Considering that it's less toxic than salt, contains less sodium than salt, and that in most cases people who claim they have MSG reactions have those reactions with placebo (and also fail to have MSG reactions when given MSG without being told), I definitely don't mind using it in my cooking.

My father said it well a couple years ago: Everyone is crazy and statesmanship is dead.

True, but I didn't really feel like quibbling over that point since Republican primary voters are significantly more likely to be Republican than otherwise.

Damnit, link didn't go through when I copied it from the misdirected reply: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/02/clinton-rubio-lead-primary-contests.html

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You quoted it yourself when you quoted the update to the article: "Also, only Republican voters were asked the video games question, which might explain these breakdowns."

This says more about the reliability of the sample than anything else. First, 3% of 800 people identify themselves as liberal— that's 24 people. Second, since only Republicans were polled on this, these 24 people are Republicans who consider themselves liberal.

He's also stated in the past that he's interested in both cultivating younger talents at Nintendo and leaving room for that talent to grow.

He'd also do pretty well in narration and voice acting, I think.

I'm in agreement— if I'm buying a game I generally prefer to buy new, but from time to time I'll pick up an older game used (if I can't find it new for a better price online). If the rumors about the next XBox requiring an always-on internet connection and preventing the usage of used games are true, I'm not…

Foot binding is all the rage lately.

The only thing that bothers me while I'm playing the game (with Japanese audio because Pea is so much cuter in Japanese) is that Oliver seems to be one of the only characters in the entire game whose name wasn't changed for the English localization.

The character being played in the video is a male when this person appears. The player character flirts with this person. Game currently allows only heterosexual flirtation. NPC in question is therefore female.

Yeah, if studies of distracted driving show that talking on the phone hands-free is just as distracting as talking on a handset (and sometimes even as distracting as texting), then in all likelihood this is plenty distracting, too.

Also the fact that all the swirls and whatnot that point you to that bizarre belly-buckle guide you straight toward the crotch via a sort of visual inertia. Your eye hits the buckle, then it's like you're desperately grabbing for purchase on it while your eye continues inexorably on...

I so want you to have called yourself Professor of Boobages. It doesn't make sense, but it seems so right.

Won't be long before they start looking to particle physics for their names. The flavors of quarks lend themselves quite well to naming Pokemon games.

I don't see why he has to do 8 or 10 at all. It seems to me the story he is telling is the story of his rise and fall, so presumably he could well end it at messing up the world. The story of him fixing the world can come later. And we'd get more Kvothe that way, so we all win.

Yeah. Rory's running gag is a closer fit. I always thought it was amusing that on the one hand he died or almost died every episode he was in, and on the other hand he's the oldest living human in existence.