This Ethicist column...gah.

I am a straight woman, and I was set up on a date with a man. We got along well initially, but I grew concerned about how evasive he was about his past. I did some sophisticated checking online - I do research professionally - and discovered that he is a female-to-male transgendered individual. I then ended our ( Read more... )

A coalition of conservative, evangelical religious leaders is apparently concerned that young evangelicals care about things like (gasp!) global poverty and climate change. The group, which includes 145 religious leaders would like you to know that "abortion, homosexuality and religious freedom* are still paramount issues." They have published a ( Read more... )

AG Eric Holder has decided that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in the United States. Holder has all but guaranteed KSM's conviction. (I have no idea what evidence the government has that was obtained prior to KSM's arrest and imprisonment in Guantanamo, but if it's so great, why did we hold him for 8 years and repeatedly torture him to get ( Read more... )

Scrub up a couple of potatoes (yukon gold are good ( Read more... )

I went to see Julie and Julia tonight. (By myself. That's what happens when you don't plan ahead and your friends are all out of town or have plans and your husband has to work a 14 hour day on a Saturday. But anyway. I also baked peach pie. A productive Saturday ( Read more... )

The Obama administration is moving towards banning the use of antibiotics in healthy farm animals. The measure is unlikely to pass given the farm industry's opposition (even though Danish pig farmers have shown that you can significantly reduce the use of antibiotics at low cost.) Despite that, it's a welcome sign that Congressional hearings are ( Read more... )

Given today's ruling in Ricci I'm already a bit peeved with the (help, help, I'm being reverse discriminated against!) Supreme Court.

And then I read this. Apparently, there's one case left from the current term that the Supreme Court hasn't decided which involves campaign spending. Instead of ruling, the Supreme Court has asked for more briefs ( Read more... )

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The 23rd Psalm does not ACTUALLY read "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest motherf***er in the valley!"

Just in case you were confused.

So, John Dickinson at Slate has a weird article up entitled "Heartless: The disturbing glee at Mark Sanford's downfall." Despite his assertions that people are being heartless in their response to the Sanford debacle, Dickinson only quotes one unattributed email backing up this assertion. In addition, he links to 2 writers who are more ( Read more... )