I think this party was in poor taste, but I’ll confess that if the article linked to a video of Miley belting out Havah Nagilah, I might give it a listen just to hear if she did it as good as Harry Bellafonte.

Surely we can all agree that this band is going to have the emptiest gazes of all:

I think a person who can look for the best in people, even when they hold views you don’t agree with has the best chance of marital success. My wife has some seriously contrary views on some topics, but it doesn’t mean our relationship needs to end. We are loyal to eachother, have compatible personalities, and things…

Ah, the hypocritical show-offy kind. I like the humble, non-hypocritical ones who do what their bible says ever when it’s inconvenient for them. i can respect that kind.

Curious: You couldn’t deal because he was hypocritical for having premarital sex, or because he’d take a few minutes on his knees to thank his deity for whatever it is religious people pray about...?

The silliness of the questions political candidates get asked, and the putrid, pus-filled abyss of stupidity that often characterizes their answers made me think for a second that Chris Christie wanted THIS family on his currency.

I wouldn’t work there for twenty million dollars and the gate to heaven.

Do you have a link to the article? It sounds really interesting.

I’m dismissing this comment only because I don't want to derail the thread. Everything you say is spot-on, though.

If this was in a paper you wrote, I’d love to read it.

I don’t think the irony is defeated, even though what you say is true.

I will stick my neck out and say that it *is* inevitable that even with proper oversight, evil, abusive thugs will worm their way into organizations and will proceed to act out their pathological desires. My jaw drops when people suggest that the innocent person’s presence was the problematic factor, and THEIR removal…

I’ll admit, that’s really the rub, isn’t it? How do you staff an organization of people whose job is to kill people to further the aims of a nation-state, and keep out the people who are inherently violent? I suppose you can’t really leave it up to the honor system. You need a crap-ton of oversight and discipline to…

It’s one of the world’s great ironies that a woman in the military is more likely to be raped by her commander than an enemy combatant. And it’s funny, in the blackest, most twisted gallows-humor sense of the word “funny”, that a lot of people hear about this, scratch their hollow pates, node sagely and say: “Well,…

I know you’ve already got my click, but if you could post an addendum stating which guys are most adept at cunnilingus, I’d appreciate it. You know these ladies didn’t come here to see bald men.

The founder, who is a British domestic abuse survivor who wishes to remain anonymous, told the BBC that she never meant for the campaign to go viral, or for women to post selfies with black dots on their hands.

Abusers are often paranoid and controlling as hell. No way one of them wouldn’t notice that dot!

That was the most wrongheaded aspect of it.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Considering it’s really rare for her to be in a picture where she isn’t sticking her tongue out, I’m surprised I didn’t notice it before now either.