Just saw the film. Loved seeing Stormwind and many other familiar WOW locations done up in 3D cinematic style. The animation of the orcs was excellent. Beyond that, there were glimmers of movie goodness — I particularly enjoyed the buddy-buddy interplay of Lothar and Khadgar in the second half —but it’s hard to…

I gave up on the show after the first season, but I thought Nicole Beharie was great. From the story here, it seems the problem was not that they killed off her character — the actor decided to quit, after all — but that they weren’t giving her juicy stuff to do. Everything else you say, DorthyDandridgeEyes, I agree…

I think it’s funny that you rated my last city — Buffalo (38, which has been shriking since the 1950s and is no longer one of the fifty largest cities in the US) — higher than fast-growing Phoenix (44), where I moved because I couldn’t find a job in Buffalo.

First, parody is parody; parody is not “a joke.” Second, there was plenty of advance notice on this film, and nobody thought it was going to be a loving reading of Heinlein’s source material. Third, while you can claim that the imagery in the film was fascist, it wasn’t all that much different from our own WWII…

“One problem with this piece, aside from it’s alarmist tone, is its sample size.”

"redesigned in the mid-1990s, with America's push for a ballistic missile defense shield in mind. "

I'll figure it out later.

We're commenting on individual Hearthstone hands now? What a world!

An article on fivethirtyeight.com deals in a slightly more technical fashion with WaPo's problematic treatment of causality and confounding variables.

In other words, "Marriage is a protection racket. Pay up, ladies." A fine sentiment from these fine gentlemen.

This is also the story of how much the manufacturing-based prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s owes to government investments in private infrastructure in the 1940s.

There may be a case for trying 17-year-olds as adults; there is no justification for trying 12-year-olds as adults, regardless of what they've done. They're kids and should be treated as kids not because kids are sweet and nice but because they lack the logical skills, the emotional maturity, nor the moral reasoning…

No, it depends on whether or not you can use a dictionary. A fetus doesn't become an infant until it is born.

Facebook is where I keep in contact with friends and family members who I would not ordinarily speak to on a regular basis. Is that too boring and mundane for the likes of you?

I don't think Californians feel strongly about any other state. Coming from LA, I'd say the number one target of locals is New York, mainly because New Yorkers are so hostile to LA. Californians might not be huge fans of Texas, but nobody outside of Texas is a huge fan of Texas.

One thing I don't understand about WOW (I visit now and then, especially right after major upgrades) is why they put so little effort into updating older parts of the game. Keeping the old stuff fresh is something they could be doing on a regular basis between major updates, but they don't. They focus almost all of…

Why does this item from 2010 keep popping up?

Sometimes the link between who you are and how you are treated is a bit clearer: "Marquette U. Professors Criticize Withdrawal of Job Offer to Lesbian Scholar."

I don't think this is all that different from promising children that they will meet their dead relatives in heaven and life together happily ever after.

I had no idea that some women feel discomfort with intercourse after one orgasm. One more thing that men don't know about female sexuality but should. (I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of women were unaware as well.) Another strike against prudish, abstinence-only sex education!