OK, I'll bite, what distinguishes superhuman Beyonce, Oprah, Rihanna and Halle Berry from apparently ordinary human Kerry Washington?

I'd still watch the PBS news hour and Chris Hayes when I remember to tune in.

I had the same thought. This is an interesting result, but I don't see that this study had proven whether this behavior is learned or an evolutionary adaptation. It maybe that this learned behavior yields an evolutionary advantage, but that doesn't make it automatically a product of Evo. Psych.

Doesn't everyone do some version of this? My life would be perfect if only... It says something about social conditioning that women almost universally do this about beauty, but I promise guys do this too, just not universally focused on their own pulchritude.

The obvious answer is to stop giving tax breaks to churches.

Fair enough. However, your response was exactly the butthurt sort of response I've seen from extroverts when the focus of the conversation isn't them. Yeah, when there aren't extroverts trying to suck up all the oxygen in the room, introverts can go a little overboard patting each other on the back for how wonderful…

I can never help but be amused when someone makes a generalization about introverts and an extrovert gets upset, thinking it is somehow a slight against them. I'm also surprised how often I've observed this reaction.

I suppose it depends on why an atheist rejects the existence of God. If it is based on a rational argument, namely that it is irrational to believe in a God without proof (which is the typical argument) then it's equally irrational to believe in astrology without proof. If the atheistic belief is based on a…

I felt like I was AARP eligible when I finished grad school, and I was one of the youngest kids in my class through high school.

8‽ So, these kids will turn 20 their senior year? Yeah, that won't be skeezy at all.

If a deaf roshi faps in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Yeah, well, when the USN says, "Gays are A-OK!" perhaps God is speaking for himself.

Who else thinks the pope got advanced notice on this and figured, "Shit, if the US military is making me look like an ignorant backwards tool it's time to hang up the Fanon, Camauro, and Tiara."

Hmm, my "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries" addition may be getting out of hand. I saw the picture and thought, "Wow, her hair looks fantastic, like one of the LBD sisters!"

Libertarian ubermensches will not be controlled by your so called sense of fashion!

JP-2 packed the College of Cardinals with conservative cardinals, so unless a more liberal member of the collage has some serious blackmail material it'll definitely be conservative.

Has Savage lightened up on monogamy? I've read a few interviews months back where he was pretty universally critical of it.

I'm a fan of the concept that there are two competing but valid evolutionary strategies at play in human society - monogamy and polyamory - and each of us tend more towards one or the other. It would be best if we could all determine for ourselves which we tend towards, and find like minded mates.

The Non-Adventures of Wonderella

Did anyone have the good sense to post this as a response to her red balloon picture?