I’d like a second opinion on whether or not it is, in fact, legally impossible to have half a kid. Surely particle accelerator technology is reaching the point where quantum-indeterminate quasi-children are the future.

Fellow canuck here, I gotta disagree with your policework there, on an otherwise fine rage-post. Medicare is a cromulent term for the broad guarantee of public health insurance under the Canada Health Act.

That’s true! but beside the point. How should we respond to stories like this, from the point of view of anti-sexism? If religion is inherently sexist, we shouldn’t see this story as inspirational or a good thing; in fact, we should be encouraging the priests of the temple in driving women away.

^ Indistinguishable from parody.

Except I think the women want to go into the temple to pray, so. Complicated, the world is!

holy shit you made me spray coffee on my keyboard at work fuck fuck fuck

Look, I’m far from an optimist, but the chances of the human race being extinct in 15 years really are zero - at least, in terms of threats we know about, i.e., the environment (like, maybe aliens show up and put us all down, I dunno). The 2030ish dates are ‘by then we’ll be locked into a course to an extremely…

This... isn’t how sex works.

This old person wants to know if ‘tough’ means ‘gooood’ or ‘baaad’, and if it means ‘baaaad’, does it mean ‘bad in a gooood way’ or just ‘bad’.

I’d almost pay that much. These middle-aged dudes give 300% on stage, it’s astonishing and kind of hot.

Except Linda is clearly referencing actual Saudi law and not an abstract law, for example, in her quotation about paid maternity leave and permission to drive.

The paid maternity leave and women driving quote is clearly not about some abstract notion of sharia law; it’s about Saudi law.

“in shariah law if there is even a speck of doubt there can not be conviction of a capital crime.” Which is why there are no executions in Saudi Arabia. 

That’s not really how statistics works. It’s not an even distribution across the category of “white women.”

Yes. I certainly don’t just throw all the vegetables into the same pot already, without ever having thought of keeping them separated. Nope, not me.

Can’t help but wonder what the cheering would have been like around here for the two fishermen murdered in 2006.

It’s illegal in 27 states, and you can still - I assume - charge the practitioners with assault, etc.

I’m glad someone said this because jeez that bothered me.

While I disagree with the general argument of Fallout nostalgia, “Dead Money” is indeed a fantastic work of art. I find it heart-achingly sad.

Minority report: learned about(family-)fucking from Tanith Lee rather than V.C. Andrews. Lee was an amazing writer, best trash ever, 10/10, rest in peace.