OK, I am as pro-abortion as it gets. I even call myself pro-abortion rather than pro-choice because I think it's important to de-stigmatize the act of abortion. Conservative efforts to restrict access and to allow activists to emotionally and physically assault people seeking abortion are repellent to me.

But who are…

So, so many book saidisms

I think everyone should get gay-married, but this kind of economic analysis makes no sense to me: Wouldn't they just spend this money on something else, if not on their marriage?

To which I would say your opinion has its roots in a number of social processes:

The comparison may be political "unhelpful," but it doesn't mean that it's inappropriate: Both homosexuality and pedophilia are categories of sexual orientation and sexual behavior that have been criminalized and pathologized. If we look in a cross-historical sense, both categories have been seen in other cultures as…

And what is categorized as a disorder is culturally and historically variable: It depends on the social context. They pathologized homosexuality for around a century before it became politically unfeasible to do so. Both the pathologization of homosexuality, and the end of that pathologization, have their basis in the…

"The government is going to kill all of us for no reason!"

I don't think this is accurate. Clearly, Palin is some stream-of-consciousness modernist poet, like a right-wing e.e. cummings.

Or maybe it's just a perfect representation of the coherence of her worldview.

Maybe we human beings aren't as self-determining as sometimes we like to think.

Reminds me of when all the Republicans tried to distance themselves from Todd Akin, when his political positions were indistinguishable from their national platform.

Which potentially incentivizes innocent individuals to plead guilty.

Maybe. But I'd wager that another thing that contributes to this is that there is probably a great deal more heterogeneity in Democrats' selections as well, with some preferring atheists and others preferring evangelicals. It doesn't mean that Democrats are that much less "hateful" (not a big fan of this…

Well, you don't have to look just at means. There are ways of transforming the data to get at that.

Clearly, this is ridiculous, but — given that this is Florida we're talking about — I'm just happy he didn't "stand his ground" against his unrepentantly alcohol-chucking wife.