Back when I was dating (or trying to), about 2002-2003, speed dating was actually staggered by age.  I was about 45 and was not allowed in the same speed-dating events as men my age.  I think they were staggered by 5 years or more. 

The Church Universal and Triumphant. Oh, wait...

That’s some Aunt Lydia level shit right there

I agree that the person who is in an abusive marriage should get out, but just for the record, the Bible doesn’t say “God helps those who helps themselves.” That’s probably a bit of folk wisdom some writer put in the mouth of a venal character, like Shakespeare put “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” in the mouth of…

We figured out in 4th grade Sunday school that according to the rules of our sect, it was better to kill your spouse than divorce them. You could be forgiven for murder but apparently not divorce.

I agree! Meanwhile James is over here opening multiple cans of whoopass on the rich.

Ha Ha I like the cut of your grandfather’s jib

Wow I didn’t know Jesus wrote Exodus

What? Where?

I don’t know...St. Augustine and then John Calvin both greatly amplified the hegemony of that strain

Don’t look now, but there are Black evangelical patriarchs in this movement too. Google Voddie Baucham

As a longtime tennis fan, I would just like to say three things. Yea, four. 1) Serena is beautiful. 2) I remember when Serena and Venus were about 12 and some tennis show showed them with their father and said they were going to go far. 3) I never saw how Mary Pierce played with those toothpick arms of hers. In…

OK fair enough! Glad to hear it.

Make ‘em pay for college!

My guess is that some technicians tried to raise the issue, only to be ignored.

Being the sort of person who reads the entire package insert, etc., can be its own kind of birth control (takes one to know one) (also kidding) (but in my case it’s true)

Awwwwwwwww

There’s gonna be some baybees named Taytulla here in a li’l bit.

I know a guy on Facebook who goes by Robert these days but I have it on good authority his mom was gonna name him Today Sponge.

Borderline diabetic here. Thank Goodness for almond milk. If any other alternamilk has as few carbs as almond milk, bring it on. I’m conscious of the water usage issues with almonds—but there’s very little I can have as it is. I have to watch carbs like a hawk and it isn’t for some fad diet, not that anything would be…

I could not figure out what I was supposed to take away from that book. It seemed to me like the book made it Mom’s fault for not wanting him in the first place. Or maybe I didn’t read it right.