In your view, how would the Church's response have been different if they were intending to cover it up?

I'm a big fan of the creaminess of butter mints, but I don't think the balance of flavors would allow for curiously strong.

You should sit in on the fights I have with guys who spell their name Erik.

As I understand Ryan's in-laws are quite liberal and pretty influential in their state's Democratic party. Ryan's wife made them stop arguing politics with Ryan or she threatened to not let them see their grandchildren.

I was going to pretty much post this exactly.

I've seen this before, thought it was apropos.

I wonder if they'll put back the Where they cut off your ear/if they don't like your face. lyric in Arabian Nights.

Thank you for sharing the original article; it makes a connection I hadn't twigged to before and raises some interesting questions. I found the context of the article definitely changes the interpretation of the quote.

Perhaps there was more to that Valenti quote, but you might as well say war or social stratification is as American as apple pie, it's way too universal to the human condition to call it an American phenomenon. Cracking rape culture is deeper than culture, it reaches down to our ability to accept and inflict…

I think you've got it exactly right, and now the nation is watching Steubenville's cognitive dissonance as they have to reconcile their perception of their jocks with the reality that their jocks are terrible human beings.

I think it's less about protecting the rapists, and more about protecting an innocent in a future unspecified case where the court of public opinion gets it drastically and tragically wrong. The point is the court of public opinion has notoriously bad standards when it comes to accepting evidence, so let's think…

He probably stuck around for 6 years because he's married and loves his wife?

But isn't it fair to say that if her needs are being met, but his needs are not, his feelings of resentment are pretty justified? Maybe the marriage can't work anymore, but something isn't quite square as described above (which, granted is a small snapshot of a whole).

So long as the color is modest.

As I understand, they all have that possibility - it's kinda a crap shoot whether someone has that outcome or not. Lots of nerves down there, and if the wrong nerve gets nicked or irradiated or absorbs too much cemo, yeah that function is done. However, it's more common to have reduced function rather than no…

Here's the thing - you can just about bet your buttons that someone believed in this with the same fervor that the early Christians who were fed to the lions felt about their Gospels. These sects held Gospels derived from the same oral traditions that the Canonical Gospels were derived from, only they obviously went…

It's quite simple: the Catholic Church wants to put women on a pedestal and if they aren't on that pedestal they're harridans who caused man's fall from grace and deserve horrid treatment. Perhaps some day they'll realize there's only room for Mary on that pedestal, but first they'd have to internalize that women…

I'm always amused when stuff like this comes up because it illustrates how divergent the early Christian sects were in their beliefs and how basic the things they didn't agree on were.

I was told by someone at JSC (I don't recall who anymore, it was either a tour guide, or an astronaut who taught a class I took there years ago) that the astronauts don't actually eat astronaut ice cream in space as it makes lots of crumbs and crumbs are death to machinery in space.

The proposed magnetic sail- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail would mitigate lower energy charged particle impacts - which is quite useful, but it wouldn't do anything for high energy photons and it would do nothing for the HZE particles discussed here - there's just too much energy in the particles for the…