Stark said lower rates of male religiousness is a form of risk-taking behavior just as criminality is, and men are far more likely to commit crimes than women. "Any phenomenon that occurs in many and very different social and cultural settings necessitates explanations that are equally general, which tends to rule out most social and cultural factors," he wrote in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. "Recent studies of biochemistry imply that both male irreligiousness and male lawlessness are rooted in the fact that far more males than females have an underdeveloped ability to inhibit their impulses, especially those involving immediate gratification and thrills." ......
Tom's shoes. You buy a pair, and Tom donates a pair to all those skinny under-fed people you see in the Sally Struthers videos so they don't have to walk around barefoot anymore. That's pretty awesome. Because of its customers the company has given over 60,000 pairs away. Now they want to give away 200,000. The shoes Tom sells is actually a redesigned version of the historic Argentine shoe and can be had for around $40.00. ...
"Be fruitful, and multiply," and boy did they. Jim Bob, the man with two first names and Michelle Duggar otherwise known as the family incubator are devoted, following members of their cult of religion. I got to hear a partial phone interview on 107.5 the other day, and they seem rather down to earth. Humbling, it must be when you've got 17 children shooting out of your orifices and running around like Satan's spawns. To top it off clone number 18 is on it's way. To me this is the exact reason why Darwinism shouldn't work. They can't be the brightest bulbs in the bunch if they're popping out a litter of children. Heck, I've got two and we can barely keep up. We praise the lord on a daily basis that a third didn't sink us into welfare and food-stamps for the rest of our lives. We're so grateful for what we have, but 18 bloody children? No freakin way.
I thought this was worth mentioning. Recently (as many know) I suffered from a laptop that became damaged. While I could have manually transferred all the stuff off of it as it was still partially functional, I actually just waited till I got a USB cable to pull the HD. For us as alot of people, our laptop became full of family photos, videos, not to mention several data backups for the websites, and my MP3 collection. I know alot of people take their computers to places like Best Buy where their Nerd Herd charge you unbelievable amounts of money to rescue data off of computers. (I joke not, I looked it up, and the Geek Squad can ask up to $1600.00 for recovery) Now I know in many instances things can damage data, but in my 20 years using computers, if the computer is well taken care of, generally the data on the HD way out survives the physical computer. I have a desktop which has a HD installed from 4 computers ago. It still has AOL 2.5 (before the Internet) and most of my college data on it. ...
The battle over this issue continues. I'm going to have to check back on this story a little later. Normally CNN is pretty good about posting PDF versions of the actual court judgment text. Which I find to be very interesting reading. As always, the forces of exclusion have said that allowing gays to get married would harm "family values." I have NEVER understood this. There are plenty of abusive, wretched, loveless "straight" marriages -- don't THEY harm the value of marriage? OTOH, what difference would a gay couple living down the street make to anyone's marriage? Seems to me this "values" statement is a smoke screen for simple bigotry. Anyway, I hope this gets resolved in favor of all couples that want to get married. I personally don't recommend it, but hey -- to each his or her own. ...
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