The seven continents are pretty arbitrary. Europe and Asia are one continuous landmass, but we split them into two continents based on some mountain range?

Only in small doses.

There are numerous references throughout the bible to God's hatred of the free exercise clause.

"The only actual words of God in the Bible are the ones that are in red letters."

The relevant point here is that the conservative biblical conception of marriage is morally abhorrent and cannot serve as any kind of reliable guide to modern-day public policy.

No worries, I was being completely sarcastic.

On the other hand, "Wolfram Alpha" would make a great baby name!

There are companies out there who sell longstanding, well-connected social network accounts. It's a valuable commodity.

Yeah, if you're outsourcing your moral judgement to the MPAA, I think that says something about your values too.

They don't discriminate in the workplace… except when it comes to benefits for same-sex partners.

P.S. How the hell do I heart/follow you? Jezebel's new comment system really sucks donkey balls (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Are you suggesting that there exist articles on the Interwebs that aren't cross-posted to reddit?

The tragedy is that people who finally discover their partner is an ass are the ones who have to deal with their ex-partner being an ass in divorce court.

Good luck! I have to kind of laugh though that the business "has built itself largely on the strength of its appeal to men not to be suckers." There's nothing more appealing to suckers than the chance to beat the suckers and not be one of them. (Speaking from experience, maybe.)

Ahem. New CEO of Yahoo. Larry Page is still the CEO of Google. (Incidentally, they also dated for a while while both at Google.)

But don't women typically have smaller armpits than men? Plus they are much less likely to have b.o., since they don't sweat, they glisten. And how many different genders get their own forms of deodorant? I'd be very surprised if it were more than two.

I think if you read some of uscareme's more recent comments in this thread you'll find a different attitude and an informed perspective.

Yeah, when one partner focuses on career and the other on family, it's essentially the couple making a joint investment in one partner's future career success, and as with other more tangible forms of investment, it should be divided up like shared property would be.

I'm not sure fairness has much to do with it. Is it fair for any particular child to live on pb&j or worse while another lives off steak? It's not like they had any choice in who to pick as parents. I know you're not saying it explicitly, but I do think there could be an implication there that a kid who grew up…

I don't think that's quite fair. Being close to someone for a long time changes the way we see that person. (My mental pictures of my parents are probably a decade or two behind their real ages because that's how I've seen them most of my life and how they look in my memories.) Plus there's the fact that aging changes…