If they keep making adaptions, eventually, hopefully, they will get to the point of adapting fanfic that is actually not written by morons (Harry Potter in particular had and has a truly astounding number of academics as well as a few who got mainstream-published).

The atheistic version of "It's God's will" is, "It's Darwin in action!"

Part of the problem is the LACK of critical thinking - people use science to defend their choices now, but it's just a bandaid. They know science = good and my opinions also = good, so they find the science that fits their opinions. If they actually knew a damn thing about critical thinking they would certainly be…

This. It drives me right up the wall when people understand that "science" is the buzzword for supporting their wackadoo opinions, but have no idea what the scientific method actually is or how it works, or the many, many mitigating factors that can skew scientific research.

I could care less about the breastfeeding issue, but I care very much about people adopting, and I want to wish you well in your process & share my hopes that your baby is home soon.

I knooow. I am not a big fan of non-adult humans generally, but I can't deal with the image of a baby ingesting my blood through my nipple. If I ever had a baby it would be bottle all the way.

Another thing no other mammal does (naturally) is, like, cook its food. Or spell correctly. Or (generally) live past 80.

I really love your username, although I would have to work extra hard when leaving not-snarky comments in order to reinforce that they were, well, not snarky. Luckily I don't leave too many of those.

The second one, mostly, and a little bit that you should read the arguments after you and then pat me on the head for my restraint and excellent citation skills in the face of supreme annoyance.

Girl, if you are ever in DC, you can come over to my house and have an espresso. I will check for bugs and wiretaps and you can tell me everything.

If you want to get into that exact same argument again, let's say for old time's sake, Jezebel's new commenting system has allowed some very passionate people who read R&J back in high school and SWEAR Elizabethans dropped at 30 with regularity, to make their erroneous points downthread without having to even skim…

Actually, under the law now, it is possible (with parental permission, in certain states) to get married much younger than the legal age, and yet how many people you know actually ever took advantage of that ability.

Actually, the "bro" was to urge you to *calm the hell down*. Boy did that ever backfire. Stay tense, bro!

And which Bates are you? My money's on ShinyRuffles.

Your husband is probably contractually obligated not to, but I wish he could write a guest post. I have so many questions, not even about the Duggars (who gives a shit), but about his job in relation to the Duggars - like, has a crew member ever dropped heavy equipment on his foot and sworn, and if so what happened to…

I understand "fashion" is probably not foremost in these people's minds, and that's fine, only it clearly IS important at least to this young girl, which is why I want to take her aside and tell her that wearing a regular t-shirt is better than the tank-top/tee combination merely for looking less weird.

Don't be mad, bro. You want to type, it's your right to type, even if 20 people before you just typed the same thing. Get down with your bad typing self.

I know that Jezebel's new commenting system allows you to comment to someone without looking at anything anyone else has said in response, but you still might give it a try. Your two points, that people died very young (which is only true in a sense - dying at 5 was common, dying at 50 was common, dying in the mid…

I know that Jezebel's new commenting system allows you to comment to someone without looking at anything anyone else has said in response, but you still might give it a try. Your two points, that people died very young (which is only true in a sense - dying at 5 was common, dying at 50 was common, dying in the mid…

To be fair, he did just put video of himself (ineptly) engaging in an act of arson on private property, so we can all cross our fingers and hope for some sort of prosecutorial action. It's not quite as poetic as "All my leg hair permanently singed off after that time I was stupid," but it might actually be more…