Yes, and his wife has a virtuous name as well...something like Patience or Prudence, I think.

How can there be a whole aisle for various types of salami???

Depends on the person, not everyone is healthier on a red meat-free diet. Low protein low fat diets suit some people. High protein high fat diets suit others. I wish I was able to be vegetarian, but after 23 years as a strict vegetarian I was incredibly ill and my doctors told to eat red meat or die. I now try to get…

Oof, Godsgift is a heavy cross to bear. It's like naming your kid Romeo.

Ah Queen, a classic! My area=tiny town in Ireland rather than Florida though :)

A lot of people in my area whose parents are Christian and immigrated from sub-Saharan Africa have similarly aspirational names. Mighty, Great, Beauty, Goodluck, Charity, Captain, Promise. No Sir President though, that's awesome.

Is that the Endless? It would be interesting seeing Desire, Death, Destruction, Despair etc in the mind of an 11 year old!

Sorry, I wasn't contradicting you at all, just adding to the questioning of the number of emotions! Six was the number in my undergrad psych textbooks, so I am taking that as indisputable fact :)

According to Ekman, there's six - why no surprise here?

Don't forget, 4 hours sleep per night for a few decades can cause you to piss off the working class, try to crush the unions and dismantle the welfare state.

Have you gone to a sleep lab? Investigated Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder?

Me too! Except I'm on Central European Time, so one hour later than you.

The United States funds Irish organisations campaigning for this crap.

You're right, lots of people around the world did this, lots of religions. It doesn't take away our ability to get outraged at this, though.

I still get goosebumps EVERY TIME I listen to The Magdalene Laundries by Joni Mitchell.

All the good stuff=doing God's work

Not really. There has always been a strong Protestant population in Ireland, mostly Methodist and Church of Ireland. Don't erase them.

There were Protestant homes of that kind too (such as Bethany House), and plenty of women who had been there are finding it hard to get reparations as the focus is on the Catholic ones.

I think she's speaking against slacktivism, the idea that sharing something on facebook or tweeting something changes the world or gets you off the hook from doing good. Raising awareness about stuff that's not widely known is admirable. Raising awareness of breast cancer, for example, is bullshit.

The Jezabels.