The TSA has a new mission, apparently: to make sure young women are wearing appropriately modest attire. Here’s what happened, as my daughter described it in text messages to us: she was at the station where the TSA checks IDs. She said the officer was "glaring" at her and mumbling. She said, "Excuse me?" and …
Category Archive: Culture
Jun 17 2013
Quit picking on Marissa Powell!
All right, as we’re seeing splashed all over the news now, Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, fum-fuhed a question about resolving income inequities. Here she goes: And I say, so what? No one expects a dissertation in the feel-good blurb you’re allowed to give in a beauty pageant. She clearly hadn’t thought about the question before, …
Jun 17 2013
How will you know he loves you?
That Han Solo…he’s kind of a gruff man of few words who’s not very good at expressing his feelings. Plus, he’s frozen on carbonite. So how will you know that he really likes you? Easy.
Jun 16 2013
An atheist goes to church: The Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Oh, gob. I’m beginning to crack. This whole series was a ghastly mistake. As I was sitting there in the pews (unpadded this time!), it began to sink in that I was bored, excruciatingly deeply terribly bored, that these people were saying nothing of any interest to me and never would, and that the whole …
Jun 16 2013
The KEY to understanding Genesis!
Daniel Friedmann has found it! It’s the scaling factor that lets you convert the ‘days’ of God in the book of Genesis into human years. This is reported with total credulity in the Toronto Star. Let’s take the word “day.” In terms of the first six days, they’re “creation days,” which are different from just …
Jun 16 2013
David Silverman vs. Justin Vacula
Silverman appeared on Vacula’s “Brave Hero” (jeez, but it hurts just to type that ridiculous name for a show dedicated to hating) radio tonight and gave him a good chewing out. Silverman was far more diplomatic than I could ever be: he encouraged Vacula, telling him he could be a great activist, while also unambiguously …
Jun 15 2013
This would be a good day to make like Spock
I want to be just like Leonard Nimoy when I grow up.
Jun 15 2013
Man of Steel, Movie of Wreckage
A couple of things are driving me to distraction in the recent crop of superhero movies. Maybe Man of Steel was a fine piece of entertainment — they certainly threw money at the screen — but it also contained a fine collection of irritants. Lens flare. WHY? What does it mean? How does it add …
Jun 14 2013
That’s not obnoxious. I could show you obnoxious, if you’d like.
Down there in sunny wingnutty Florida, a judge recently decided that Christian groups could “passively” distribute Bibles in public schools — that is, they could leave them on tables and allow students to pick them up. Mary Elizabeth Williams thinks that’s a bad idea, and I agree — it’s a decision that opens the door …
Jun 14 2013
Theodore Beale, racist asshat (and not embarrassed by it)
I recently highlighted NK Jemisin’s speech in Australia, which pointed out the disgusting degree of racism still common in the US. One small part of the speech noted a remarkable recent occurence. …the membership of SFWA also recently voted in a new president. There were two candidates — one of whom was a self-described misogynist, …
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