Yeah... this is some Tumblr-level outrage. The quote wasn’t misattributed to any particular culture, and this was certainly put together by a communications team. If Hillary’s leaked emails are any indication, she doesn’t actually design her own websites and has yet to learn how to print.

In this case, 50th is the best spot to be because it means that state’s percentage of revenue coming from federal aid money is the lowest. So North Dakota is the winner at #50. Granted, Texas is only barely in the bottom half, and if our current state government wasn’t utterly hell bent on taking only federal aid that…

Hold up. As a percentage of Texas’ revenue, the amount of federal aid Texas takes is 32%, ranking Texas at 28th. Mississipi takes the most federal aid as a portion of their state’s revenue at 41%. Remember that Texas has the second largest population, so while Texas might take the most percentage of federal aid given…

How is that Snidely Whiplash level shit even legal?

When I finally twigged that he was not a hallucination, I actually laughed out loud while shelving in the library. But when it came time for the whole bit near the end, I was surprised--I had already forgotten about him and assumed his inclusion was like some of the interludes with gods that weren’t involved in the…

The first time I read the audiobook, I thought Shadow was hallucinating or something. Why else would there be no comment on a name like that?

Pfft, free speech only counts if it’s spoken in English

The problem here is that, unless an insurance company is required by law to cover a specific type of care—be it for checking prostates or ovaries—that company won’t offer a policy that covers it. When insurance companies were not required to cover maternity care, the only policies you could find that did cover…

Like most American dictionaries, the OED is a descriptive dictionary. Its sole purpose is to tell you how real people use a word in real life. Unlike most other dictionaries, the OED is also an extremely detailed etymological dictionary and extensively demonstrates the origins of words, making it an incredibly…

On the day of the 50th anniversary episode premiere, the OED’s word of the day was TARDIS.

My favorite is when people say that Islam is a religion of hate while spittle forms in the corner of their mouths and they turn red from apoplexy.

No, dude, are you nuts? Leave them here on the planet whose environment they’ve significantly damaged.

Yeah, “Mother of All Bombs” seems like a backronym.

Well, clearly the answer is for everybody to open carry, especially children in schools, because one of those nine-year-olds could have stopped the shooter if they had been armed.

Don’t be the older son in the Prodigal Son parable. What you’re describing is one of the most told and celebrated narratives in Christianity: God sends you a trial to change your heart. It’s the format of at least a half dozen stories in the Bible and of dozens of saints. Once someone has come to see that they were…

Pfft, I’m a librarian, and it was all I could do not to bombard you with links and references. For the record, a VPN could also turn around and sell your browsing history, so we’re all at the mercy of companys’ privacy policies.

Your browser history is local, meaning it’s on your tablet. When you delete it, you’re deleting that local information. Your ISP also has a record of the sites you’ve been to, and that record is not on your tablet, so even if you’re dilligent about deleting your browser history, you’re not able to affect the ISP’s…

If I had been left alone in a room with Hitler, I would not have killed him. I would look at the situation in Germany the same way we look at the situation in Syria right now, not knowing what effects killing Hitler would have, not knowing whether his death could stop the Wehrmacht. And probably, like the rest of the…

It’s definitely an older study, because it was at least ten years old around 2001.

Yes! This study! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who remembers it. My dad vehemently opposed sending me to an all girl’s high school because my male peers would suffer for it and also I’d come out a lesbian. He wanted me to attend the more expensive co-ed school across town (about 80 minutes to get to school during…