This is well-put. I think most people don’t realize that the church is run by lay, untrained (for the most part) volunteers so you have a lot of variety in the experience from one Bishop to the next. What is consistent is that the church handbook clearly states that abuse is not acceptable in any form.

Not the Mormon one. This article is not exactly accurate...While I don’t doubt that there are Bishops out there who are misguided, the Church doesn’t condone abuse.

And MD disappeared tonight. Not great Bob!

Keep posting the doggy!

My big bear Marzipan is back from the vet. Like Fanucci, she had an ear hematoma. She’s doped up right now. Henri came up and snuffled at her. He knows she’s hurt and wants his baby sister to get better.

Exactly. White people always saying that black Africans sold other Africans into slavery, but the black slave traders didnt know how terrible the white people were. White people just trying to absolve theyselves

I believe everything terrible I am reading about her.

The North didn’t fight because of slavery, but the South sure as hell did.

I personally enjoy the UK update that Mortal provides.

I can never go into politics because there is a 100% chance I would start my videos and/or speeches with “Listen up, fuckers.” I don’t have it in me to pretend to be a live-action Norman Rockwell painting; I’m too well adjusted. Although honestly I think I would actually be good at policy.

Everybody. Everybody is lying.

If we have the right to decide who’s in this country, I say we keep the guy from the main story and vote out sfoop.

Stephens is practicing lazy journalism. Yesterday he tweeted that if Allen was guilty the judge presiding over the case could have found Allen guilty. The only problem is that this wasn’t a criminal case and Allen was not being tried on his guilt or innocence. The Judge did find that the allegations were credible.

Inflating the numbers with low hanging fruit to make them metrics look good.

Wow. That is some tone-deaf bullshit. I expect nothing less from a guy named Josh. The only adult male name I trust less is Billy.

But when Germany reunited, it was after the government of the DDR essentially fell apart, along with most of the Easter European Communist governments. The people in the DDR realized that their government was a failure, run by a sclerotic collection of aging party hacks. There was really no good alternative to…

Honestly? It would have to fall on whoever is the next Dear Leader of NK maintaining an official line of anti-Western, Best Korea rhetoric while gradually allowing more and more reforms that opened the country up to Western trade. Best case scenario I can imagine is a non-unified Korean peninsula where the North…

uh...I don’t think that’s how the constitution works.

I’m actually surprised they haven’t decided to troll Spanish-speakers by adding a page at www.whitehouse.gov/espanol that just said “aprende inglés.”

Here’s the thing: I don’t think SJP is some sort of angel. Her public persona is nearly as annoying as Carrie Bradshaw. She just seems cloying and wholly inauthentic. However, the fact that Cynthia Nixon, who does come off as intelligent and thoughtful about the world around her based on her interviews and political…