Inspired by Candidate Cruz’s concerns about the persecution of Christians:

We are not No. 1. Discuss.

To read more, go here. And thanks, DickG., for the link.

A better world with — or without — religion?

The country’s framers were capable of much subtlety when it came to addressing religious freedom. Read what Michael Meyerson says at Huffington Post: The framers saw religion as both a force for magnificent good and unspeakable evil. John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson after both had left the White House, “Twenty times, in the course …

So it’s not just U.S. politicans who can’t say “vagina.”

We’ve covered lame politicians already — elected officials who can’t say “vagina,” but very much want to legislate it — but guess what happened when a U.K. company tried to substitute “vagina” with nonsensical, infantlizing names in their ads? The Brits spoke back. In spades — so much that the company (Femfresh) took down its Facebook …