So, not so much the empowerment of a heroine as the emasculation of a hero.

Shhh! Don't ask good questions on a blog, man!

It's a UGLY planet, a BUG planet!

I'm heading for the skating rink right now!

Wise.

Also, "staff" is redundant, since a Bo is a staff. Kind of like saying you are fighting with a staffstaff.

Oh you.

It was very common in the mid-1960s while I was in elementary school in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Cute article, but much like calculating how much Greek Fire was used to destroy Hiroshima.

OMG, run for it!

Word!

Yes!

I thought it was just going to recommend suicide. Perhaps less drastic, than that, though.

Reminds me of a short story I read years ago that postulated that alligators were alligators with congenital heard defects. A surgeon corrects the "defect" by extending the vestigial ventricular wall in an alligator's heart, turning its three-chambered organ into a more mamalian/avian four-chambered heart, with the…

That is something completely different.

I have been there, back in the 1980s (Sadat was President for Life until he was made unalive in '82).

I would say the most important maneuver Curiosity must make is the landing. Any touchdown it can role away from, though, and I will be ecstatic.

And of course, Amundsen did not have to contend with the giant electric penguin!

Saw a movie the other day, "Faces in the Crowd" in which the star (played by Mila Jovovitch) suffered just this sort of blindness. Nice premise, and interesting depiction of the illness (characters were portrayed by different actors from moment to moment) in an unfortunately forgettable film.

And only pay them in bullion, by gosh.