Got it, so this is about your personal decision making process, not about establishing logical debate. I can't really engage that.

I just want to say, I love the fact that Stefanie didn't try to pass judgment on her niece, interviewed her like a real person rather than an object up for judging — I think it's hard to do a piece like this without alarmism or the introduction of snide feelings about a young woman who is happily receiving a lot of…

But, really, it was about ethics in games journalism.

Right? I'm sick of this cool pope shit. He still heads up an organization that hoards money while children of their followers starve, actively works to subjugate women's rights at every opportunity, and still hasn't really handled that whole child-raping-priests thing. Instating this pope is such an obvious propaganda…

The "cool" Pope is cool in the sense that those anti-drug plays put on at your school were cool by virtue of using that hip slang we teenagers used.

I am not terribly far from facing Maynard's decision — I have metastatic cancer in my lungs and brain — and I have put a lot of thought into end of life issues from medical, legal, spiritual, and relational perspectives. One thing I have not considered is the perspective of Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, because…

seconded.

Okay, but didn't Jesus basically commit suicide by Roman?

I actually spent years building up credibility with level-headed, insightful comments just so that I could be a non-gray commenter when the time came to squander it all by defending Taylor Swift.

Arab/Islamic culture is far more homogeneous than Western culture. And oppression of women is far more ingrained in Islam and Middle Eastern culture (look at Orthodox Judaism) in general than Christianity and Western culture. Yes there are plenty of different cultural differences in the Arab world but when you share…

Reading the replies here is discouraging... Ben Affleck wasn't listening to a word Bill Maher or Sam Harris said that night and neither did most on this thread. His views on all religions are fairly consistent and as harsh as they seem, they are needed.

Today's Liberals are as hypocritical as any Conservative. Progressives are losing all credibility on the issue of tolerance and speech. When gay people are prevented from saying literally anything. Progressives yell about free speech. When a Muslim woman anywhere in the western world is criticized for wearing an…

Berkeley is surely very welcoming of someone actually responsible for the physical torture of Muslims, ie John Yoo.

She would not have to tell the doctors. Any complications from a medical abortion look identical to a spontaneous miscarriage.

It is super cute to document them for your future baby, and to send them to like, your sister and your mother. Even if weekly! To inflict them on people you knew in junior high on social media, though, is CRIMINAL.

And still others are angered by the fact that Sam has been the victim of an apparent double standard, wherein high-profile draftees like Johnny Manziel—white, rich, and straight—are celebrated for racking up endorsements and Instagramming themselves holding fistfuls of cash while Sam, who grew up in extreme poverty…

You're totally right; the way in which he has turned down most of his sponsorship opportunities, canceled the reality documentary after negative feedback, performed well in the preseason, and given one interview since being drafted by the Rams (in which he talked about how performing well in the preseason gave him…

Nearly every single woman in my neighborhood is empirically skinnier than I am, and I have a single digit dress size. They've each have between two and four children; I have zero.