We have been told repeatedly that we are untrustworthy and immoral, simply for the lack of faith. The line goes something like, "How can you be moral if you are not concerned about punishment?" It gets old, very old. My response is to ask that if I proved to them tomorrow that there is no God, would they run out and…

I wonder if you read the whole article. Because the author was pretty clear on that.

My aunt posted about this on FB, praising Paul for doing this. Praising! Crazy Tea Party relatives - they're all the rage these days.

No, no I will not. This has been a PSA from an official Old.

And I have right-wing lunatic friends. For exactly what it's worth that he has gay friends.

"African diaspora" and "out of Africa theory" are not the same thing. One denotes the dispersal of Africans primarily in the early modern period, primarily as a result of the slave trade. The other refers to the idea that the human species originated in Africa. The first does in fact have a major impact on word…

Bill O'Reilly is someone who I imagine has a lot of self-loathing. I think if you watched Fox News with a copy of the DSM V handy, that book would be pretty ragged before too long. Heck. not just Fox. There's a lot of crazy out there.

I think I was three or so when my Grandfather brought me back from the barber's with a military cut (from what had been a Ringo mop cut). My Mom was pissed!

Life-long Southerner here (almost). I laughed.

Pretty much from age 5 I did a lot of wandering. Sure, much of it was a rural childhood, but getting lost in the woods probably has more risk than walking home from the park - and hunters shooting anything that moves are rarely patrolling DC suburbs. I remember getting on our bikes with the neighbor kid when I was…

And in several states, he would win.

Fear. I mean he is probably ill, but the key factor driving all authoritarians is their own deep, intense fear. Of what? You name it.

Ya'll missed what is both the best and the worst of Christmas, 2014. I give you the guys from Dukes of Hazzard singing "Baby it's cold outside"

I was just about to go looking for that.

Could be worse. Mesopotamia had base 60 mathematics - hence 360 degrees in a circle and all that.

Big cats like boxes too

Yeah, but they don't have the votes. Powerful friends and all, but strengthening the Latino vote overall is now far more important. And Cubans are not the only people who care about our dirt-stupid Cuban policy.

Actually no. The only demographic group in favor of maintaining the policy of the last 55 years are Cuban-Americans over 70. The world has moved on.

You know, people like Donohue insist a) there is a God b) and by that I mean A god, as in only one and c) said God is male.

Um, U2's first album was 34 years ago, and the band formed way back in 1976. Of course they aren't knocking Swift and Co. out of the top spot in 2014. Yet they are still a major money making machine. Not exactly Exhibit A for "the end of men."