Uh, this is nuttin' compared to the stuff that used to be out there. Does anybody else remember the Modesty Survey? Now that was bananas. That was the survey that found that wearing a cross-body purse strap causes wild lust in men since the strap will draw attention to the fact that there are breasts on you. No,…

I remember going to a conference once about increasing medical access for Native Americans, and somehow one of the panels devolved into a panel of physicians sitting there and bemoaning how "superstitious" NA people are because of the continued existence of the medicine men, shamanic healers and traditional healers.…

Well, now, Marshall Dillon and Miss Kitty never, ever got around to getting it on. In fact, neither of them ever had any kind of romantic relationship while the show was going on. Hmm... Doesn't that tend to suggest something? I gotta wonder.

Well hold on - by calling them "abominations" God ensured that the Jews wouldn't eat them, so they'd stay alive. Then the Christians came along, threw out that whole kosher thing, and what do we have now? Bacon Mania. Maybe God was trying to save the pigs... It makes you think.

Can I just add that I find it amazing that he started the article incredulous at the speculation that Ann B. Davis (Alice from the Brady Bunch) was potentially a lesbian and an active churchgoer? Davis never commented at all on her sexuality and was never linked to anyone romantically, which has led some people to…

The only half-decent answer I've come up with is to donate your money to NGO and non-profit organizations working in these countries.

Thank you for pointing out that this is BAD theology.

Here's the thing...a lot of this has nothing to do with religion, or very little. There's been some research done on people like this guy, and some of it is telling. People tend to presume that the religion makes these people this way - that is creates the homophobia. However, very often, it's the opposite. This guy…

It bears repeating:

I should point out that that author focuses solely on the historical accounts of Josephus, when almost all scholars of antiquity will point out that the best evidence for Jesus' existence never came from Josepheus but through Tacitus, whose writings were generally critical of early Christianity and bore the official…

sorry double post.

My brother in law is Russian, and he saw this show once and promptly declared the family "Bydlo." The closest translation would sort of be "white trash" but it's more than that. I looked it up once and it's a term of profound disgust. Like white trash but contemptible, redneck but more sinister. It's a bad, bad word…

I feel so bad for her family. Her father went back and forth so much, first claiming she was suicidal, then saying she could not kill herself because she was religious and thus believed suicide to be a sin. I've met so many families who absolutely could not admit that their loved one took their own lives, even going…

Not just win, according to the polls, he's going to basically bulldoze his way into the Governorship. The polls are calling a probably 10-15% victory margin. He probably feels totally safe saying this stuff because he knows that there's basically no way he can lose.

I think the problem is that women are expected to feel certain ways about birth and children and when we don't, we're considered aberrations.

Hey, Uganda doesn't need Obama. They have this guy, whose speech launched a million Autotunes (seriously, he's sorta Youtube famous for this stuff). It would potentially be humorous if it didn't spawn a law that, you know, criminalizes normal people:

All I can add is to say just wait until somebody kills in the name of the Rake. Those stories are fucked up. Poor Nancy Grace will have a conniption.

Well, half of those kids are female, which presumably dims their concern. After all, we are discussing misogynists.

He needs to get in with Neil Degrasse Tyson if he thinks that -

Keep in mind this is the LA chapter of the NAACP. They are the same people that gave Donald Sterling an award for his commitment to diversity (and planned to do it again until they got found out).