The no carbs people are elated.

The elephant in the room is F. Wertham. But he didn't act alone. It's a fascinating period of moral crusaders, rumour panics and general f-ery. As much as I hate what Wertham became it should be remembered that he was a pioneer of providing mental health services to poor and racially segregated communities.

I agree with everything you said except the idea that the strip and the cb are essentially different creatures. The first comic books were collected strips and what we'd think of as anthologies. Also, people were just as invested in the characters and stories of the serial strips as those in comic books. There are…

"Comic books were, historically speaking, marketed to men" I liked her reply but just to flesh it out. Comic Strips and Comic Books were ubiquitous from 1920-1960. The high estimates were that 60% of people (adults, kids, male/female) read graphic narratives daily. What's great about these years was the huge range…

Is it the sign of something wrong with me that I thought it was boring?

The author is skewing the argument as narrowly as possible. Other reasons to hate on GMOs: copyrighting organisms; reducing farmer control of seedstocks; monoculturing; gmo-ing fish that can breed with wild stocks; general personal liberty.

I don't know but you're not vanilla either.

Cured my mid-grade depression.

I must have been the only barathian to get my ass handed to me but to be fair I was new, my friend used a wilding attack when I had no power/influence left to cripply my forced and then a sneaky double march to decimate my last army. I love this game.

Now that I'm an adult we have to schedule things with all of use like a military campaign but it's worth it. It's always worth it.

I played this for years before I read the books or watched the series. It is a devilishly clever game that is very dynamic and involves a lot of player interaction. So it stands up as an awesome game even if it was call: bob's game.

Yea, I get divebombed at my friend's house every year. I try to look terrified because they're trying really hard and I want to make them feel good about their tiny cute selves.

A lot of kids with their bat-like hearing complain about the sound of adults chewing. Mine drives me crazy telling me to stop chewing so loudly.

Just an FYI, for reasons that have to do with sketchy biological science Herion and the ealier Laudanum were thought to be nonaddictive and were pushed as a solution to the addiction problem. A very readable and cool book on the history of opium is Thomas Dormandy's Opium: Realities Dark Dream

Wish I knew. I guess I'll have to read the darn thing.

Making everyone neurotic and fearful doesn't feel like equality to me.

I don't know how they're saying it is "increasing". First generation feminist socialist who studies 'housewives' in the 1970s record stories like this (Meg Luxton comes to mind). It's a classic control move to tie a woman to their partner through the child.

"I really don't think she understands things." Just needed to fix that for you.

That's not weird it's awesome! Best I've seen on the list so far.