Agreed, and I think that is the key point that differentiates this universe from most other zombie universes (spoilers for those reading along who haven’t seen The Walking Dead), as well as making the outbreak seem more plausible. My guess is that the virus first spreads like a very contagious, but not very deadly…

I 100% for sure thought someone was going to get bitten in that tunnel. I may or may not have been sitting in front of my computer screaming Get back in the car!!! and then cheering when Nick floored the gas. Followed immediately by screaming Get back in the car!!! when they all went to examine Cal’s “dead” body.

I would like to pass a law that every bill restricting abortions must include additional funding for families who are forced to have children because of those restrictions. I would LOVE to see these politicians try to weasel their way out of that.

I prefer to call that “government so small it can crawl up your ass” (or in this case, your vagina).

Replying to promote your comment. There are some professions that have a reputation for being toxic to women — the oil & gas industry, for example — but we tend to gloss them over because we’ve heard that story before. It’s not new or subtle and there’s no philosophical discussion to be had — just straight-up…

So good! And he gives great hugs to boot! (Not that I should be surprised, but hugging is an underrated skill and his look excellent.)

Also also! More and more business studies are confirming that all-male leadership is terrible because men indulge anger and ego, and they take more risks because of it, while women tend to balance their emotional responses for more risk-averse behavior. Companies with at least one woman in a top-level leadership…

Getting organized and being a movement is great. Dropping the whole thing on anyone’s lap and say ‘fix this’ without some sort of guideline or plan isn’t.

Things the Gilbert School District will not talk to your child about:

I am a writer

I have two guys I regularly try to avoid on the metro, one at my regular entrance and another at my regular exit. There used to be a creeper in my office and I would hide in my cubicle by trying to make as little noise as possible on the rare days he was in the office, so that he wouldn’t realize I was there (he once…

In the spirit of talking about anything other than Food Babe: Who is the very beautiful woman in that .gif?

Yeah, it’s pretty rare to find an American who knows that Gypsy is a derogatory term for the Roma, or how badly they’ve been persecuted. And it doesn’t help when TLC runs shows like “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings” that delight in showing us rhinestone-studded women from trailer parks as if they’re grown-up versions of…

I’m not sure what their character count max is, but sometimes the headline is just about how many characters will fit. “Lady” is 4, “Woman” is 5, “Gentleman” is way too long.

I had a mishmash of Dino Riders, Ninja Turtles, Thundercats, Barbies, Beanie Babies, Archie Comics, My Little Ponies, Polly Pocket, Lincoln Logs, the Spirograph, geometric coloring books from the gift shop of a musuem, and a collection of little porcelain animal figurines from Hallmark that I displayed in cases I…

I think the thought experiments are interesting because we as a culture have such diverse attitudes regarding who has the right to live or die in various situations. The death penalty, war, self defense, abortion, poverty, cigarette/toxic substance abuse, euthanasia...most of us are all over the place on when, how, &…

I used that exact argument once with someone who was fairly open-minded about the conversation, but anti-abortion. His response was that the two situations were hard to compare, because in the unwanted pregnancy, it’s “do nothing, fetus lives / take action, fetus dies” and in the transplant situation the reverse is…

Cheese blocks = bricks of C4 to an X-ray machine (probably; IANAXRM)

Jesus, I hadn’t connected those dots. Thank you for mentioning it. I want to give you 5000 stars and promote the shit out of this comment so it gets some attention.

On the one hand, I am a citizen of this country and I need to know this.