Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 8:53AM | by Otter These same parents pay for programs for their own autistic spectrum kids, children born with brains that are out of the normal run. I know for a fact that they tolerate girls with autistic spectrum disorders in the Girl Scouts. But only some such abnormalities merit their toleration: the compassion has a limit.
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 1:05PM | by Otter
Updated on Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 10:29PM by
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For years I've been meaning to edit a version of the Bible in which the naughty bits are in red: they're as common as the words of Jesus, I think. So imagine my delight when I found this in the mailbag... The clarity and precision of Coogan's insights into scripture are not rarified ivory-tower evasions of the text, but an unsentimental look at what's really there, in most cases.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 3:13PM | by Otter 
Mythbusters is one of the coolest shows on television.
One of their episodes tested the (false) rumor that a cell-phone can set off an explosion at a gas-station.
But static electricity, generated by getting in and out of one's vehicle, can.
The Mythbusters determined by observation that once the pump is running, women get in and out of their cars six times more often than men, creating static electricity build-up that discharges as a spark that ignites gas. Also, spark-generated gas-station fires are only caused 22% of the time by men.
What gives? What cultural or evolutionary quirk makes women get in and out of their vehicles so much more often than men?
Gender, Mythbusters, Sex Roles in Media, Movies and T.V. Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 8:24AM | by Otter 
Editor's Note: This post is about Christian women, and therefore will contain a bit of bad language.
