This is why I try to be vocally atheist, albeit as gently as possible. I think it is important to represent, so religious people can't rest comfortably on the idea that we're sitting home eating babies while they're doing god's work.

I did not know that. It explains a lot. Thank you.

I can be smug and condescending, depending on the level of crazy a religious person takes their belief to. I try to keep my opinion to myself, mostly.

As an atheist, I think it would be unfortunate if one of my kids married a religious person. There are too many other things to argue about in marriage, without having a fundamental disagreement on this level hanging over things. Also, it would just annoy me to have to accommodate what I consider lunacy at family get…

These quotes are nice to get, just on general principle. Clever!

Rabbits: Nope.

I like it. Seems like they're making lemonade out of a lack of acceptance in male-run garages. I would absolutely appreciate the opportunity to avoid condescension regarding car repairs—which I happen to understand pretty darn well, thank you very much. Now all they need is a liquor license.

Jeepers, when you put them all together like that, he is damn smooth for a big fella....

I am a slightly pre-Title IX mom, with not much experience (or desire for it) in team sports (avid cyclist, though). I coached my boys' soccer team one year, middlingly well. I found that the male coaches were able to shout cogent instructions in a flash, while I was still attempting to formulate a sentence that made…

We know that Republicans can only empathize with something when it happens to someone they know: Of course, the people they know have to feel safe enough to speak their truth, first.

Yeah...being literally high with a VFR pilot on an IFR day is more of a sphincter tightener than getting too chemically high on the ground. I'll take bored for hours over terrified anytime.

If you can afford it, why the hell not? If nothing else, you don't have to shave your legs when you're sporting a ball gown.

Good point. I think the difference is that ladies know the standard-issue attractive guys can be perfectly delightful (if you don't happen to have one at home), and don't generally see them as defective in the face of the statistical anomaly that is a hardbody specimen. (All four of those guys are hot in their own…

I remember when that WIRED article came out, it was fascinating. Arthur C. Clarke's book <em>How the World was One</em> was my next read after that.

I agree, people are good and kind to each other every day. But the population wouldn't be approaching 9 billion if half those people had more bodily autonomy/access to education/importance, and fewer people would not detract from the kindnesses.

This is what happens when intelligent young people don't have meaningful work.
Idle hands are the....

I am finding myself strongly in favor of switching the paradigm and having the men wear all the makeup. And beards. Together. I'm cool with going neatly barefaced in return, I'd hold up my end.

My experience is that french women will shamelessly eat fudge topping, from the jar, all of it, and then ask if we can go to the store for more, and maybe can I ship some later. I aspire to that, I just can't handle the smoking.

I've had a blast at Disneyland with my husband, it can be done. Plan on a school day that is not a holiday anywhere within driving distance, preferably a slightly rainy day (not gonna happen in SoCal any time soon). We did annual passes for the family one year; not even our kids like it that much. Lesson learned.

Ugh, so much stuff.