Well, there is a bit of nuance there as well.

I imagine that these people vent about the proselytizing they receive from people of faith. Or the special considerations that faith-based religions receive from both the general populace and the government. There are lot of different circumstances that forge an atheist's personal narrative, but a very good portion…

The reason you feel more drained than invigorated seeing the groundswell of support for vaccines is because you only once feared we were losing this battle—the support actually confirms the truth of the matter.

I've always been amused by the O'Reilly/Stewart dynamic. They rile up each of their respective demographics to hate the other and they're both laughing their way to the bank because of it. They're both charlatans and I'm a bit proud that they can pull off the act so expertly as to fool everyone all the time. …

Haha, that's understandable. For me, I can always tell when it's Patricia or Stephen or Jason writing a review. The rest of the staff is a bit amorphous to me, but those three stick out to me since their tastes are similar to my own with some distinction.

Nature of the best when working for money. Advertisers get into everything. As a good friend once told me, "Integrity just means you have a higher price tag."

Because, in the end, a reviewer MUST make a distinction. It's like weighing the desire to make a PB&J sandwich. You can go through all the benefits and the inherent flaws and consequences and historic significances of making yourself that PB&J sandwich, but ultimately, the reason for all of that trouble is to…

Stirring the pot is fine. It is also necessary when talking about critiques and their importance.

I don't know. It'd be pretty tone deaf to deny it (hell, it's tone deaf to have let it go on for as long as it has), so it's a no-brainer to release this "private" mea culpa, but without having to disclose any real detail on HOW they're going to improve their system.

I read this and I did not read "internal memo" or "leaked memo" as everyone is reporting it. Of course this is my conspiracy speculation here, but this memo reads more like a PR response without the need for having a press release that might receive more scrutiny and have pesky inquiries asking, "What do you plan to…

As a Catholic, it seems more than a bit self-serving to praise your even-handedness on the topic—as most every poster in this particular thread has been—but I felt it necessary to do so. And though some may roll their eyes, the Catholic tradition does have quite a few intellectual firebrands among their number, so it…

As a Catholic, it seems more than a bit self-serving to praise your even-handedness on the topic—as most every poster in this particular thread has been—but I felt it necessary to do so. And though some may roll their eyes, the Catholic tradition does have quite a few intellectual firebrands among their number, so it…

I feel like the two of us must have passed each other by the front of the A&F stores because while I walked inside with friends who wanted to pick things up from there, I never bought one item myself. Nevermind that I didn't have the kind of disposable income that would warrant such purchases; I just never felt…

Haha, so lucky! MY mother was the type of mother that makes me hate mothers.

Ok, I'm not a musician and it occurs to me that writing "duh" a bunch of times isn't the best way to describe something that you hear. So here's a video showing how it works:

Swablu/Altaria. Has clouds. For wings.

Maybe just your friends in game are? Yesterday, I walked into Socrethar's Rise to do my Garrison Campaign quest with my Felguard pet, my Ogre Warrior Bodyguard, and a cadre of fiery imps that pop out of my spells. Sounds like everything's gone, right?

Heart Gold and Soul Silver were actually VERY good about including nearly every pokemon in the Pokedex. The remakes actually tend to have more available pokemon than the mainline games of that generation if only as a selling point. I imagine this same reasoning is why ORAS has such a high number of available…

Differs among servers, of course, but a predominantly Alliance server would only become more Alliance in the past 5 years and a Horde server becomes more Horde. At best, most pvp servers probably have a 7:3 split. I know the biggest ones are more like 9:1.

Yes. The fight for Halaa was very real and present even on PvE servers.