, I shit you not, was: “When the witch is away, the magus will play.” Even at that age I was more embarrassed…

Thanks. I still sort of practice, in that I usually mark the full moon with some kind of moment of contemplation or prayer and physical symbol (my favorite is carrying a stone around for a few days and fiddling with it, then throwing it off a bridge on the full moon with a prayer). Not much in the way of full-on…

I was on the other end of your experience. I was actually in a coven when that movie came out, and we all hung out at the local witchy store and I remember lots of vewy sewious discussions about the wrong impressions people would get about witchcraft. Our brows furrowed in anxiety and disapproval when wide-eyed young…

When I went home to visit my family once a couple years ago, forgetting how much of a “Jersey diner” family they are, my father was driving me around and asked where I wanted to go for lunch. I asked him about the new Persian restaurant I’d heard had opened up nearby, and started going on about the deliciousness of…

Write your congressional representatives, is my suggestion. But I agree - Articles like this do not emphasize that course of action. It bugs me when we only emphasize individual action we can take with individual employees. Is the point to make the customer feel good about herself walking out the door after leaving a…

The ST is not even close to being the most outspoken opponent to restrictive abortion laws. They get attention for their POV because they’re the ST. But anyone convinced that their involvement confirms that abortion is evil is looking to be convinced.