Not at all, the universe is amazingly beautiful and wondrous. Life is an unbelievably incredible thing. I want my universe big, full of stars and galaxies and the mystery of the big bang and what came before. I want my history unusual and interesting, to see the gaps in our evolutionary studies filled, to see the…

So that’s a “no, I’m not reading these comments before I respond to them.”

Seriously?

It’s like that quote “Oh, your boss is a jerk and you had a really hard day at work? There’s a support group for that! It’s called ‘everyone,’ and it meets at the bar every night.”

As a former 7th grade teacher, by age 12, all kids lie to get out of trouble and think they’ll get away with it. Because they’re 12. And even the nicest smartest 12 year old will lie to get out of trouble. Race and gender don’t matter. The fact is we don’t know what happened. She could’ve been uncomfortable; she…

I taught preschool for several years. This has resulted in me saying things like ‘it is not a choice to chew on your cage’ to the hamsters.

Found the non-American.

I’m proud to say I was never on the cool pope bandwagon. It was a meaningless attempt to deflect criticism but actually changed nothing, and 95% of people fell for it.

Love ‘liberals’ in this comment section inventing reasons that this wasn’t his fault. So pathetic, he met her confirmed he supported her, said she should ‘stay strong’ and gave her two rosaries. It is disgusting.

If you keep bending over backwards, at some point does the ground hit your head?

Uh, yeah. I know a ton of Episcopal priests who have been drooling on themselves the past few weeks over Francis. I work in repro justice, so this fawning annoys me.

My new tribal diet is going to sweep the nation. You can eat whatever you like, but any meal you eat with more than 20g of sugar out carbs requires you then eat a 10oz bag of live fire ants, like our ancestors.

So ... it’s Phase I of the South Beach Diet, except you can’t eat dairy and apparently you can eat fruit?

The thing is that you can do all the unhealthy stuff too, just not all the time. I want to eat a pint of ice cream in front of Netflix or an entire pack of Oreos (as I have done today)? Fine, but not every day.

Everyone knows this. Easier said than done, obviously. No need to be a jerk about it.

He is so charming. His cameo in Colbert’s “Get Lucky” video was my favorite part.

Classic. Relevant.

I’m actually really glad to hear this - my dad’s sister died of aggressive uterine cancer, and my mom had a hysterectomy at 35 because of likely pre-cancerous fibroids. I’m a non-smoker, have no history of clots, and have low blood pressure (90/60) as it is, so for me and my body the risk-benefit balance weighs…

In any other context I would agree. I grow extremely tired of the fact that whenever mistreatment of women is discussed men must appear from the shadows to derail and antagonize and concern troll. But this particular article is literally about that phenomena.

This issue is far too complicated and personal for me to give a shit about what other people think. Honestly.