You are right of course. It's not anyone's responsibility to teach others to be better allies. I continue to believe though that if someone is well-intentioned and trying to be a supportive ally it may be better to give them a helpful shove in the right direction than a scathing reprimand. Obviously its not for me (or…

When it came out the Racialicious post rubbed me the wrong way for several reasons.

Yep, I was just waiting for the whole "In a world where..." thing to happen.

To be fair, any problems I had with Divergent were more related to world-building than they were to writing style. While the goofy "living by one virtue" thing is hard to follow through on, the plotting, pacing, and characterization were all quite solid. I will recommend it to anyone interested in that genre.

My take on this is you splurge when at least three of the following conditions are met:

Indeed, he's one of those guys who sees and times the ball so well. In BP, if you have the strength of a major league athlete, timing and bat speed is more than enough to hit a ton out. In a game situation, with pitchers mixing up their stuff and trying to locate around the power zone, it's not at all the same thing,…

I think there's an important distinction between saying that someone who is a doctor has the right to fat shame (which is obviously not true as doctors, like all of, us are susceptible both to bias and to simply being assholes) and saying that medical professionals who are involved in research or clinical treatment of…

A guy I work with has a degree in meteorology, but is always careful not to use "meteorologist" as his official title, as that legally requires a certain certification that can only (or mostly? I'm just going off what he told me) be obtained by working for Environment Canada, so while he is a meteorologist by…

Just War is something that has long been associated with Catholic theology, specifically Thomas Aquinas (although I seem to recall that it has its roots in Roman philosophy), but I do not believe it is actually a doctrine of the church. I think it has been referred to by catholic ministers in various countries…

...joins Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Fry as the third non-royal to appear on British currency. She's replacing Charles Darwin...

“Why the fuck is Canada so lazy?”

You've gotta think that ESPN wants Silver to develop proprietary analytics for them right? Between Silver's history with PECOTA and ESPN's attempt a year or two ago with Total QBR, I think the obvious assumption is that the WWL is recognizing that most viewers want to see the stats, but also want to display them in a…

Both the Leafs and the Habs are huge draws in Florida, so that's a part of it. Travel-wise the distance for Florida and Tampa to get to the Northeast is not significantly different whether you're going to Pittsburgh and New Jersey or Toronto and Ottawa. Also by doing this the Metropolitan division keeps historical…

There's so much hate for Clarke in this thread. I mean, no, I don't think she's the best actress on the show either, but that's setting the bar really really high. Her character is also one of the weakest-written, and while she may not have transcended the material she does not bring her scenes down. I think people…

I'm not sure It's a lot of running, but it's a lot of exercise, the first thing to go when I get busy is always the lifting. It works for me, but the broader point is that mixing it up is what I've found to be key. It's not just about running 10k a day or about doing hill sprints every other day it's about trying to…

Or, you know, mix it up. These days I'm playing ultimate frisbee one or two days a week which I count as cardio days, so I try and do a least one more long jog (10k +) and maybe another shorter one (6-8k) on a light day. Mix that in with one or two days of intervals (hills, stairs, or tabata sprints) and a few days of…

Music festivals aside, I have twice in the last few years paid upwards of 50 bucks for a show, Foo Fighters and Black Keys. And countless times (most recently a week and a half ago for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) I have paid $30-50. And although I complained about overpriced tickets about it at the time, in context it's not…

Blasphemy. Seasons 4 & 5 were way better than season 3, not just because of Vince (and the other new characters that nailed it, notably Jess and Luke) but also because of the lack of ridiculous murder plotlines and less screentime for the annoying new quarterback kid.

Very true. That's probably giving Hollywood a bit too much credit to be able to pull that off without making it seem cheap or exploitative, but if done right it could easily be a powerful story. My point was more towards the discussion of "why not make Peter Parker gay?".

Peter's relationships with Mary Jane and Gwen are pretty essential to how his character evolved.