It's either medicine, or it's not. It either works, or it doesn't. It either demonstrates efficacy in a clinical double-blind trial, or it doesn't.

It is of no relevance whether the remedy is herbal or organic or chemical or mineral or animal or Chinese or Greek or Basque.

It is either medicine, or it is not.

Just *one*, Karl. Just *one* example of a scientist who treats science as a religion. The whole concept is so far beyond stupid and meaningless that it takes a credulous magic-believing moron to come up with it. It is only people who believe in religious fantasies who parrot this bizarrely stupid assertion that science is some sort of religion, and it is evident that they don't believe it themselves.

After all, if science *were* a religion, you wouldn't criticize it, would you? Religion cannot be debated, discussed, or criticized in any way whatsoever, according to the preciously fragile dimwits who propagate it.

So you're being a disingenuous hypocrite into the bargain. This is sort of unavoidable -- as soon as you declare for fantasy and nonsense over science, you put yourself in a position where you have to say unsupportable things, defend insane beliefs, and hand-wave like a stupid incoherent pillock to explain why your position that we were all created by a giant sky fairy makes sense.

For mammals, female is the "default" setting -- males are the heterogametes and it requires some chromosomal and hormonal poking and prodding to turn a foetus into a male. If we were birds, where females are heterogamous (female birds are ZW and males are ZZ, the opposite of the XX/XY pattern in mammals), then it would mean something, biologically, to be female. But for mammals, no. Female is what we are unless told otherwise.

So, it may be contrary to Broadsheet's dogma, but the question "what does it really mean to be female?" is, in this context, utterly the wrong one.

Very, very few MILFs are Cougars. And vice versa.

If you're too lazy and stupid to get the point, which is evident even from the previews, then it's impossible for you to have a point of your own to make. Robert Downey Jr's character is a white actor.

Really, if the previews of a dumb comedy movie confuse you and befuddle you that much, then try something other than understanding things and writing about them for a living. Dumbass.

Yeah, dreary corporations suck. You don't want to work for The Man. So don't. Quit. Survive in some awesome power-of-you way. Great. Well done, you. Yeah, technology makes flex-time ubiquitous and working-from-home easy. So get yourself one of them flex-time-from-home jobs.

Until you do, you'll probably have to do the job you have. And that means the job you *have*, not the one you want it to be.

"What I am looking for, Cary, is for someone to tell me that my ambivalence in this situation is right."

There is a political party which praises you for "praying" and making up fantasy fairy-tale lies to further your hidebound agenda. It's the Republican Party. Fundie wingnut loonies need fuck off and join it and leave those of us who live in the real world alone.

There is a political party for you nutcases with your prayers and magic beans and your petty bigotry and your elf-worship. There is a political party that rewards tiny-minded frauds who like people who look just like them, and prefer silly games that suit their prejudices instead of facts. It's the Republican Party.

Is it that you hate yourself, or you hate the art of writing?

Been a lot of cutting-edge discoveries made in the world of faith lately, have there? "Faithecists have discovered a brand-new way to believe in made-up crap. More at 11."

I thought it was just a minor-league sports club.

Why would it be a Minnesota or Wisconsin accent? It's Alaska.

Does anyone with three neurons to rub together give a shit what a bunch of dimwitted Girls Gone Wild wannabes say amongst themselves?

"Faith" is people dictating that what they think is right just because they say so. Just because Lamott/Palin says so. These people don't care about what is right, what is just, what is humane -- they care about the imaginary conversations they have with the voices in their head. They are delusional, dangerous people with the most aggressive contempt for people who think, reason, and want to do what is right. They have decided. They are right, there is no debate. Lamott and Palin are both equally convinced that they have ongoing magical conversations with Jesus. Funny how he tells them different things, eh? No, not if you're a delusional loony who makes evil, insidious, incoherent lies up and tries to smear them around the political discourse like they meant anything.

Lamott is worse than Palin, worse than Cheney, worse than Bush -- she has all of their bad points but she wraps them in a fake political veneer. Don't be fooled. Reject all religious fundamentalists and all people who think that their internal conversations with magic fairies take precedence over reality.

Is there a question? Is there something about this boring scenario that an outsider should know more about, or care about, or have insight into than the writer? It's not like she hasn't given this matter a great deal of thought.

How do you live your life when the Daily Mail and every publicity-seeking underwear company have such power over you? They can make you do anything. A headline, a silly new product, and you jump up to do their bidding, to respond, to get exercised about whatever vapid stupidity they have planned for you. You are constantly on a knife-edge of trembling insecurity, scanning the skies for any sign of possible offense. And, when the Daily Mail publishes the tritest and stupidest of articles, you're there. Doing your masters' bidding.