“encouraged shoppers to use fitting rooms for their god-given purposes”.

This was used by the WWII “dam busters”. The bombs had to make it over an anti-torpedo net, then skip, skip, hit the dam, curve downwards, and boom next to the dam but underwater. So cylindrical bomb, transverse axis, mounted beneath the bombers, motor to spin them up before dropping them.

That sounds much more likely and reasonable.

Witchcraft!

My office is over the parade route (literally the first building) and walking into work a couple of hours before the parade was amazing. I was tearing up at all the girls in their jerseys and tutus and signs and american flags! There were little boys there too, which is great because it is so important for them to be…

Gothamist has some great photos of early birds this morning; I love the ones with the sanitation worker and the dad playing soccer with his girls (I think the one in blue is also the young lady in the last pic above).

so many of them on the train this morning. just roving bands of kickass little girls and i was just standing there cramped on the A train like

It is BEAUTIFUL! I knit and crochet, now I want to tat!

HEY THAT’S ME! I MADE THAT! True life, I cried a little bit when I got it in the mail, and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen my father look at me with such pride.

I could not read that article without rolling my eyes hard. The dad loves making himself the victim and, even if the things that happened are true, he didn’t seem to express concern about his children being in juvenile detention for not wanting to see him.

Plus! Plus! If you read through the actual transcript, all three of these kids seem incredibly brave and willing to stand up to the judge (WHO IS SUCH A FUCKING BULLY IT’S UNREAL) and to their dad, who is just standing there, not doing shit. At one point, after the 15-year-old is taken away, the 9- and 10-year-olds…

Yeah... She’s in full support of women ... but please “I’m not a feminist”! Means there’s something wrong with being a feminist.

I’d like to. I don’t know how this misconception about what humanism means got started, but it’s very annoying.

Are you? because Humanism is not what she says it is, the word you are looking for the describe her feelings that everyone should be equal is feminism.

Yeah the word you’re looking for is egalitarian, not humanist. Humanism is a belief system based on the belief that humans can sort themselves out without rules from a divine being & focuses on rationalism and empiricism over deism. Egalitarianism is the correct term for people that believe everyone needs a little…

Except they’re two significantly different things; to even suggest one is an alternative to the other illustrates a fundamental ignorance of both. I think before anything else changes, we should make it illegal to form and share opinions about a subject without at least reading its Wikipedia entry. I’m so tired of…

Can we ban people who don't effing know what humanism is from using the word in conversation or nah?

I was raised in an atheist household (I'm 25 now), and I'm always surprised at how uncommon it is. I know lots of atheists, but all of them came to their atheism as teenagers or adults. I don't know anyone else with atheist parents.