All that education, yet you still don’t seem to be able to differentiate between the basic error that so many people make - the way marginal tax rates work - from the deeper question of tax code complexity.

The interview with the person who played Jar-Jar mentioned that he effectively took the role from MJ (who later called him). He says that Lucas told him that MJ had wanted the role.

Could we please stop repeating nonsense like this:

Soundtrack gets extra points for the 2016-y interpretation of “Music for 18 Musicians” by Steve Reich.

Could I jplease ust keep my boomer status and also feel nostalgic?

British Airways across the Atlantic still offers free alcohol. Not all you can drink, but multiple small bottles of vino, at least.

Most airports I’ve travelled through have functioning, clean drinking fountains. I carry an empty bottle through security, and spend my $5 on something else besides water.

my #1 complaint about the daily show post-stewart: almost impossible to watch it on a device without flash installed. This is in marked contrast to the stewart era, and means that whereas I used to see many segments of many shows, these days I see precisely ... zero.

the conspicuous absence of the male gaze

The vast majority of Americans would classify winter in the Great Lakes area or New England as incredibly cold. Chicago is the only really big city in that zone. Waving my hands around, I’d guess that 80% of Americans live somewhere that is “significantly” warmer during the winter than S. Ontario.

Please re-read what I wrote. Vancouver was listed as the exception. And yes, Vancouver is lovely and I’d move there in a heartbeat if I could.

Think of somewhere in the continental USA that you consider really cold. Really cold. Anywhere.

The shelters are not made by Ikea, but by BetterShelters.org.

The donation cost is listed as 14700 Krona. That’s about US$1686. The economics are not going to work as a buy-1-donate-1 program, I think.

I did not realize that we were having a scholarly discussion rather than an exchange on a jezebel comment thread.

I did not equate the Arabic world with Islam, so I see no need to identify specific religious affiliations with particular tasks. Cultural preservation requires more than just translation. The point to make is nothing more (or less) than that our current scientific and medical understanding of the world owes a great…

Wow, I guess we can all be grateful that we can continue to use paper and gunpowder with nary a thought to our behaviour. Nothing like “culture” from a civilization that we never colonized or dominated. Praise be to China (and our wise ancestors who never managed to take it over - I mean, imagine if they had! Blowing…

Not only that. The Arabic world acted as the repository for the mathematics science of the Romans (and before them, the Greeks) as the Roman empire collapsed. They not only preserved it, but continued to develop it: many important ideas in mathematics, medicine and astronomy (to name just 3 areas) date back to…

One definition of “afford to have children” implies “able to live with only the equivalent of 1 full time working parent”. I’m not speaking for or against that definition, merely pointing it out.

Jia emphasized: