Well, yeah. They had to hire people who would agree to those conditions. Honestly, you’re not getting the cream of the scientific crop that way. What you’re probably getting is a whackadoodle group of nutjobs who just made it out with a 2.5 GPA because they have serious social/psychological problems and no sense of…

I think it was the lack of comic-bookishness that turned me off to Arrow in the first season. With more of that, and with a certain Mr. J. Constantine planned to show up this coming season, I do believe that I shall go back and start watching again. The question is... Can I just jump back in, or do I need to do a…

Most of these comments are much more fun if you imagine they are part of a discussion among actual wizards. ;-)

I thought of “Once More, with Feeling’s” musical demon... ;-)

Have you read L. Neil Smith’s series?

Yes!!!! I love those books. I couldn’t even finish the first of the Crispin books. Found myself skimming boring sections. Who decided that Solo’s backstory should actually be a Hutt trilogy in disguise? Ick.

Heh. Yeah, I know. When it comes to him, I think my instinct to stick up for an underdog kicks in sometimes. I’ve just never come away from one of his movies as infuriated as some people seem to be. I’m like, “That was somewhat entertaining and better than ‘Dumb and Dumber’ any day...” ;-)

I’m of the opinion that with most species it’s been more of a symbiotic thing — not at all one-sided. We ride horses and not zebras because horses have been happy to go along with the concept; zebras are just to “ornery.” Looked at this way, domestication is not slavery but a beautiful partnership. Even animals that…

Keyword being mixed. :-)

Yup. I’m a happy omnivore, but it’s factory farming that I object to (not only for animal welfare reasons). So I try my best to avoid supporting that, at least.

Interestingly, in some places/cultures, eating meat is the privilege. It’s all relative.

I kinda’ thought the same thing. Nothing worse than a cat owner telling me his/her pet is also vegetarian. Cats are strict carnivores, period. You may keep it alive on a weird vegan diet, but its life will be cut short and it will not be healthy. Even dogs need to eat meat, though they are more omnivorous after…

As I was reading this article, my husband and I were speculating that dogs known to run off from time to time are probably those less enthusiastic when it comes to greetings. If intense greeters are those less comfortable with being apart, it would only make sense that those who are clearly more comfortable with it…

The more cat people I talk to, the more I get the feeling that the species is in a state of evolutionary transition. Possibly similar to that of dogs at a similarly earlier time in their relationship with us.

Didn’t need to teach my Lab: When we come home he grabs the nearest toy and prances around with it showing off. We catch him and give him scratchies while he licks the air in our direction. But you can’t hang onto him. He has to do his celebratory dance. It kinda’ makes you wanna’ dance, yourself! ;-)

That was my idea of a compliment, actually.

It struck me as simply a slightly long episode of the The Twilight Zone.

So very much worth it. Other than the crushing sense of defeat you feel at the end on realizing that’s all there is. But if you went through “Firefly,” then you can go through this; it’s not quite as bad as that was.

Haven’t watched Arrow since the first few episodes. They’d sure as hell pull me in with this. I’d watch Matt as Johnny just about anywhere!

Poor Bones. Her head is gonna’ splode.