What's that old saying? She who lives by the bum dies by the bum.

I came away from the article with the same sense. It seemed clear that this person was a fraud and a troll with serious mental issues before the author started contacting her directly. If Hale felt such a pressing need to call her out she could have just built a case from the easily available contradictions in the…

My first reaction to the trailer is why would anyone want to play such an obvious no-life loser? The protagonist isn't glamourised at all and looks like any slovenly forever alone nerd living in squalor who has enough money to buy a trenchcoat and some weapons. I can't even see any element of fantasy fulfillment,…

I thought that would be the winner, but the Sir Topham Hatt one-upped it.

New reality show concept: all of these hucksters should be sent to Liberia, infected with Ebola, and then given the opportunity to demonstrate whose cure works the fastest. The celebrity host can be Jenny McCarthy.

Global warming is the gift that keeps on giving — those right-wing authoritarians not busy denying it are looking to exploit it in the most bellicose way they can.

The only studies Smith and his Know-Nothing ilk want to see are those examining how Jeebus or Galt-like tycoons solve all problems. Science!

What, no John Ringo? Or does he write in too many genres to count as an SF writer?

"Edge of Tomorrow" sounds like the name of a 1970s soap opera.

It's a mystery why she wouldn't want to have sex with this romantic devil.

Definitely not a spoiler if you read the books. I read a few chapters behind as I watch the show, and when I shared it with the people I view the show with they didn't mind hearing the theory.

My first thought, too. Bet some of them will be debtors' prisons.

Elaine May had it down in A New Leaf (1971), as the valet explains things to his newly impoverished employer:

No questions come to mind at the moment, LeVar, but I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate the work you've done in promoting literacy, as well as using your characters in Roots and ST:TNG to promote equality and justice for racial minorities and the disabled. Thank you.

A solid ruling (re-encoding = re-transmission) on behalf of a dinosaur incumbent that's only bought its outmoded rentier business model a few more years. That Scalia & Co. dissented based on half-baked Libertarian dogma doesn't change that.

This makes me very happy ... brings up happy memories of gruesome snowman corpses and Calvin's dad's explanations of various scientific and natural phenomena.

What a class act. But understand, LeVar, this is a tribute to what you and your associates have accomplished with Reading Rainbow over the years. This is real brand goodwill, the most genuine sort, and well deserved.

Yeah, it's not like women's restrooms, which are by all accounts generally nicer than men's restrooms — mainly because my fellow men (#notallmen but damned well #toomanymen) seem more prone to fouling their own environments. Which seems to be one explanation for why patriarchal culture is so toxic for everyone.

This is one of those cases where it's especially smart not to use your true name. MRAs can go a little nuts when a woman who they can identify calls them out with something they can't refute. I'm talking about doxxing, gruesome threats, defamatory comments, and harassment. If that isn't bad enough there's a genuinely…

If the NYPD enforced this policy in Union Square alone, they'd probably be self-funding by year-end.