If you’re sincere in this and not just trolling, I have to urge you to read Blaker’s Fundamentals of Extremism (or, probably, any number of other books on the Christian right written more recently). The hardcore religious right that makes up the base of the anti-abortion movement also supports corporal punishment for…

Actually devoted Christians (yes, even Evangelicals) didn’t much give a shit about abortion until women’s lib came along and “threatened the family” in the late 60s/early 70s. Catholics were the only ones who really cared about it in mid-20th century America. When the Moral Majority saw women moving out of the house an…

Savannah recalls being pregnant at 19 and says it was hard for her to come to terms with that, but that it was “ultimately worth it” for her to have her baby.

If this is what they believe, why do the vast majority only go after abortion clinics and not fertility clinics, which have destroyed millions of embryos? I think if many of these “devoted christians” were honest with themselves, it’s specifically women’s rights that they are attacking. They care a whole lot less…

Tax the churches.

A lawyer for that delightful web designer contacted me to see if I’d write a “friend of the court” brief arguing how awful it would be for the government to force a creative person to create something that violated their beliefs. I sent a very polite “fuck you, your religion isn’t a license to discriminate as a…

If you thought the industry was hostile to journalists before, just wait until SNK starts inviting reviewers to their embassy in Turkey!

Burke has been cast as Lt. Sharon Garnet, “a low-ranking officer” described as “not one to embrace the spotlight” until “she finds herself rising to the occasion when tragedy strikes Ark One.”

That’s one of the problems that Star Trek (and Star Wars) has at present. It’s focused on callbacks/connections at the expense of building the world out, and only serves to make the whole universe feel smaller. Like, Micheal Burnham. She could have been a human raised by Vulcans, but then they had to go the extra step…

I wouldn’t call it garbage. It’s just a very common, probably over used take on an American accent.

I haven’t hear it in a while...crocodile ;)

I’m not sure how I feel about this. The ending of Game of Thrones left a bad taste in my mouth. After that I was fine leaving Westeros behind for a while  

People get mad at anything they see as remotely “woke” these days. Two other scifi shows (Resident Alien and Picard) were both in their crosshairs recently, the former for daring to have a “girl power” episode with jokes about vaginas (it was hilarious) and the latter for having characters from a future where racism…

He will never resign (at least while a Democrat is in the White House), he will never recuse himself from any case even if was literally “Ginni Thomas v. Biden,” and he will never face any consequences whatsoever. And because Republicans have so fundamentally broken every branch of our government there’s nothing we…

“Love makes you do crazy things” - every man who’s ever physically abused a woman.

My takeaway from the last 14 hours is that a large segment of our population thinks that physical violence is the appropriate reaction to a verbal insult

The normalization of this is twisted and insane.

My takeaway from the last 14 hours is that a large segment of our population thinks that physical violence is the appropriate reaction to a verbal insult, and that physical violence at a formal event full of your peers where you hope to win an award is ok. How far we have fallen.

I generally don’t comment on other people’s appearance, even complimentary, for a reason. People are sensitive about it, and you never know what the reason might be behind an appearance. Who knows if the weight loss you noticed or whatever is a source of pride or a source of angst? A lot of people’s lives would have…

That was Will Smith’s biggest hit in years.