If that is the case, then it is much harder for me to be completely sympathetic to her. She could have worn the feather around her neck, in her hair, or somewhere else and still graduated. Still, the fine is outrageous, and assuming she's already been accepted to a college, if I were her I'd take my *GED and go on in…

I'm no legal expert either, but I'm guessing there are pictures of students wearing crosses(it is in the south) somewhere on their persons on graduation day from this school. Perhaps someone with legal expertise could explain how under those circumstances that the school's actions would not be religious discrimination.

Plausible is all you need to claim it as science the field of evolutionary psychology, or as I have redubbed it: social bias confirmation studies.

I'm not going to say there is no evolutionary psychology research or theories that are founded in science, but as someone who is a)scientifically literate and b)capable of logic and finding logical fallacies, I can say the vast majority of what I have read is speculative and unsubstantiated at best. Social Bias…

I think the most awkward thing is when I think I recognize someone and it is not them and I make the "I am so glad to see you!" face, and then we make full eye contact and see it is not them, and my face falls a little bit, then I scramble for recovery. I need glasses.

My husband and I used to meditate while looking into each others eyes, for one hour everyday. We only do that occasionally now. It is definitely way easier for me to make eye contact with anyone because of this. It also had some pretty powerful effects on our relationship.

My first thought was, "...at least long term unemployed people now have some kind of option for their resume...". I wouldn't say there is nothing wrong with it, but if someone has the skills and talent for a job, then I wouldn't really hold it against them if they used this service to help them get a position. I am…

If you are ever in my neck of the woods, and I mean that literally, you are on. That is Upper Lena Lake in the Olympic National Forest, which is very near to where I live.

I hope I'm not being too forward when I say if I were talking to you where I am IRL, I would propose that we hike this trail:

Hate would be too strong a word for my feelings about Husserl and Heidegger, I just found them boring. I did like Merleau-Ponty and I hope that you do not feel antipathy towards all of phenomenology.

Just about everything I hear about the UAE is appalling. I have heard of many stories similar to this that have happened there, as well as many far worse. I have no idea how they attract anyone with a shred of decency to voluntarily go there.

She can have my copy of Heidegger's Being and Time. She can also have Dogen's Shobo Genzo, it's never too early for a multicultural philosophical education.

Kouign amann is a very similar pastry that is baked, not fried, and might be easier to try at home, though it probably isn't any lower in calories. Also, as a bonus, kouign amann has a glorious amount of caramelization going on that the cronut does not have.

Brad Pitt,

I feel this highlights how problematic the idea of empowerment has become. Empowerment, as we have come to define it, is a feeling: the sense of agency one has over their choices. It seems that what those choices are and the situations in which the arose are not held as significant if the individual okay with them.…

Donald Trump maybe the worst attention whore of all time. I am quasi disgusted with myself for having typed his name, it is more than he deserves.

I think you misunderstand me. Part of my point is that use of substances by pregnant women is talked about zealously while other potentially harmful behavior is not. My stance is that we don't talk about those things because it opens the conversation to much larger more complex problems. For instance, merely being…

The unsolicited advice and alarmist admonitions that pregnancy provokes is truly maddening and worthy of discussion. I would never tell a pregnant woman what she should be doing. However, educating people about the problematic things we do to ourselves is important. We don't need signs that say "Don't use that lead…

I'm planning on telling my grandchildren how I survived the invasion of KILLER BEES in my childhood, and how it toughened and shaped my character.

It is interesting that the conversation as to what pregnant women expose themselves to is almost always intoxicants and not, say, phthalates which are common in cosmetics, and are also known to be harmful.