There are more religiously unaffiliated people in the U.S. today than ever before. Starting in the 1980s, a variety of polls using different methodologies have come to the same conclusion: people who do not identify with religious labels are on the rise, perhaps even doubling in that time frame. Some call them “nones”: agnostics, atheists, deists, secular humanists, general humanists, and people who just don’t care to identify with any religious group. It’s not exactly correct to call them nonbelievers, because some still have faith and spirituality in some sense or another. A 2012 Pew study noted that 30 percent of these people believe in "God or universal spirit" and around 20 percent even pray every day. But according to the latest research, Americans checking the “none of the above” box will make up an increasingly important force in the country.
Some call them “nones”: agnostics, atheists, deists, secular humanists, general humanists, and people who just don’t care to identify with any religious group. It’s not exactly correct to call them nonbelievers, because some still have faith and spirituality in some sense or another. A 2012 Pew study noted that 30 percent of these people believe in "God or universal spirit" and around 20 percent even pray every day. But according to the latest research, Americans checking the “none of the above” box will make up an increasingly important force in the country.
After playing a bit of Netanyahu's fearmongering speech and warnings that Iran is about to get a nuke at any moment and reminding the viewers that we've been hearing this exact same sort of rhetoric from him for the last nineteen years, Stewart also reminded us of just how terribly wrong Netanyahu was on invading Iraq and taking out Saddam Hussein. [...] Netanyahu wrapped his speech up and it was time for another ten minutes of applause. Whether Netanyahu achieved his goal of sabotaging a deal with Iran or mistakenly opened up a riff in the U.S./Israeli relations, one thing is certain. The in chamber response to this speech was by far the longest blow job a Jewish man has ever received.
Westboro Baptist 'Protesters' Can't Find Spock's Funeral. Live Long And F**k Off, Douchebags, by Retroactive Genius A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years, by Pakalolo Sharia law: North Carolina Republicans empower magistrates to refuse to marry blacks, Jews, gays, by DocDawg<
A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years, by Pakalolo
Sharia law: North Carolina Republicans empower magistrates to refuse to marry blacks, Jews, gays, by DocDawg<
[W]here you buy Girl Scout cookies determines which ones you get. There are two bakers. And they make two very different Thin Mints. Orange County gets the crunchier Thin Mints, while Los Angeles gets the smoother ones; Dallas gets Samoas, but Fort Worth gets Caramel deLites. Most of Florida eats Tagalongs, but Orlando gets Peanut Butter Patties.
Orange County gets the crunchier Thin Mints, while Los Angeles gets the smoother ones; Dallas gets Samoas, but Fort Worth gets Caramel deLites. Most of Florida eats Tagalongs, but Orlando gets Peanut Butter Patties.
Roy Peter Clark, vice president and senior scholar, Poynter: “My only grammar peeve is with crotchety people who try to impose their historically incorrect prescriptions on the heads of innocent writers. Among the worst crotchets: ending sentences with prepositions; beginning a sentence with and or but; splitting infinitives. In the spirit of Mr. Spock, I would encourage writers to boldly go where grammarians would keep them out.”
The British retailer of the dress that whipped the internet into a frenzy last week—is it blue and black, or is it gold and white?—has big plans to cash in on its newfound fame. [...] A 2007 investigation into Indian garment sweatshops by the British newspaper the Observer found children making clothing for Roman Originals and another UK retailer on the outskirts of New Delhi. While uncovering "a network of mud-bricked sweatshops" used by Indian garment makers, Observer journalists Dan McDougall and Jamie Doward discovered "dozens of children cramped together producing clothes for the UK." One of those sweatshops, the newspaper reported, was making garments for Roman Originals.
A 2007 investigation into Indian garment sweatshops by the British newspaper the Observer found children making clothing for Roman Originals and another UK retailer on the outskirts of New Delhi. While uncovering "a network of mud-bricked sweatshops" used by Indian garment makers, Observer journalists Dan McDougall and Jamie Doward discovered "dozens of children cramped together producing clothes for the UK." One of those sweatshops, the newspaper reported, was making garments for Roman Originals.