Well Bill Maher is basically a professional contrarian. I'm not sure if Bill believes the majority of stuff he says - or if he just does it to get a rise out of people. He's voraciously anti-medicine/most science (but of course supports evolution because the religious right hates it). I don't truly believe that Bill…

Well, since we all know that Earth is traditionally a lady, it just makes sense that Earth should be treated approximately the same as human women - that is to say, like crap. Screw you, Gaia, Zeus was waaaay better.

The wild thing is that he's calling out Joe Concha, whose stuff, which I've read, is fairly on the moderate side of things. There are far more liberal writers at that site. Why the Concha hate?

I've seen pundits who are lousy on-air, but who I've suspected are fairly nice or reasonable people IRL. Hannity is not one of them. I've always had a suspicion that he is really a nasty, myopic guy all the time. Now I've got confirmation!

Why didn't she give him a chance? She rejected him without getting to know him!

The really messed up thing is that a lot of research has shown that such a practice would be deeply unethical because memories form neurological pathways in the brain. Most neuroscientists agree that even if you can manage to repress a terrible memory, you will still feel the effects of it unconsciously - so you'd…

Yeah, according to some people. There actually are people who argue that since witness and victim testimony can be wrong, it should just be excluded and you can't trust personal testimony. The biggest sadness of the whole mess is that the whole movement was largely kicked off by research done by women (Elizabeth…

I've seen people argue that the "pile-on" is obvious evidence that they are all lying, since the more recent ones are seeing the "favorable" press treatment the previous accusers received and they want some (what media have they been watching?) or that since Cosby paid out to Andrea Constand back in 2005, they know…

Yeah, I was aware of it vaguely before, but not the way I am now. I've seen MRAs argue about alleged "false memory syndrome" (something that no major mental health groups have shown to be valid, but that doesn't stop them). I'm aware that there has been very important, valid research into the malleability of human…

We've reached the point where BC rape accusations are just becoming a part of the everyday national discourse. "Well, Bob, it's 45 and clear out with gusty winds from the Southwest, and 2 more women have come forward against Bill Cosby."

This just affirms to me that wealth can be a sickness which skews one's whole worldview. Last 100k? Oh, the humanity. You know why people hate rich people? Stuff like this.

Sadly, this was not a "fucked" investigation. This sort of thing is standard. Most police departments and prosecutors have a concept of a "good" rape case. Let's look at this one: you have two individuals - no witnesses. You have physical evidence that can easily be explained away. Basically, they looked at it and…

Fun fact: My husband does an enviable impression of that forsaken Raylynn song after inhaling helium. Her voice is just so high, and the song is just so twee. It's hard to really grasp the cheese level that song induces. And I'm a Christian and it twists my insides to hear it.

I think it varies by what is meant by "judgment." I've never personally seen skinny people being directly mean to heavier people, but I have no doubt it happens. First rule I realized is that if it happens outside the gym on the street, it'll probably happen inside the gym.

Yeah, I can't even get worked up over her now. She's a IRL troll, but she does it well. At this point, I don't think anyone other than far-right conservatives really believe that she believes this stuff.

The only half-decent things I can take from this is: 1.) they were dumb enough to incriminate themselves, 2.) there still seem to be decent people online who can recognize this, and 3.) a police department that actually moved with some type of expediency and had a detective on it in less than a week. So....yay?

Absolutely. It is a good thing. I just wish that they didn't have the impunity for so long. Imagine if Bill Cosby's first victim had felt supported enough to call the cops. Maybe he could have been stopped then. Imagine if Jimmy Saville's first victim could have reported. That would have spared so many people. People…

Why do I get the distinct impression that, in addition to national anthems and national flags, each country will soon be able to claim a national sex offender? The US gets Bill Cosby, the UK gets Jimmy Saville, and now Canada gets this guy! It's a veritable race to the bottom.

Hmm. So he can't face any legal recourse for what's happened. That sucks. I am amazed that one of his victims was able to show such incredible grace and class in his presence. I can't image how hard that must be.

I think he is basically "pro-black." In the Cleveland case, he saw black men being jailed for assaulting a girl who was not black (frankly, I doubt her race mattered, it just wasn't black) and that was unacceptable to him. He sides with Jada, if you notice, not because he actually seems to care about her in the lease,…