I don’t know who originally said it but I always enjoyed the following quote about how you can tell a cult from a religion. “In a cult there is one guy that knows everything is bullshit, in a religion that guy is dead”

There’s a fundamental difference between infecting yourself with a known disease and doing so with untested genetic material.

With the advent of 3d Printing (and the ability to print DNA) along with advances like the CRISPER-CAS9 gene editor, crowd-sourced biohacks are inevitable. I’m guessing the next big leaps in medicine are going to come from people tinkering in their basements rather than profit-hungry pharmaceutical companies more…

What isn’t he getting now that he would get as president? That’s what I don’t understand about all this “fear Pence” stuff. The call is coming from inside the house, people.

I’m picturing Pence sitting across from Mother at the breakfast table, their breakfast of bacon and buttermilk between them, reading this news. “The Lord has given us more work to do, Mother, we must acquit ourselves righteously and without mercy against these sinners.” And then Mike gets out his Jesus wand and they…

I was going to guess finger paintings.

Er, tell that to black men. I’m black, male, and I’ve confronted racism in institutional spaces — I can tell you with 100% certainty that our anger is not only unwanted, but also that anger will be read into whatever words/actions we use.

Usually I see this post too late to comment, but I am enraged by it every week. My mom’s story would sound exactly like this, that she was a good mom and every external force in the world separated us - it was my dad’s fault, it was the neighbor’s fault who reported her, it was my fault for telling my teacher I didn’t…

I’m an adult now with a good life, but I was a child with a mother like the women in these stories. She was stripped of her parental rights by a Midwestern state in the early 90s. I don’t know how much you all know about the Midwest, but for my home state to decide that a woman was not fit to parent, her behavior had…

It’s certainly true that being white and cis would give France significant advantages for getting funding, etc, but the fact that his prior work in the LGBT documentary space got an Oscar nomination would probably be by far his most significant advantage.

Stassa, this is really awesome. Thank you for writing it.

“Calm down” is another phrase men use to tell women that their emotions or countering viewpoints are well actually, wrong. “Calm down” is not a phrase that men regularly say to other men.

God help me, but this email, along with the Rob Lowe personal assistant job posting and even the Steve Harvey “Don’t talk to me” memo, all have me on the side of the celebrity. If you have specific instructions for people working for you, what’s wrong with just putting it out there in a respectful way so everything…

None of this seems that unreasonable to me.

He’s that exhausting kid who comes back from 1 semester at college and won’t shut up about philosophy and the collected work of short stories he wants to publish.

I appreciate it, actually.

I have more or less done this, same with Instagram and Facebook. I am so much happier and at peace. It is the single best thing I’ve done for my mental health and I preach it to anyone who’ll listen.

that isn’t really a problem with cultivation so much as distribution and waste (we can adequately feed everybody on the planet with all the food that is grown on the planet; it’s just that an enormous percentage of it goes in first world garbage cans). it’s the systems and incentives that are fucked up, not the…

Considering how much greater an impact pregnancy has for the woman compared to the man, are you ladies sure you want to trust us with this? I’m just being silly, when has a man ever been anything but 100% responsible and conscientious about sex?

Not to make light of any of this but holy fuck is Ashley Judd a kick-ass, awesome woman. So strong and fearless. Love love.