It would be very interesting to start seeing multi-cultural versions of Captain America since not everyone who lives here is a WASP. People would probably call it pandering, I'd call it being literal.

What about "devolved" or "devolving", as if evolution has a direction?

With regard to "theory," I actually have a problem with the prescriptivist view of language maintained by most of my colleagues (I'm a scientist) that denies the way people use everyday language. Take a look at the literal dictionary definition of theory: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the… Are 6a and 6b…

Some of this just trades on the slippage between terms of art and common usage. When a term of art overlaps with a common word, it isn't wrong for someone to use or understand that word in its common meaning rather than its term of art meaning. Proof, for example, means something rather different to lawyers than to…

If there was room for 11, I'd suggest "Energy". See: any new-age bollocks archive for its egregious misuse.

How about "people use 10% of their brains". Not true, and sick of hearing it in movies.

Never understood the 'homosexuality is not natural' argument. We should be a-ok with all the other unnatural things we do, but there is were we draw the line? Why? Especially since doing that does nothing but make life more miserable for our fellow human beings?

No, not a bad thing. Just something that might color the numbers a bit. As bad as this book is, I can almost guarantee you there is something even worse that has a three-star rating on Goodreads.

Alright, if I may play Mr. D. Advocate for a second, I'd like to point out that they did manage to complete a book, with an actual story, good or bad. They're 16 and 18 respectively. They get kudos for actually writing something to completion AND making it a genre story. If its as bad as people say, then I'm willing…

Though honestly.... Every crap book has some good ratings, enough to get it past two stars.

Well, no. They'd look like this article, which gives details but only after a polite spoiler warning. Which is fine. Keeps the spoiler off the front page so you only see it if you click on the article. That's all us spoiler whores ask for.

WTF is up with people in PA and CT searching "haunted"? And "racist" isn't unique to Louisiana. Tennessee has "racist" as well on the map.

One of my rules of life is this: everything other people do makes sense, to them.

Mildly appropriate:

I call fake. I cannot believe that Beiber would use the correct form of you're, and not just UR.

Well, the texts do fall into the Too Theatrical to be True camp.

"As soon as a person does great things, the actor is more than willing to proclaim all the inborn traits they have that made that greatness possible. They alone are responsible for their achievement."

That's why the Uber-wealthy think of themselves as the job creators and think of the poor as lazy and unintelligent.

Empathy and other perspective taking exercises probably also diminish actor/observer asymmetry. Without such skills most psychologists would likely end up telling everyone what dumbasses they are all the time. Not to mention the toll it would take on most substantial long-term relationships. Thank Cthulu that parents…

Yep. I thought a lot of the criticisms of the way Moffat wrote women were unfairly harsh.

Then I rewatched some Russel T Davies era stuff and realised "Ohhhh yeah."

There's lots of very fair criticisms you can make of RTD's writing, but he worked so hard at making the cast a diverse mix of genders, ethnicities and…

Women, believe it or not, are allowed to be flawed and imperfect.