No kidding! They actually DID use that line of reasoning back when seat-belts were first made mandatory. “Butbutbutbut if people are belted in, that’ll give them a false sense of invincibility, and then they’ll drive MORE recklessly!” The logic behind “we can’t protect people from X, because then they’ll get hurt from…

It kind of is, though. That World's Smallest Political Quiz / Political Compass is a great example. They define the opposite of libertarian to be authoritarian, and authoritarians are bad by definition. Therefore, everyone who doesn't want to be an authoritarian must be a libertarian! (Don't worry about that other…

i feel you.

Yes, they said that there was a less restrictive way, and that people could sign an opt-out form, but then, the very next day, the SCOTUS ruled that anybody who objects to signing the opt-out doesn't have to do that either. They deleted their own "less restrictive method" by ruling it too restrictive.

It's Robin and Batman, not Robin and that man.

Not to always be the Cold Hard Science person, but:

Why doesn't Mara Wilson ever recommend my Jezebel comments?

I love you, Rebecca. You shold git mareed. Just not to me.

I keep telling people this. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE MATH BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY LEARN IT - YOU JUST MEMORIZED NUMBERS.

As someone who actually studies the science of how to teach people, all this common-core hate is bullshit. When we were in school, all we were taught was how to add and multiply, like a cook book. We never learned why we were doing it, and that made more advanced math a lot more difficult than it should have been.…

I must be officially an old because reading that first paragraph was such a weird flashback to skipping the first chapter of each of the BSC and Sleepover Friends books. Duh, I KNOW THIS PART ALREADY.

Also, the GF label is for 20 parts per million or less; that's the official standard. I guess that's good enough for allergy/intolerance, but people with celiac can be sensitive down to 5 parts per million. The standard isn't strict enough.

*snickers at the thought of a Dalek saying that.*

One time, I got copied on an email that someone shouldn't have copied me on because it was basically a big rant about me. I was so pissed I sent an email back to all of the recipients that contained nothing but an ellipsis. An ellipsis.

Fixed it.

I really, really wish you guys would put a ban on all links to the Daily Mail website. It's the most fate-filled, lying, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynist website and all you're doing by listing their links here is funnelling advertising money into their pockets. Most liberal / left-leaning blogs in the UK have…