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https://twitter.com/MelodyHensley/status/478723067276169216 Internet Tough Chick. With Twitter-PTSD. She's always toughened up between bedridden 'PTSD' episodes. Which then leads her to say increasingly stupid things until BOOM! the 'harassment' takes her back to her sickbed. Why do I have the sens...

As I understand it, BMI is supposed to be more of a population evaluation, not an individual. Which, if that is correct, would explain why it's not all that good at the individual level. Absolutely. And even at a population level, studies to date have only found major health problems correlating wi...

So, book readers are a bit put off by Brienne taking out the Hound. Show watchers, not so much. I read the books but I actually liked the changes to Brienne's plot, and i think that her taking out the Hound is a very good choice. In the book she basically wanders about aimlessly for most of her que...

I have a BMI of 17.5 but my weight hasn't changed by more that half a kilo either way in nearly 30 years even after starting to take carbimazole for hyperthyroidism. I couldn't get myself above the "underweight" threshold on a diet of lard and HFCS. I like to imagine that it's my brain that burns a...

Going meta on the Brienne/Hound debate, I'm guessing that there's a divide between those who read the books first and those who only watch the show. The Hound is depicted pretty much the same in both, and I think the show and the actor, Rory McCann, did a fantastic job bringing this character to lif...

Science has proven that sexual preferences is, indeed, innate. Genetically you're born fancying girls or you're born fancying boys or both, or neither. But beyond that, I don't know of any material that with 100% accuracy pinpoints why you come to like certain features. My understanding is that con...

I agree. In the book, The Hound, The Mountain, and Jaime (when he had two hands) are the cream of the crop swordsmen in Westeros during the time depicted. Brienne is highly skilled, but not at this level. Jaime regards Loras Tyrell as a peer in the books, and Brienne comfortably beats Loras in a co...

Hits him back? She bites his ear off and spits it out, bashes him several times on the head with a large rock, and pushes him off a cliff. But I'm sure radfems will find something to complain about. In the book, she's depicted as ugly, masculine, and somewhat simple minded. I think the director mad...

Ok, I agree about all the 'fifth horsemen' stuff, but you are downright fucking EVIL if you think its appropriate to put any of the FTB or Skepchick heads on poor Daenaries. I hope she sics her dragons on you! :P Speaking of this show, I actually watched this season finale, even if I never watched ...

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Ok, I agree about all the 'fifth horsemen' stuff, but you are downright fucking EVIL if you think its appropriate to put any of the FTB or Skepchick heads on poor Daenaries. I hope she sics her dragons on you! :P Oh, I assume this wouldn't just be a head transplant. Her body would receive appropria...

(Before someone notices, the pic is inaccurate. I removed a 5th woman between West and Marcotte) I'd do that one on the left. (HER left.) If you mean the smallest one , you have taste. :) I'd kick the two in the middle in the Cnut. That one is Sarkeesian, so you may want to re-evaluate. Although sp...

So, today... He's not the fifth horseman. He certainly didn't step-up to be the fourth after Hitchens died. And as far as I can tell, his ability to be the bully is dramatically shrinking as he tries to lead, but nobody (outside the pitiful remnants of 'the horde') really follows. (Advance warning:...

Despite his hubris, PZ is just not all that smart. He failed at being a top gun science researcher, so he tried to be a leading atheist. That's going easy on him. He not only failed at being a top gun, he flunked out of flight school altogether and is now puttering around as an aircraft mechanic on...

So far, I havenâ€™t said anything that makes skepticism bad; it might be better regarded as a complement to the scientific approach, that clears away the garbage to unclutter the operating field. Unfortunately, the current doctrines of organized skepticism open the doors to pathology, because they ...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/06/18/trademark-board-rules-against-redskins-name/yfZtcihsulMWwqJjX0wtJJ/story Redskins to lose trademark protection on name "Redskins" The logo is still OK though. In other news Cleveland native Chief Wahoo heard mumbling "They'll never take me alive." I'm as...

So where does 'racialist' fit? It seems to me it should be the term to refer to those who believe in racial loyalties but are 'live and let live'. 'Should' has nothing to do with it, it's how the terms actually are used that's important. As I said, I've never heard the term used this way, but feel ...

Little Paul seemed especially agitated over what he perceived as innuendo of a "Lolita" dynamic. The hentai-rape-teen-students-as-sex-mermaids fantasizer doth protest too much! That's his way. He'll take a minor part of something he's criticizing that he believes is especially weak and harp on it l...

[ I did a private dance for him for free video games. I snagged the Bladerunner game, which I still need to play, and an oldie called "Lost in Time". Does Anita Sarkeesian know about this? The use of video games as currency to procure the objectification of women can be a whole new angle for her. ;)

... and others who are 'racialists' (doesn't believe their race is better but believes they owe some sort of genetic loyalty to their race). I've heard the term 'racialist' used in different ways, but never in the way you're describing it here. I think the most common use is to describe a belief th...

Grats to your girlfriend and good luck with the event, Joggersnuts. Sounds like it'll be a beautiful ride. Pics or it doesn't happen! Thanks! It looks like the weather will cooperate and it should indeed be a beautiful ride. I'll have some nice pics on Monday. I almost forgot to post pictures from ...

An interesting thing about 'intent is not magic' is that this idea is more commonly associated with the political right. A common criticism of liberals is that they frequently support policies mainly to show they care about an issue and whether the policies actually work and won't cause more harm th...

Regarding the circumcision debate, it's interesting to see the same rationalizations being used here as in the following article about another rite-of-passage ritual, body scarrification. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27412311 "We are not violating children's rights, we are just showing the chil...

I first saw her on Firefly about 10 years ago, I pretty much had to physically hold my jaw off the floor the entire episode. And this is a show that had Gina Torres and Morena Baccarin as regulars, so I should have been inured to the effect spectacular women while watching. Ahhhh, Saffron. Great fe...

I did a quick search on forensic analysis of handwriting to see if there were simple signs to look for if a document was written by someone trying to fake their handwriting and came up with this: http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/detective-investigator/en/rcmp...

Oh Jesus Christ, the Savior on a Stick, but Matt Cavanaugh's analysis of P.Z. Myers' underage girl fandom is truly a thing of train-wreck wonder: PZ Myers and the Dream Girl I know we keep saying "This is the moment P.Z. irrevocably goes off the deep end", but This is the moment P.Z. irrevocably go...

It's also not about people circumcised as infants, but rather as adults. I would expect them to notice a difference. The question is, how much of it is actually measurable, and how much is what they "remember" it being. For obvious reasons, it's necessary to use adult circumcision in studies that a...

...She has an advanced case of Twitter Disease, where after many years of being relieved of the duty of supporting your statements and just making empty proclamations, you start tweeting out facts from your fantasy world as if they were facts from the real world.... I'm siding with the feminist law...

So. I somehow managed to find a feminist law student. I brought up innocent until proven guilty, and she agreed that it was important. She then told me that the burden of proof for rape should not be on the survivor/victim. https://twitter.com/ellacastle_/status/478684260401168384 Full tweet here i...

For obvious reasons, it's necessary to use adult circumcision in studies that are looking for before/after trends. This study isn't definitive, but is a pretty solid piece of evidence. Delayed orgasm is more a discrete condition rather than a continuous one, such as if they asked about sensitivity,...

It's not absolutely solid, but still compelling. And what teenager would send a letter to a chubby 57 year old man, stating that she'll be legal in a couple of years? Absolute bullshit. Cringe-worthy at best. Jesus, peezus, have you absolutely no shame? The letter didn't actually say that, which wo...

There's an increasing body of evidence that circumcision is associated with delayed orgasm. This study published last year showed an increase in frequency of delayed orgasm from 11.3% to 48.4% after adult circumcision. And while delayed orgasm might not sound like much of a problem, and maybe even ...

I hope this start the Online World War I: 4chan vs the SJW. I wonder who'll win: the people who are the embodiment of online trolling and offending people just for the lulz, or the easily offended schmucks with propensity to psychological problems and delusions of grandeur. I envision it looking so...

In addition, the "reduces sexual function/pleasure" arguments may be somewhat correct, but you're talking about something that's hard to measure objectively. "Sexual pleasure" is a highly individual thing. I made no such argument. Saying that the foreskin is a functional part of the body is based o...

Fake boobs only look good in still photos. Balloons attached to pectoral muscles are just horrifying. And even in pictures, that bolted-on half cantaloupes look is strange. When I see one, I frequently think I should be turned on by this, so why aren't I? Fake boobs look good in clothes, unless the...

PZ links to an article by Jen Gunter, where she is responding to an article by George Will. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/06/16/no-survivor-privilege-just-survivors/ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/an-ob-gyn-s-open-letter-to-george-will-about-his-rape-column At about 750 words, it i...

The bodily autonomy argument is a very cogent one, not a laugh. No, it's crap. Even some of the most basic things we do to our children can have unexpected, life-long (or fatal) consequences. Yet we do them anyway without a thought. So, where do you draw the line on parental discretion? Intentional...

jugheadnaut said (http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=191689#p191689): I refer to him as Greg Dim Laden. Is this original? I cannot recall seeing that before, so it might be. Sometimes, some of us around here (thanks to the guy who used to make Clownfall videos, Goofon , or Getfun , or su...

The argument for bodily autonomy for children is pretty much a laugh.. We immunize our children. We take them to the dentist and make them get their teeth cleaned and and sealed. We get them stitches when they bust open their chins and, in the case of my youngest daughter, it took myself and two nu...

OMG, I totally forgot about Greg Laden in my rankings. He seems to have found his most useful niche and disappeared. BTW, when I think about him, I refer to him as Greg Dim Laden. Is this original? :)

Anyway, he definitely ranks right up there with Zvan.

Says the person who live off of a trust fund. I wonder if that's why she specifically said top .01% as opposed to the standard 1% ... so she wouldn't technically be hypocritical. Although is there any evidence that Ophie is rich? Or does she just have enough means to not have to work for a living?

I third that. While Myers, Zvan, Watson, Benson, Thibeault et al. often make me very, very angry, and sometimes even shock me by how deeply and profoundly thoughtless, inhumane, bigoted, falacious, and hateful they can be, no, I do not hate them. I hold a deep and abiding disrespect for them, and b...

This is really a large part of my beef with religions. How many times have I sat back and listened to hardcore christians laughing amongst themselves at mormonism, or at scientology? Huh huh, they think we're all aliens from volacanoes or something. Their holy book was written by an actual author. ...

With regards to the conversation on the mutilation of children's genitals, it doesn't matter which is worse, only that it is tolerated. None of us would have any doubt that a person who stole a baby from a nursery and had at it with a knife and the baby's genitals in order to appease some demon wou...

I think the confusion started with the term bold face lie, which most people misunderstand and say bald face lie. Die in a fire, anti-beardists! ;) No, I should be nice. My girlfriend is an anti-beardist, which is why I don't have one anymore. I suggest you do a little bit of research on this claim...

Well, I hate to crash their dreams, but... if they do manage to control 100% of the world's food supply, you know what will happen the next day? Governments all around the world will expropriate the shit out of Monsanto's intellectual property. And what the fuck they will do about it? Even the smal...

Truthout.org used to be a good new site, but its been sliding deeper into the radfem dogma swamp. I'm not sure if they have true believers on their staff, or if they're going for the clickbait.... maybe a little from column A, and a little from column B. Now they've got an interview with Mrs. Mansp...

I think the confusion started with the term bold face lie, which most people misunderstand and say bald face lie. Die in a fire, anti-beardists! ;) No, I should be nice. My girlfriend is an anti-beardist, which is why I don't have one anymore. I suggest you do a little bit of research on this claim...

Is Monsanto's reputation as a particularly evil corporation earned? I know there's some fucked up history there (Agent Orange), but are they in fact any more nefarious than most big companies today? The short answer is no. http://thesoapboxrantings.blogspot.ca/2013/05/debunking-anti-monsantoanti-gm...

Oh yeah, the world-class journalist seems to have something against bald people. "... baldly stating ..." That's exactly how that expression goes, Marcotte, you faffing mimsy. I have always used 'boldly' A little research online shows both in use. However I WILL be stealing 'faffing mimsy' that's j...

Is Monsanto's reputation as a particularly evil corporation earned? I know there's some fucked up history there (Agent Orange), but are they in fact any more nefarious than most big companies today? The short answer is no. http://thesoapboxrantings.blogspot.ca/2013/05/debunking-anti-monsantoanti-gm...

And, as I mentioned in my two previous posts on the topic, it's just counterproductive. It will make ritual circumcision more difficult to end here and make FGM more difficult to end in Africa. You define it as counterproductive as based on this claim: Equating it to FGM will only serve to make the...

Does PZ know Watson's against GMO? As far as I remember PZ is an enthusiastic proponent , so if Becca thinks otherwise, he'll have to change his mind. Well, to be fair, she's definitely not an anti-GMO activist and she would likely concede that many of the points made by them are scientifically ill...

Anti-GM Facebook friends are annoying. I remember listening to an episode of Skeptics Guide to the Universe last year and the anti-GMO movement came up. Rebecca said something mildly anti-GMO and you could almost hear the cognitive dissonance gears grinding in her head as she remembered where she w...

While searching for a Zinnia Jones duckface pic, I came across this pic. Click at your own risk. You have been warned. http://imgur.com/L0F99nU I used to not have anything against Zinnia. But I just found out xe is a modderator of reddit's SRS. Asshole. Has no waist. Would not fuck. Is a waste. Wou...

No. My entire position is thus: Both male circumcision and FGM are bad and both should end. End of story, and there you have it, that's all she wrote, etc. Apparently there is something about this otherwise simple and straightforward concept that is incredibly complicated and/or contradictory and/o...

The only reason circumcision is more acceptable is because it is part of our own culture. It is our own blind spot. We have been doing it for centuries, just as some African & Arabic cultures have been practicing female circumcision for centuries. Yes, it's about path dependence. If ritual childhoo...

And this is a show that had Gina Torres and Morena Baccarin as regulars, so I should have been inured to the effect spectacular women while watching. Morena Baccarin Duckface! http://i.imgur.com/XDuBXRp.jpg And some love for Gina Torres as well. http://www.thestylerebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013...

Nonsense. To argue a major head wound is worse than a cut lip is not excusing the cut lip. Or denying that a cut lip also sucks. It's just saying that the head wound is worse. Same thing with FGM v. Circumcision. Both suck, but pretending both are the same is denying reality, and that helps no one....

I do not hate any of them. Amused contempt is the emotion I "feel". How can I hate people who have provided me with so much free entertainment for literally years now? Once I'm down to Marcotte on my list, it really is more amused contempt than hatred for me as well. They do provide me with enterta...

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