The network wasn't under an obligation to punish Maher. They could have simply pointed out that Maher was simply expounding on a point that a panelist made and let it blow over. And D'Souza suffered not a single bit that I can recall. He was a prolific conservative author and speaker at the time and remained so, and…

I think that stuff belies his true hypocrisy. He loves taking religious people to task for, in his eyes, basing beliefs upon myth and speculation. But how is he in a position to critique? He actively discourages people from vaccinating, especially when it comes to the flu vaccine. He openly promotes all manner of…

Here's the thing: Maher didn't even initiate that conversation. Dinesh D'Souza, who was a guest on that episode, did. Maher largely merely re-stated the proposition D'Souza made immediately before, but he said it far, far less tactfully. If you check youtube, D'Souza actually went back on the show soon after and they…

It's so hard to rank anything pertaining to Bill Maher in terms of obnoxiousness. I mean, the anti-vaccine BS, the conspiracy-mongering, etc. I can also remember how he basically took women who breastfeed in public to task because it forces him to recall that breasts have the primary purpose of feeding babies and are…

I think part of the problem is that now, increasing use of legal opioids is being definitively linked to increasing use of heroin. Basically, a lot of people are prescribed legal pills and develop an addiction. Then when those pills are cut off, they turn to illegal means and eventually, a decent number of them work…

Okay, Honest Question Time:

No, I'm not. ALL BC methods can fail. IUDs can fail. However, I would argue that it is not "giving cover" to anything to point out facts that can be backed up by science. The best research indicates that if a woman practices an informed form of NFP/FAM (since it goes by multiple names) her success rate is generally…

I totally agree! That's why I love the Pope Joan story. Pope falls off a horse and has a baby. Can't really beat that.

To be fair, when NFP is practiced correctly, it's effectiveness rate is quite good.

But that's precisely the point. Women cannot hold any ministerial positions within the Church today. Phoebe's position as a deacon would not be available to modern Catholic women, despite historical evidence. Mother Theresa founded an order that obtained the imprint of the Catholic hierarchy, but she held no position…

Uh...wasn't that the point? My point is that you don't need religious influence to justify the interference of the state in human reproductive matters. All you need is the desire to interfere.

I actually kind of like Hoarders. The show openly admits that the process is long. The show is really only there for the "big" stuff, which is the cleanup. A lot of hoarders actually do need to clean up fast - usually when the city or town comes after you and threatens to condemn your place unless you clean it up…

This process must skew your perceptions so much. When I was on a weight loss regime, I was told that a safe rate of weight loss was around 1-2 pounds a week (slightly more in the beginning). When these people drop 10-20 pounds a WEEK, wouldn't that be a tremendous strain upon the heart and other organs? They're…

But then doesn't that go to what the Bible is? The Bible is not, as most people believe, a set collection of books. If you were to go to a bookstore and pick up a random selection of them, you'd find that most of them contain differing material. Protestant, Catholic, Jeffersonian, etc. They vary greatly based upon…

Um, did you bother to read what I posted above? The verse you're citing comes from Paul. Paul, in the letter to the Romans, singled out female ministers and praised them as exceptional.

Since the Catholic Church is currently doing so well with its sexual morals without the women already?

There's actually fairly copious evidence that female priests existed in the early Church and in reality, Paul's writings about them.

The biggest frustration with the Catholic Church's opposition to female priests and ministers is that there is literally NO Biblical basis for it. None. Jesus never said anything that would suggest that he intended to exclude women from the ministry. Nothing. Nada. Zip.

I'm inclined to agree, and then I remember crap like the Chinese One-Child Policy, which is the creation of a self-proclaimed "secular" state that's led to countless numbers of back-alley abortions, rampant human right abuses and terrible demographic imbalances. Then I tend to think that nobody gets to claim the high…

I do wish the article made it clear that this sentence is just BS for any circumstances. This particular woman did not induce a miscarriage or termination at all, but the point should be made clear that even if she did (and many of the women imprisoned with her actually did), this would still be an unacceptable…