You can find copies of Hans Christian Anderson stories like The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen online here: http://hca.gilead.org.il/#list or if you're more into analog books, there's probably a collection at the nearest library. Here's a few links to some early versions of fairy tales that were also made into…

They took the story of a mermaid who needs to be loved in order to gain a soul; who receives magic legs that make her "constantly feel like she is walking on sharp swords hard enough to make her feet bleed" and who after being rejected by her love, tries stabbing him to death, but instead decides to throw herself into…

There's a part of me clinging to the dim hope that this will be repealed when the GOP realizes how much they're alienating the population of a swing state with this.

GUYS!! I found out we have go-kart tracks right here in America! We don't need to give up our bodily autonomy or religious freedom! LET'S DRIVE GO KARTS THEN GET HAMMERED IN THE PARKING LOT!

Shit, I'd vote her in. She's in second grade, so she understand science better than most republicans. And she's a lot more charming and less partisan than most democrats.

Like they say before a job interview—be you, just be your best (or rather, sexist, fanciest) self.

Yeah...the fact that atheists have more reason to be angry/defensive than Christians because of our culture, especially on social media, is probably the most legitimate contributing factor to this. That, and when religion (or lack thereof) enters a political sphere there is a kind of rhetoric that follows it around.

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Well put. Blind cynicism is a phase many of us go through at some point in our lives, usually in adolescence. Like blind optimism, it generally does little to change the status quo. It's something we have to grow past, so that we can reach a mature understanding of the world as neither pure evil nor pure good...not…

It also seems worthy of an eyebrow raise that Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens really represent a particular type of atheist, and a particular outlook that tends to weigh negative, while the Christians they selected seem more likely to be a part of the religious right...again, a particular type of Christian.

I…

I have a friend who once said he preferred to call himself a "humanist," because calling himself "atheist" only defined him by what he didn't believe in, not what he did believe in. I suspect it's possible he also wanted to distance himself from anti-theists, and that is part of his reason. But I thought it was a very…

Yuuuuup. Sending her photos of her house and her address are especially scary. I mean, I'm not saying it's okay to send someone an email saying "I'm gonna come over there and kill you" but it's easy to dismiss as an idiot behind a keyboard. I would be really freaked if they took photos of my home and sent them to me.

I was surprised to hear this...I did a little poking around and found this. It's got the remarks she made and her apologies on it as well as some of the reactions: http://feminspire.com/vlogger-laci-g…

Yeah, I'm gonna second that motion. As wonderful as the supreme court rulings on DOMA and Prop 8 were, there's almost a tone of "We'd rather feel happy than sad, so let's focus on the ruling that makes us happy!"

This is a personal thing—but to call yogurt "shoe shopping good" is accurate to me, if only because I find shopping for shoes as boring as eating yogurt.

Don't show him that gif. He'll start crying about how Catbama is keeping the white cats down.

I can only assume that he's wearing it in solidarity with the assholes who want to KEEP DEM GAYS OUT OF THE BOY SCOUTS because like RELIGIOUS FREEDOM OR SOMETHING..

I never have and never will be willing to spend $100+ on shoes, but I'm thinking of buying some off-brand pink/red sneakers.

1) That is awesome.

"WARNING! In the considerations of safety, you should NEVER let a male dolphin attempt anal sex with you."

Holy shit, I don't even have a penis but all the anti-drug scare tactics they gave me in high school could be replaced by this one headline and they would work better.