Christ. I don't have any words for this and certainly can't craft a "highlight-worthy" comment, but feel compelled to say that my thoughts are with this woman and her loved ones. This is absolutely gut-wrenching.

So you have a woman who's abused by one man growing up, then by another man she married, and then finally gets exonerating evidence excluded on a technicality by yet another man, who then sentences her to death.

MoGlo, you know I love your writing a lot but the title man! I was literally mainpaged today with an article called "How We Talk About Women" and your title is everything that I was complaining about how the media dehumanises women by llabelling them in reference to men. We all know who Reeva Steenkamp was, at least…

And at the same time a black woman might be put away for 60 years because she fired a warning shot to scare off her aggressive husband.

I'm an attorney who works for a DV program. This exact message could have been sent by nearly all of my clients. Control (and its subsets, including jealousy, isolation, humiliation) are the overriding reality for victims and survivors of domestic violence, and they are all up there in that message. The violence is…

The answer to this question is ambiguous until we see how the decision is worded, assuming Roberts and his band of merry men actually hand down a pro-Hobby Lobby decision. The fact that you have to ask at all, however, suggests one of the unintended consequences that could emerge if this thing goes the wrong way: a…

You should do what my dad did and supplement your kid's education with information that isn't blatantly racist and sexist. I would come home from second grade talking about Thomas Jefferson and my dad would be like, "I bet they didn't teach you about how he fucked his slaves." Plus I bet you'd learn some cool stuff…

The whole "life begins as soon as sperm gets into the egg" thing is the root of all of this. At this rate, pretty soon women will be in trouble for even having periods. Sheesh.

Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot weren't exactly role models either, but I'd expect a decent history curriculum to mention them.

I'm gonna start a business where anyone who wants heart disease or any obesity-related problems covered by his or her health insurance has to turn in certification from a rabbi proving that s/he followed a strict kosher diet and none of the aforementioned health problems were caused by bacon, cheeseburgers, or other…

Seriously, a lot of those Google doodles have taught me more about women in history than than I ever learned in school about women that wasn't based around suffragettes.

Their argument is basically that corporations are not only people, but that they have souls.

Via the excellent Kate Beaton - http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php

Unfortunately, a regular old Catholic Facebook friend of mine has been railing on Cosmos. His beef is that the first episode pointed out that the Catholic Church persecuted Giordano Bruno for challenging the assertion that the sun revolves around the earth. How dare Cosmos report historical facts!!

The only reason I'd get behind these creationists is to push them off a cliff.

Creationists are not going to push Cosmos around like they can with everyone else. And good. Someone needs to take a firm stance.

At the same time, NDT has been extremely respectful of religious beliefs on the show when speaking about it. I couldn't imagine anyone outside of this small sect of science haters are upset…

This is part of a larger overall problem with modern American culture: The idea of opinions being sacrosanct, inherently valid, and worthy of inclusion at every turn.

Creationists aren't even on the radar screen for them, they wouldn't even consider us plausible at all.

Tyson laid it out in the show's first episode: