Whether or not this woman is a hypocrite is immaterial now. Even if she had been pure in faith, deed, and intention from the moment of her birth, her actions now are designed not only to get her out of performing her sworn duty, but anyone else in government who feels that signing a legal document for any LGBT person…

It’s now clear that this woman is either an idiot dupe of the Liberty Counsel, or a willing sacrifice. Sending her to jail would be satisfying in a lot of ways, but it will send the right wing commentariat into a frenzy over “religious persecution”.

I live in Portland, and I walk to wherever I go when I can’t bike. I spend most of my time avoiding poop of one variety or another. There is no one Portland Pooper. They are Legion.

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I’ve said this elsewhere: I don’t believe this is just one woman being a bigot. Her endgame is not that she personally is excused from providing marriage licenses. This is a long-term strategy, backed by well-funded anti-gay organizations, to keep throwing appeals against the courts until they either A) get a court…

Outsports calls bullshit on that:

There was a profile of Tripp in the New Yorker in 1998* that showed how much contempt she held for the Clintons. She hated Bill for womanizing (Tripp’s father had cheated on her mother) but she seemed to despise Hillary for her independence and lack of ladylike sensibilities. She compared Hillary unfavorably to…

I stopped taking any article or broadcast that gave her a voice seriously long ago, when I heard her assert that belly dancing was developed to promote fertility by stimulating the dancer’s ovaries. I can get a theory that it was developed to promote childbirth by stimulating boners in spectators, but the ovary thing…

I think some judges might give community service as an alternative if there is lack of ability to pay? I’m just speculating, though. As others have said, fines are a revenue source in many communities, so incentive is low to find alternatives for poors.

A lot of gospel choral music does this to me, even though I’m very firmly non-religious. I always figured that was by design, all the big, big harmonies reverberating all over the place to move congregations to an ecstatic state. That’s why I’m always puzzled by the utter blandness of mega-church-style “Christian…

This post deserves more stars. I never look very deep into who to vote for in school board elections, as I have no children, but this will serve as a good yardstick in the future.

I didn’t find the remainder of the game boring because Japan Never Gives Up. I was chewing my fingernails with worry that they might catch us up until Heath’s goal, and even then i wasn't comfortable.

I haven’t had rye for years and years, I’ll have to give it a try based on your rec. The bourbon showed up in my house as a contribution to a small cocktail party, and it was a bit winner. These Boozinette recipes are helping me build my personal bar!

I’m drinking this NOW. I used Angel’s Envy bourbon and turbinado sugar for the syrup. Super smooth. Thanks for the recipe!

Imhofe: “This was a bad decision!”

Dear Mr. Benoit: We aren’t gonna take away your ball, dude. Go watch your man sports while crushing the souls of your hopefully non-existent daughters and let the rest of us enjoy a thing.

I don’t know how much the NWSL coaches make, but i’m going to guess that your average NCAA head coaching position pays better, with more job security, and there are a lot more NCAA schools with competitive women’s soccer programs than there are NWSL teams competing to hire that talent. Unfortunately.

I was at the match. Betos was the single bright light on the Thorns side— the lack of our star players really showed. 95 minutes of garbage play from the rest of the team, including passes to nowhere and no one, a lot of confusion, and one really disgraceful red card offense, but Betos made save after save like a true…

I remember starting to read Children Of A Lesser God years and years ago, and thinking, wait, people just spontaneously stopped having kids? How is that a bad thing? Why is everyone loosing their shit? This makes no sense!

Further research shows that FoxSoccer2Go WILL have matches. I may need to sign up for a month or two.