In a post titled "The depravity of Major League Eating," William Saletan makes the argument that competitive eating - cramming 68 hot dogs down one's throat in a matter of minutes - is somehow like porn. But it's not.

Slate's William Saletan is criticizing Pam Tebow for her message that women should continue their pregnancies even if it threatens their lives. In the process, he seems to identify a special category of "good," pro-life abortions.

Therapists shouldn't try to make gay people straight, said the American Psychological Association yesterday in its clearest denunciation yet of so-called "reparative therapy."

Several readers wrote in today to tip us to a video of Beliefnet's Steven Waldman and Slate's William Saletan discussing the idea of paying pregnant women to carry their babies to term in order to give them up for adoption.

My Jewish grandmothers would love to read this "Jewgenics" article, where Slate's science guy William Saletan discusses the biological and sociological back-up behind the Jew grandma-approved stereotype that the chosen people's intellectual prowess is above the average and ponders whether Jews are a race, culture or…