Disagree with where Iran draws the line between criminal acts and social/personal impropriety, but I find it hard to disagree with their punitive system.  If a mentally competent adult gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar, goodbye hand.  The deterrent value seems fantastic.

Stars outfits vs Grammy rules.  I guess that's one way to try to increase viewership.

Perhaps the bigger issue is the pressures from peers, family, media, wedding planners, or just plain old self-entitlement and naivete to think that you MUST have the perfect wedding, only to discover that you can't afford for your friends to share it with you.  Like funerals, weddings are an industry driven by profitee...more

Now as far as calling people out and either punishing people for their sins, or saying that their afflictions were a result of their sins, who was that.....?  Oh yes, I remember.  That was the Pharisees, the Jewish religious/political leaders that led the charge to have Jesus killed.

MusicMan, your comments would lead me to believe that you endorse Christianity.  If I remeber right, your god figure, Jesus, spent a lot of time hanging out with rebels, tax collectors, whores, pretty much the corrupt, evil scum of his time.  As he tried to nurture them and improve their lives, I can't seem to think of...more

The RNC did the right thing by throwing them out and condemning their actions.  The actions of these two do not represent the entire Republican party.  If they were a plant, that is also deplorable, but again, the actions of those two do not represent the entire Democratic party.  Reading more into it is the kind of fa...more

Agree that there's a lot of really bad music these days that succeeds more for its marketing and lack of options than for its own quality, but I don't understand saying that they're in it for the money like an insult.  Of course they are.  But if that's such a terrible thing, then I'll wait eagerly by my mailbox for wh...more

Not a fan of his music, but this is not a big deal.  The billions of dollars were spent to get a powerful scientific exploration vessel on Mars.  Mission accomplished.  I have no problem with the idea that a couple megabytes of storage and couple minutes of power (which I think is probably solar anyway, but I'm not sur...more

Right.  I suppose it has nothing to do with Kentucky having very few high-value, lightly guarded, easily accessible targets.