What is ACORN thinking ? If you’ve turned on the TV or the radio or the internet in the last two weeks, you’ve seen the huge shit-storm over the release of undercover video by self-described conservative activists who dressed as a pimp and a prostitute, visited various ACORN offices, and got hilarious footage of ACORN employees condoning and encouraging prostitution, sexual enslavement of immigrant children, and various forms of fraud.

Jerry Coyne and Andrew Sullivan are having a conversation about suffering and religion.Jerry Coyne writes:Humans do not have a unique capacity to “rise above suffering.” Every animal rises above suffering. It has to, if it is to live and leave offspring. It’s ADAPTIVE to be resilient!Andrew responds:One feels as if one is talking past someone.Yes, resilience is obviously built into our genetics, but my point was the unique ability to transcend suffering, not just endure it.Replacing a word with another word isn’t an argument.