It's "innapropriate" for a male to give live birth, so... let's not follow that logic as a rule of thumb. It's not very .... appropriate.

Amen. Don't expect most spoiled and coddled americans with elevated ideas off cultural relativity to understand the fact that other countries do things differently when it comes to security. They don't mess around, and if they do it is usually only a result being aware other countries are looking at them and…

We had a Civil War once. If Gawker had been reporting the news, then Abraham Lincoln would have been portrayed as a monstrous murderer of his own people. War is hell, and Civil War is even more hellish. But the alternative sometimes only exists in a fantastic utopian dream. Unlike our american ideas of imagined…

You are probably correct. The NS is only a magazine, after all, and not a scientific journal. It would be the equivalent of citing Natgeo in a study that didn't involve "red" photography - or whatever the term is.

THX-1138. So....peaceful.....

Thank you! :)

As someone who skipped the Potter Universe, how IS it pronounced? Help a noob out, yo.

Brent, the first attested usage of "hair of the dog" as part of a cure for a drunken god comes from an Ugaritic text from around the 13th century BCE (the text is KTU 1.114 for the technical name of the tablet, more commonly called "El's Drinking Feast". See text here: http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/fe…). This is the…

You may be correct, but try this experiment: ask any younger person of the current online generation what their views are on current "politically correct" ideas. Then - and this is the important step - ask them to justify those views and then ask them how they arrived at their justifications, IF they are even able to…

LOL - of all the things to cause stress in a relationship, being an internet troll is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's the equivalent of divorcing your wife when you find out she teabags opponents in Halo online. Counseling? LOL at people. "Oh no! What if he trolls me and my daughter someday? I already feed…

Wow. I'm surprised Gawker is reporting on something they have been engaging in for years themselves, as well as the majority of random Internet users. welcome to the Internet, where no filtering is done to weed out the uninformed. everybody can voice their own stupid little opinion, rather than having to earn the…

You're a filthy liar! You... you KILLED MY FATHER!

That is still not reasonable. 5 dollars to basically rent a streaming, latency-prone game for 4 hours? No. When compared to the amount of time a full purchase would get you (you know, years and years), that's not reasonable in the slightest. They are basically charging you the same as a full purchase, just broken up…

Best time in Destiny: upon meeting another player I had to perform an elaborate seduction ritual by dancing before him and bowing to him profusely, at which point he invited me to his team. we then had the good fortune to both have microphones to chat, and this made the experience much more helpful and we performed a…

AMEN. I didn't even watch the trailer when I read that she was in it.

Lady Gaga is in it. No desire to even watch the trailer now.....

I always cite Qoheleth, that cranky bastard, and his comparison of humans and animals and his thoughts on the then-growing idea of an afterlife. They all came from the same place, they all have the same breath, they all die - who the hell knows whether one went up or down (his way of saying we were arrogant to even…

Very imperfect. a much better way would be a method to access the Kindles memory of what pages the person actually read through! Surely, this can be done.

You made my day ha ha. The interwebz are yours, sire!

I thought the same thing, but then said "the boy who cried wolf"...