I just started playing Hearthstone and immediately loved the fact that lands are gone. I miss a lot of the complexities of magic but there is just nothing fun about basic lands. Best case scenario they're just perfunctory, or else they're just fucking you up.

The title track of Jonathan Richman's "Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love" is both the first and last track on that album, and is my favorite Jonathan Richman song (the first version).

I you haven't, you should check out The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006. About half of it is alternate and live versions of tracks from Time out of Mind and Modern Times and to me they are often better than the album versions. And all the Oh Mercy tracks are definitely better than…

And that's an important distinction. Pedophilia is a mental illness. Being attracted to prepubescent kids is not natural and evidence suggests that it is not curable but is manageable. Some pedophiles never commit crimes. Statutory rape is a crime. While it is natural to be attracted to post-pubescent kids below age…

I have a strong anti-"white trash"/redneck bias. Growing up I was bullied by some people who could be described that way, and being a nerd with ex-hippie parents I've always hated country music, NASCAR, four wheelers, etc. So now when some guy with a circle beard in a camo hat drives up in his 3/4 ton pick up I…

Considering that BLM knows what we all know - Bernie Sanders is not going to get nominated let alone elected - it seems to me they are treating his events as what they effectively are, which is progressive rallies/caucuses. This is a place where they can successfully take space and time and attention among would be…

My wife and I waited until marriage due to religious beliefs. A lot of my friends did too. I was still a "virgin" then, at age 30, though I'd gone about as far as you can without penetration in previous relationships, and in retrospect both before and after the wedding I wish I'd gone less far. My wife was not a…

SSPX is certainly a magnet for cranks and many cranks are driven by negativity, so I understand your antipathy. My first reaction to them was also "I love your aesthetics but loathe your attitude." The first SSPX people I knew personally were John Birch Society fanatics who hosted the Ron Paul meet-up I was part of in…

No they aren't related at all. Opus Dei is a movement primarily forlay people encouraging piety. They have no particular beef with Vatican II or the recent popes. John Paul II loved them and canonized their founder. SSPX is very critical of V II and subsequent popes and JP II excommunicated their founder for Jordannf…

SSPX is not sedevacantist. They reject many modern Church teachings and practices and they are are out of communion because they have disobeyed the pope in serious matters, but they remain Catholic. They are prodigal brothers and I hope for their return.

Thanks, I will check that out. I agree that lack of clear definition was one of the main roadblocks to real conversation or debate about same sex marriage. That's why finding the Girgis/George/Anderson paper "What Is Marriage" was so surprising to me. I'd been on the "yeah sure, why not" side of the argument until…

I know, there are a few individuals who are willing to have a genuine conversation, but the overall tone has become so dull and unpleasant. Even among the staff writers there is a bullying, prideful insistence on shouting progressive orthodoxies, gathering high fives and shaming any divergent opinion or perspective.…

"While bride price or bride service is a payment by the groom or his family to the bride's parents, dowry is the wealth transferred from the bride's family to the groom or his family, ostensibly for the bride."

Yes, I am rural and backwards. And smart and curious. This used to be a palce where that fit in is all.

These comments, this site have gone to shit. Of course it's been a long time coming: it all started with Vanderwerff and for all intents and purposes ended with the mass exodus. And the comments have only really followed suit. But for a good 10+ years this was a place that I could expect a lot from writers and…

Man I haven't watched Everlong in a long time and what a perfect stab of 90's nostalgia that is. And not the "The 90's were so fun and cool" nostalgia but the "life was tough, with lots of sadness and fear" nostalgia.

I'm sure they at least tried to get Cheney and Rumsfeld, so yeah maybe.

"Hey listen, I'm a powerful millionaire and I am using my power to make more millions for myself. That's it. What don't you understand about that?"

We can comment on articles about commenters now? This isn't going to end well.

Rob Zombie perfected the Michael Myers story. Now I consider the rest of the Halloween movies to be sensationalized versions of the events depicted in Zombies films. Anachronisms aside, it's like how Amityville Horror is 'based on a true story' in our world, so the prior Halloween movies are c'based on a true story'…