To paraphrase better theologians than I, Christianity values sacrifice and suffering for the faith, but people aren't always so good at sacrifice and a stable Christian-leaning but not dominated country doesn't offer much in the way of martyrdom. So in order to feel like good Christians some people invented what is…

Battles in the "War on Christmas*":

Didn't you know that not getting everything you want 100% of the time is a human rights violation that is just as bad as the Holocaust?*

And...tuxedo cats RULE THE WORLD!

Me too. Especially since my department has so many of them, as in everyone except me.

These people really do exist, and they're awful. Once, at a work lunch, this horrid woman saw my boss' diamond cross pendant and said, oh that's so wonderful to see, now that no one feels like they can show their Christianity (or words to that effect). As if there were any shortage of women wearing those (there are…

Here's is an artist's representation of why they believe there is a war on Christmas. We put our best men on this.

They have none. This is the standard example of the majority Christians claiming persecution etc. It's hilarious.

What about this gem of a commercial from Australia

Their motivation is shitty, but I do think it's appropriate to either put ALL major religious holidays on the calendar or none, if it's a public, secular school. I'm OK with that part.

They weren't, actually. Because the next occurrence of Yom Kippur coincides Eid ul Fit, they made that year's break nondenominational. Later in the meeting, a board member asked why they had religiously-demarcated breaks at all when nobody else does and they voted on the measure reported here.

There is nothing wrong with removing the word Christmas and calling it Winter Break. Every religion cannot be observed so no religion should be observed. Secular schools, secular holidays.

Same here. Actually, I was jealous of the Jewish kids growing up because they got to miss school for their holidays and I didn't. I saw it as an advantage for them. As an atheist, I'm all for things being secular but this isn't a big thing I don't think.

Was just listening to this story on Kojo Nnamdi (local NPR show in the DMV) and two things to note:

The model from the original champagne butt photo was dark skinned, and oils do really make dark skin photographically lovely. They were probably just trying to recreate the original look as much as possible with Kim, but instead of beautiful, glistening skin, she skews a little toward excessively greasy.

Maybe it's for the same reason body builders spray tan: there's better definition and detail when the light hits.

Of course, that would result in most pets never being adopted in the first place, and a whole lot of younger and healthier animals getting euthanized as a result.

From my point of view - better that I adopted my cat from the county shelter and gave him several years of a happy and healthy life. If I can't afford…

for quite some time i was all 'what is a yellow flicker bead' and then i learned it was 'yellow flicker beat.'

My platform at 18: