If Pegg feels that strongly about it, why didn't he make Scotty gay? That would have avoided the direct conflict with Uncle George.

Roddenberry went overboard with his vision. Characters weren’t allowed to have interpersonal conflicts on ST:TNG because somehow humans had changed so radically that this didn’t happen anymore.

Or they could have just made Sulu bi.

Northern Ireland is not uniting with the Republic. The island is as divided as it ever was. People still live in separate neighbourhoods, divided by peace walls, with their children attending different schools. Unionists still regularly parade through Republican neighbourhoods, rubbing their noses in the fact that…

I am sorry to hear that. :(

If I wash my hair at night, it is greasy by about 4 in the afternoon.

When my Dad was a kid, he had corrective surgery on his shoulder, and had to wear this big cast. It was summer, and the cast was really itchy, so my grandfather took to blowing cornstarch inside the cast with a little metal tube.

I have fine hair, and unless I wash it daily it becomes this lifeless, greasy mop.

That commercial bugs me. He grew up with a strong connection to German culture for whatever reason, but then dumped it and took up wearing the clothing of a people he has no cultural connection to on the basis of a DNA test?

There were ethnic Germans in Russia though.

And, if there is no way for you to claim native blood, people get creative.

Years ago, we were visiting a small museum in a First Nation near where my Mom grew up. The Curator wandered past and introduced himself. Shortly after that, my Mom noticed some paintings on the wall that were done by a cousin of hers. Not a close cousin, but someone she knew. My Mom was like “Wait? What?” And when…

If you deliberately don’t feed your child in attempt to cause them them harm and they die, then that would lead to a murder charge, rather than just failing to provide the necessaries of life.

The parents didn’t believe he was diabetic, and in the 6 months before he died didn’t buy any insulin.

It’s not abuse, because abuse requires intent to harm. This was neglect, hence the charge of failing to supply the neccesaries of life.

Tammy Duckworth is awesome.

Representative Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs in Iraq, is also at the sit-in.

As soon as they said she didn’t understand cause and effect, I thought “That sounds like fetal alcohol spectrum disorder”.

Yeah, but do we know that the family is even using the correct term to describe her condition? What they are describing up there sounds more like an intellectual disability to me than an LD. For an adult to not understand cause and effect, there has to be some pretty severe impairment.