Missouri Republicans use rare method to stop Democrats 39-hour filibuster of transparently anti-LGBT bill.

Last updated on: March 9, 2016 at 10:08 am By JT Eberhard

Missouri Republicans have been trying to push through a “religious freedom bill.” I use quotations because it takes America’s usual prohibitions against discrimination and suspends them for a couple arbitrary reasons: The motivation is religious The person is gay (as religious objections to serving, say, Mexicans or black people still wouldn’t fly) I hear Christians talk about how their religion is one of love, but whenever Americans want free license to discriminate they almost always seem to be Christian. Weird. It’s... Read more

Last night Bernie Sanders pulled one of the greatest upsets in political history.

Last updated on: March 9, 2016 at 9:41 am By JT Eberhard

Most polls in Michigan had Bernie Sanders trailing Hillary Clinton by around 20 points, a usually insurmountable lead. The usually reliable Nate Silver even gave Hillary a 99% chance of winning the state. Then the very, very unlikely happened: Bernie Sanders made folks like me eat a stack of humble pie on Tuesday night. He won the Michigan primary over Hillary Clinton, 50 percent to 48 percent, when not a single poll taken over the last month had Clinton leading... Read more

Update on my mental health: adjustment period.

Last updated on: March 9, 2016 at 9:31 am By JT Eberhard

In life you have to take the bitter with the sweet. The sweet since starting back on my meds far and away exceeds the bitter! I feel great. My mood is consistently good. I feel my brain trying to make me ruminate and/or depress me, but it’s far beneath the surface and easy to ignore. One of the bitter parts is that my body has to adjust. Yesterday was the worst of it. I slept about 12 hours, finally woke... Read more

MORNING HAPPINESS: The leap of destiny.

Last updated on: March 9, 2016 at 9:19 am By JT Eberhard

Good morning, all! 😀 View post on imgur.com Read more

Anti-vax parents arrested after their infant son dies of meningitis. They tried to treat with maple syrup.

Last updated on: March 8, 2016 at 11:15 am By JT Eberhard

Two Canadian anti-vax parents are in jail after trying to cure their son’s meningitis with, among other things, maple syrup: Two Mormon parents who own a nutritional supplement company are accused of letting their toddler son die from meningitis because they tried to treat him with home remedies instead of medicine. David and Collet Stephan have pleaded not guilty to charges that they failed to provide the necessities of life to their 19-month-old son Ezekiel, reported CBC News. Prosecutors in... Read more

“Miracle cure” for AIDS, autism, cancer, and more being sold by Canadian church is actually bad for you.

Last updated on: March 8, 2016 at 10:47 am By JT Eberhard

An online church is selling a miracle cure, filling people with hope that they could be cured of AIDS, their loved ones could be cured of cancer, or that their children could be cured of autism. It turns out it’s nothing more than a mixture of bleach: A diluted industrial bleach mixture — touted by an online church as a miracle cure for everything from cancer to HIV/AIDS and autism — is being promoted and sold in Canada, despite Health Canada... Read more

Group of Pakistani lawyers working to ensure all those guilty of blasphemy are executed.

Last updated on: March 8, 2016 at 10:37 am By JT Eberhard

Reuters has an article about The Movement for the Finality of the Prophethood. They’re not happy people: A little-known alliance of hundreds of lawyers in Pakistan is behind the rise in prosecutions for blasphemy, a crime punishable by death that goes to the heart of an ideological clash between reformers and religious conservatives. The group, whose name translates as The Movement for the Finality of the Prophethood, offers free legal advice to complainants and has packed courtrooms with representatives, a... Read more

MORNING HAPPINESS: Sleepy baby otter.

Last updated on: March 8, 2016 at 10:17 am By JT Eberhard

Man, so sorry for the late start. It’s the second time I’ve gone to bed before midnight and slept straight through til 11am. New meds, they’re an adjustment. On the upside: I feel fantastic. My mood continues to be incredible, by which I mean it’s probably normal and normal just feels that good to me. So here’s my spirit animal for today: View post on imgur.com Read more

Ohio abortion clinic vandalized with a threatening message by people who don’t know moral up from down.

Last updated on: March 7, 2016 at 3:35 pm By JT Eberhard

Last night an abortion clinic in Columbus, Ohio was vandalized with a threatening message: Vandalism at Planned Parenthood’s East Columbus Surgical Center is an example of the alarming increase “in vitriolic, hateful rhetoric” over reproduction rights, the organization said. Someone splashed red paint on the front door and painted “SATAN DEN OF BABYKILLERS GOD SEE ALLLL (sic) Mark 9:14” on the front of the center at 3255 E. Main St. sometime overnight Sunday. Yes, all done in the honor of... Read more

Christian missionary who molested several children sentenced to 40 years.

Last updated on: March 7, 2016 at 1:23 pm By JT Eberhard

Two years ago I wrote of Matthew Durham, a missionary who was arrested for molesting several children at the Kenyan orphanage at which he volunteered. His defense failed, which is unsurprising since, at the time, his defense included claims that voodoo was used on him to make him molest the kids: “The events that occurred in Kenya the last maybe five six days that Matt was there frankly reveal some sort of pseudo-tribal psychological voodoo practiced on him, including confiscating... Read more

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