I have mine memorized because of the military, especially the last four. *Everything* in the military requires your last four. Even now, when I deal with the VA, they ask for my last four. My laundry mark in basic training was the initial of my last name and my last four.  It’s our serial number (you know, when you…

Yeah, in my opinion, the government shouldn’t have anything to do with religion outside of keeping people from discriminating against others because of their religion. (And, no, I don’t think requiring mask or vaccination to enter a business is discrimination, because, while someone might be able to come up with a…

Eh, there are several country music stars who are fairly liberal. Dolly Parton is definitely one. Kacey Musgraves is really liberal and she’s pretty well-accepted by country music and its fans. I don’t know Miranda Lambert’s politics, but she has several songs that lean progressive. Merle Haggard, despite a couple…

Yeah, she was raised Baptist. There aren’t a lot of Catholic churches in small town Oklahoma, but Baptist churches are everywhere. (Also, I looked it up, and she was raised in the Free Will Baptist Church in Checotah, OK.)

The federal government forces states to do things all the time. By withholding money if they won’t. That’s how they made most states enact the 55 mph speed limits back in the day. Just find money that’s connected somehow and say, “Mandate mask wearing in your state or you don’t get this money.” Most states will do it,…

We had a saying in the military: “If it doesn’t say I can’t do it, then I can do it.” It kind of goes hand in hand with, “Easier to ask forgiveness than ask permission.”

My point was that, as far as I know, you have to prove that your religion actually has a policy against things like vaccines in order to get the exemption and no mainstream religion has that (outside of possibly the Catholics and anything that has stem cells in it.) Just believing that God will protect you isn’t…

Yeah, he thinks that about all the crazy people on the right and the racists on any side. Most of the people who believe really bad and/or crazy things are not going to be changed by talking. Consequences are the only things that will get their attention.

I got suspended for a day in high school because I didn’t have either rubella or rubeola (I forget which one) vaccine. My parents weren’t anti-vaxx or anything, it was apparently just an oversight, because I had all my other vaccines. 

Personal beliefs should *never* be a reason to opt out of something like this. As far as religious beliefs go, there are none that go against vaccinations in any mainstream religion. Like, maybe Scientology or Christian Scientists, or any other stupid religion that is against medical intervention, but I don’t think…

I wonder, does that apply to all vaccines or just the covid vaccine? Did he inadvertantly make it illegal to require schools to request proof of rubella, mumps, etc. (I don’t remember what vaccines I got as a kid and I don’t know what they still get) vaccines?

Vaccinated people are a lot less likely to get the virus, though. And, if they don’t have it, they can’t spread it. Also, the more vaccinated people we have, the less likely it will continue to mutate. If people had just got vaccinated as soon as they were eligible, we probably wouldn’t have a delta variant, if we had…

Oh, shut the fuck up. Lots of fat people eat well and exercise. Hell, the subject of this article does a mean fucking workout every time she puts on a concert.

Why can’t people like you just leave other people’s health to them and their doctors? Her health and the health of other fat people is none of your fucking business!

Because fat people should just go naked until they can make themselves skinny again. That should motivate them!

Me and this guy in my unit decided at one point that we were going to buy an old C-5 and repurpose it as a multilevel club and call it The Galaxy. I don’t know where we planned to get the money, but we had the design all planned out.

I have watched the doc, plus another one, and I’ve read Sarah Edmondson’s book and listen to her and her husband’s podcast. Compared to Scientology, your average NXIVM member was a saint. Most of them were victims and most of the victims were just having their money taken for some fake self help (whereas…

You know, I can go with this advice when the negative comments are things like, “Your music sucks.” But, when the comments are fatphobic and racist? That’s a lot harder to blow off. And those people don’t deserve a pass, either.

So, Leah Remini does a podcast (with Mike Rinder) called Scientology: Fair Game. They just did a Q&A last week and before they started, Leah called out someone making a negative comment about them. And she said (I’m paraphrasing,) “I know most of the comments are good, but the bad ones stick out to me and I have…

I am 100% behind her intent, but I take issue with her metaphor. The popular kids were the ones who always treated me like shit. I never envied them because I didn’t want to be that mean, but I did wish that I could blend with them so they would leave me alone. It wasn’t mainly because I was a “nerd” (defined back…