Thank you, I thought it was just me! :-)

I like Game of Thrones. I can't wait for the part when Paul Atreides rides Sandworms through the Wall. Oh wait a second...

Fair enough - if one's goal is to only be "productive". Is there not a time to criticize ever, in your eyes? We do have fee speech, and with that comes the ability to do that. I wouldn't have gotten very far in my career if I had only been fed "positive" judgments on my behavior and actions. But that's a specific…

I agree with your sentiment that generalizations are not the way to go. As you say - everyone is different. At least this article is trying to see both sides of the equation.

Dora, I think much of it has to do with a double-standard. One side decries the "objectification" of women as a bad thing that needs to be stopped (whether this is in advertising, scantily-clad female protagonists, etc.) - it reduces women to "objects"; while a segment of females actively "empower" themselves by…

If I've learned anything from Looney Tunes, it's that my large piano can be used as a deadly weapon, given that it'S hoisted up in the air first and then allowed to drop on someone. And that the link between violence and music was best illustrated by Bugs Bunny and his rendition of a Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz…

Makes me think of the attempts on Baruch Spinoza's life after he wrote a certain book that happened to offend a rather large group of religious people which ended up being one of the most influemtial works ever penned in the last 500 years. Or the story of Erasmus' critical Greek edition of the New Testament which…

Ha! I was under the impression that this was the actual method of taking the old man down, but it wasn't publicized due to the secrecy involved in the new Avengers-Inspired Archer-Stealth SWAT Initiative (that's right: ASSWAT).

"Read Aloud" is not a new feature - it's been available for a while, but poorly implemented (for example, if you use your phone as a book-reader and keep it in your pocket like I do when working, turning the screen off was always an issue). EZPdf Reader has the best "Read Aloud" functionality, and there is a simple…