i assumed copious amounts of alcohol and/or drugs would be involved in any of these encounters

yep. or when Bernie supporters will go “well why don’t you do some research and look into his policies, you’ll change your mind”

yes. and criticism of beliefs is not religious discrimination

your last sentence is pretty much exactly how i feel too - you’re more than welcome to believe whatever the fuck you want, but if those beliefs infringe upon the rights of other people, they should not be considered valid enough to trump those rights.

oh yeah nuns are absolutely underappreciated, especially when stories will come out about “Catholic charities in such-and-such place are doing so many things for ____” when really it’s mostly groups of nuns leading the charge.

it really, really sucks when religious leaders are presented with actual science (i.e. that hormonal birth control is not an abortifacent) and choose to go “well, we believe it is, soooooo”

very, very lapsed catholic here - i don’t think the takeaway from “stop condemning homosexuality” should necessarily be “gay men can use condoms but straight couples still can’t, per our Book of Telling Other People What to Do in Their Bedrooms Disguised As Holy Writ”. the Church is anti-sex-for-fun, and since…

yeah going to his games was one of those awesome childhood things i completely took for granted. our Christmas card one year was a picture of my dad, smiling, with his face covered in blood from a relatively minor head injury (elbow to the top of the skull, just split the skin, but heads bleed a lot)

that first scenario is exactly what my dad did - played football in high school and at a DIII school, where he joined their club rugby team because it was a spring season, then played for the NYAC in Westchester while working in NYC for 20+ years. they have an Old Boys team on top of the A & B sides, so he wasn’t…

i know! that’s why i really thought they’d be smart and quit while they were ahead. especially since the episodes are all “Chapter __” and ending on 52 would have been really good

clearly i have no type because i would fuck both andy dalton as well as every iteration of james franco (sans Riff Raff knockoff, probably)

i’m super bummed because they announced a couple weeks ago that there will definitely be a 5th season, which means that this one isn’t going to be the fiery downfall of Frank. which sucks because i really didn’t see how the series could go in a different direction and maintain the level of intrigue/drama/other…

wait are you saying that if an otherwise smart kid had a depressive episode in high school but was doing okay now (through medication, therapy, whatever), they should be denied admission to an academic institution solely because of their mental health issues in the past?

when he was on the phone with his mother and she asked how he was answering the questions and he replied “I guessed...like I do on my homework” it was like a punch to the gut.

my left-handed father was forced to learn how to write with his right hand by his Catholic school teachers, which was weird because such rigid inflexibility based on dumb superstition is just so out of character for organized religion

the longer barreled ones could definitely be used for some additional stimulation...

I could be wrong (and haven’t done any follow-up research), but i’m 99% sure i read on Jez sometime in the last couple years that pediatric doctors in Texas(?) are legally prohibited from asking the parents of their patients if there are guns in the home (along with bike helmets/seatbelts/all the other standard child…

the key to this phrase is emphasizing the “munch”

yes yes yes to all of this. i think she probably HAD lyme (because there are fairly reliable blood tests to confirm the diagnosis) and was treated (antibiotics), but either stopped treatment because she wasn’t immediately feeling better orrrrr (what i think happened) is attributing the ongoing physical symptoms of…

yeah this was my first thought upon reading the headline, and the article definitely backs up that idea. tangentially related - i wonder what the stats are for TV characters that get pregnant and have a dramatic one-episode arc like “should i tell him? should i keep it? oh this is bad but maybe good but also bad” and…