Sheer whataboutery. io9 as run plenty of articles equally critical of US and Western stupidity towards the environment - I can actually see one in the "Recommended" sidebar now. I'd rather they brought stuff like this to our attention wherever in the world it happens, myself.

Then came the Orson Scott Card madness? Really?

How dare you conflate true violence - the worst things that humans can do to each other, murder, rape, assault, imprisonment, etc - with tweeting or the ignorance of racism or sexism.

As a fellow SWM, it baffles me too.

We've got to stop agreeing like this, it's a dangerous precedent to set on the internet. :) But you're right again: As I like to say, "Being a bigot is a lifestyle choice, not being gay or black or a woman."

You need to go read what Theodore Beale posted before you chime in on this. Because he's openly advocated for violence against women and minorities.

There's no "potentially" about it, is there? The evidence is right there - land slides, pollution. Only when these new cities slide in to the Earth and hundreds die (if anyone ever lives there) will the international worry ever arrive.

This doesn't surprise me, for the simple reason that Geekdom is not an alternative to the way things are. Rather, it is just another strand of norm culture, but driven to the extremes in every sense. It's a nerdy country club run by socially inept and alienated but still ultimately privileged men run, with all the…

Is it bad that I want Dr. Strange to just be a full-length version of this?

Pretty stupid, but a lot less stupid than places like Phoenix, AZ, Las Vegas and southern California wasting tons of water on all their stupid lawns and fountains and pools in the middle of the damn desert.

As a Portlander, this is dumb, but not as tragically so as it's being described in the media. Yes, wasting water is bad. However, A) I'd argue that returning this water, pee and all, to the Columbia River (which is what they mean when they say "discard") is far from wasting, and B) 38 million gallons sounds like a…

Word.

The thing to keep in mind is tat Portlandia has a lot of homeopaths, and that level of dilution could have turned that urine into a powerful poison. Or cured everyone of urinary tract infections, if you subscribe to the like heals like bulldada.

Libertarianism is a joke, and carries about the same intellectual weight as that of a 13-year-old boy. It also operates at approximately the same level of emotional maturity.

Sure, there's some people that are turned off by this stuff, but the GOP doesn't hang onto the loonies for sentimental reasons. They embrace the social issues wing of the party because they are irrelevant without them. Republican policy boils down to looting the poor to fatten the rich, regardless of the packaging.…