Is there a story here, or just a headline? I'm not being snarky. I literally only see a headline and comments that seem to be referencing an article that you wrote, but I don't see the actual article. :(

I always wonder that. I was researching charities two weekends ago, and then my mother had a dental emergency, and I had to pay over $2000 toward that. Needless to say, It will be a couple months before I can give to a charity.

But giving to a church is really giving money to support a favored hobby, so that doesn't count.

I was going to say, the above chart seems to show that the movies I grew up desperately loving (Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, Sleeping Beauty) did not make as much from marketing their princesses as many of the others. And that might have something to do with the fact that when I was a kid, the princesses were not…

So what you are telling me, if I understand you correctly, is that Kermit is a name for people, and not just muppets?

And let's say you go through with it, and you get counseling, and you make peace with it (big ifs). Why would this guy expect a jury to believe that a woman felt threatened enough to justify using deadly force, when he makes it clear that he does not believe what women tell him about their experiences?

When I go to bed after my husband is already asleep, sometimes I stupidly recall the final shot of Paranormal Activity and then I have to "accidentally" bump into my husband and wake him up so he can comfort me.

I honestly think it is time to stop allowing minors to be on reality television. Why is that legal?

I am a pale person who lives in California and has lived in the South, the Northeast and the Midwest. By far the place I was most often made fun of for not having a tan was the Midwest. I think they call it "Climate Overcompensation Syndrome." http://www.theonion.com/articles/woman…

Once my sister found my dad's ex-lax chocolates and split the entire package with a neighbor kid. Nothing actually happened to them. They didn't even get diarrhea. But that is the closest thing to drugged candy I've ever heard of in real life, and it did not happen at Halloween, it wasn't intentional, and the…

Our neighborhood was full of child molesters, so we always went to the rich neighborhoods for safety. My mom's friend was a social worker, and part of her job included helping sex offenders relocate when they got out of prison. I'm pretty sure she was breaking the rules of her job by telling my mom about all of…

People have short memories, and seem to forget that we are in a much much better place than we were 8 years ago. And, the Democratic Party is run by cowards who refuse to stand up and be proud of their accomplishments. Republicans are like CBS: you may not like what they have to offer, but they will push it and push…

I just don't get the Koch brothers. They're all going to be dead in a few years, so why do they spend their money buying elections? Do they have some sort of life extension plans? How full of hate do you have to be to spend that much money to fuck things up for people after you are dead?

Oh yes, I totally understood that. :) I was critiquing the article's use of the word, not yours.

Calling deism another word for creationism is a fundamental misunderstanding of the word "deism."

That last bit also seemed to claim that deism and creationism are the same thing, when they are not remotely the same thing.

So, I read the PNAS paper, and:

That is the opposite problem. Our problem is that we're all gonna live. ;)

"Even a world-wide one-child policy like China's, implemented over the coming century, or catastrophic mortality events like global conflict or a disease pandemic, would still likely result in 5-10 billion people by 2100."

"They think all Muslims, all one BILLION of them on this Earth, believe that violent misogyny and killing those who do not believe in Islam."