This is why I particularly enjoyed "Gladiator;" Ridley Scott really knows how to portray a 'lived in' world in his films.

Gonick's books are brilliant!

Is that supposed to be funny or something?

About drugging them- I was on a flight from Indianapolis to Istanbul and a woman gave a bunch of liquid benadryl to her kids who looked to be about 6 and 8. They spent the rest of the flight intermittently vomiting on her.

I wish more people aspired to the notion that one's perfume or cologne should be noticeable only at close proximity. Nothing like walking into an elevator and suffering through eye and sinus-burning 'sharing' of someone's scent.

Broseph? So, when you're not quoting John Gault, do you quote the Blue Power Ranger?

Funny, you use some Google Latin about caution when in fact you write lacking facts. The abuse my clients has suffered is far more than 'shouting.' And I guess I am a bit of a white knight; I've taken VAWA cases for pay, but also when I worked for a non-profit, charging a nominal fee. Now that I make a comfortable…

Seriously, what a sad life. We're the first generation in the history of humanity to be able to communicate with the vast majority of other people on the planet, and you're going to use that technology to make juvenile statements to try and provoke some kind of heated reaction?

And yet a strange recognition that the unearned privilege of being a white, straight, Christian, American-born man was built on '500 years of mistreatment.'

If you're not just a pathetic troll, you're a pathetic excuse for a human being. I'm a guy and also an immigration attorney. I've used VAWA to help both women and men who had no protection under state laws.

+1 for use of 'lickspittle.' Yeah, I wonder if there's some doctor or former college athelete in LA who sees this kid's picture and think, "Gee, maybe I shouldn't have been a sperm donor for beer money when I was younger."

And what about Sean-Did He Pee-Piddly-Pooft the Magic Dragon-Sean John- Combs? Does he even know what to call himself?

I think that's a usage divide between people in the US and the UK. In the US, "Asian" tends to mean "East Asian". Technically, French people are Asian- where is the ocean between the Asian mainland and the so-called European continent? This is done all over the place. When people talk about North American (as, for…

Thanks for reminding us all how trivial it is to worry about graying hair.

Exactly. Which is why all bathroom doors should open outward, without the need to touch a handle.

I think that I read that the mother of one of the guys who gang raped and fatally injured the woman in India said that her son should be executed for his crimes.

So I guess this old white guy needs to STFU:

If you read between the lines?

The guy doing the Barsoom stuff is right with the nudity, but Burroughs wrote that because the Barsoomians were oviparous, the females, including 'human' ones, had very small breasts, not ones that look like watermelons bolted to their chests.

It's obviously not a prediction so much as a communique from the future, given by Strieber's alien friends.