At the advice of several individuals, I've done an online search for hostels and shelters in my area. I've found a hostel in a vaguely close location, but all the shelters I've found are about fifty miles away. And some of those are as bad as my parents - they probably wouldn't hit me for talking back to them, but being religious institutions there'd be a lot of pressure on me to convert.



Still, it's not all bad. I've found an interfaith place (their allies include a Unitarian… Continue

Want to know how to program your kids to be mindless obedience machines? Look no further than this book: http://www.gospeltruth.net/children/pearl_tuac.htm

"Let this be a lesson to all of you: ideas are very dangerous things. You are mindless, soil-shopping losers, put on this Earth to serve us."



And the response:



"You're wrong. We are not meant to serve you. I've seen these people do great things, and year after year they've managed to earn money for themselves and you. So who is the weaker species? My people don't serve you. It's you who need us."



Too bad that the original speech was about ants and grasshoppers,… Continue

But I want to have Zac Efron's children, for several reasons:



1: He's stinking gorgeous. Sure, his car in 17 Again had one of those tweeting locks, but the gorgeous makes up for it.



2: I realize that he is an actor, and was paid to do it, but his abstinence speech in 17 Again was beautiful.



3: He's apparently agnostic.



4: There's just… Continue

He's being raised by fundamentalist Christians, but they haven't completely eaten his brains yet:



The other day, I mentioned to him something about evolution and why Young Earth Creationists deny it. "They say that it breaks the Second Law of Thermodynamics," I said, "because for life to become more complex, the Earth would have to have some kind of enormous energy source nearby."



He thought about it for a bit.



In just a few seconds, he responded with the… Continue