The researchers found higher IQ scores were significantly associated with lower scores on five of the six measures of religiosity - all except spirituality.

I’m taking an extra long lunch today. If anyone at work says anything, I’ll just tell them to follow the trail of Xanax crumbs back to the chaise lounge by the pool where I left my purse full of all the fucks I don’t give.

The Coquette

Romney, Schweitzer said, could suffer with Montana Republicans because his father was “born on a polygamy commune in Mexico.

Making Sense Of Sluts, Moms, Dogs, And Other Crazy Campaign News | TPMDC

After the incident, Smoke was treated for Cory Booker exposure. #CoryBookerStories

Newark mayor Cory Booker saves a life and #corybookerstories is born | World news | guardian.co.uk

Somewhere between the time she turns three and her sixth birthday, the odds are good that she will ask you to marry her. Let her down gently.

50 Rules for Dads of Daughters {by Michael Mitchell}

Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement.

Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit

In short – if it’s not affecting you or the people you are responsible to, IT’S NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS, PERVERT.

best of craigslist: re: 'Abnormal sex'

But only the bravest and most elite of all can shart during a marathon and still win.

WORKAHOLICS, THE SHART HALL OF FAME: MARATHON RUNNERS  As a...

Because I work on a computer like normal human beings, I'd forgotten how painful it can be to write in longhand for long stretches of time. I know it's not as bad as digging trenches in the Amazon, but still—it's AGONY. Your neck gets sore from staring down. You get that weird dent in your middle finger and thumb from pressing the pencil too hard. Everything around you starts to smell like old pencil shavings.

What Happens When A 35-Year-Old Man Retakes The SAT?

This is like formally eliminating steroid testing for the first five years of a baseball player's career.

Why Obama's JOBS Act Couldn't Suck Worse | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Focusing all of your organisations efforts into a single goal and failing to consider alternatives IS a terrible idea. Unless the single goal you’re focusing on is 873 KINDS OF TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME.

An Open Letter to Forbes Re: the Leadership Mistakes of the Galactic Empire | Death Star PR

Americans really kick butt at monster-truck competitions, though, so it's not a total loss.

Stevey's Blog Rants: Math For Programmers

As Socrates* said, life is hard. Especially if you’re stupid.

We Have a Winner | Talking Points Memo

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Baseball is a curious anomaly in American life. It seems to have been ingrained in people in their childhood…. Baseball is, after all, a boy’s game, and children are innocent of evil. So even adults who are prejudiced revert to their childhood when they encounter a baseball player and they react with the purity of little children.

Jackie Robinson

Today, we've basically been reprogrammed to think that we need permission from the government to exercise our inalienable rights, when in fact the government is supposed to derive its power from us.

Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water

After an emotional 14-hour workday that included fist-fights between lobbyists and a walk-out by women Democrats, the Georgia House passed a Senate-approved bill Thursday night that criminalizes abortion after 20 weeks.

itsthemusicpeople

Likewise, if you do hire me, I might need to have your employment contracts disclosed to ensure you aren’t paying me less than any male and/or heterosexual colleagues with equivalent responsibilities and experience.

I hereby resign - raganwald's posterous

What matters, and will continue to matter, is the damage inflicted by politicians and officials on women’s daily lives.

Stag Party

The message this sends is, 'Keep your fucking mouth shut.'

Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth's Hazing Abuses | Culture News | Rolling Stone

The system isn't working, and the public knows it.

Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street protests