Evangelical purity culture and its attendant cult of “modesty” enthrones male lust, inverting what Jesus taught us. “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away,” Jesus said. But purity culture says male eyes are inviolable, so if a man’s eye causes him to sin, then women’s bodies must be torn out and thrown away — or at least covered up and shut away. Modesty somehow always means women in burkas,* never men in blindfolds.
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The one where Orson Scott Card calls for the overthrow of any government which licenses same-sex marriage.
‘The key move in Judge Jacobs’ opinion is concluding that sexual orientation is a “quasi-suspect” class justifying intermediate scrutiny. This requires the federal government to show that its policy is substantially related to an important governmental interest.’
The Oatmeal explains why people who want to buy content pirate it instead.
“… as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative.” Aaron Swartz will always be a hero of mine for that time he almost freed five million articles from JSTOR.
About Aaron Swartz’s run-in with JSTOR and MIT
Nice quote of Jefferson on patents
The state of mobile privacy and encryption
I can see no point in this except to disrupt the activist groups who use the service.
Bitcoin is not about making rapid global transactions with little or no fee. Bitcoin is about preventing monetary tyranny. That is its raison d’être.
The Seattle airport has a downstairs area away from restaurants with benches, tables, and [a few] outlets.
Some interesting thoughts on lifespan and population size.
I spent three months hiking the northern half of the Appalachian Trail in 2011, covering 1,200 miles from Harper’s Ferry, WV, to the end of the trail on Mt. Katahdin in Maine. I returned in 2012 to hike the southern half (~1,000 miles). I hiked the entire distance in two pairs of Crocs-brand shoes. This page includes the trail reports I periodically made via email, an annotated interactive map, and other info.
A friend organized a project to crochet hats for the homeless (or other cold people) this winter. She gave us a simple hat pattern to learn, and these notes are my attempt to make sense of it and explain to other beginning crocheters
“More than a decade ago, Daniel Suelo closed his bank account and moved into a desert cave. Here’s how he eats, sleeps, and evades the law.” Some day I will buy an acre of desert and live kind of like this guy — only with more computers.
Don’t you just hate it when homeless people are always existing somewhere?