No to diminish the impact upon students of color, but her racist attitude will also do damage to the white students in her classroom, too. It won’t be the direct sort of damage that she will be doing to the students of different ethnicities, but it will be indirect. She will be turning her white students into little…

If your lab doesn’t have the funding to start another study, you may need to produce a publication to justify your prior expenditures - and to point to as a work product in order to apply for more money to run those additional studies. Your preliminary results may be trumpeted from the rooftops, but the results of…

Hey, Kumail Nanjiani is from just across the border in Pakistan! He is a stand-up guy, and funny to boot!

Hey, Kumail Nanjiani is from just across the border in Pakistan! He is a stand-up guy, and funny to boot!

Just remember: lawful and good, not awful and stupid. Both a police officer and a soldier can be lawful and moral without being obnoxious. Sometimes even the best cop has to pull a gun to serve and protect, and a warrior serves as a sword for their state as well as a shield. “My government has authorized me with the…

As a white guy who spent entirely too much time growing up in the South but who was fortunate enough to get out, I am sorry. I hear and appreciate your very justifiable rage and frustration. You are right to call out the privileged for our inaction. Were I still living in a place like that, I’d happily write my…

Yup. Right next door to the crazy-person creation “science” museum.

The Latin American edition en espanol will be Dostinia.

Homeland Security did my training, too. I work for a Federal agency stationed near a major airport. They did not engage in any of those sorts of suggestions about profiling or fears of “political correctness”, out beyond noting that most active shooters were angry white men, but could be any angry unstable person. The…

I want you to know that I understand and appreciate what you are saying. The golden rule suggests that we should treat others as we wish to be treated, and that we should be fair and even-handed in our dealings. Alas, the very concept of honor sometimes feels like an archaic relic from a better time that never was.…

The best futuristic space armour I’ve seen for females lately comes from XCOM2.

They are loud, but you’re not alone. Stay strong together.

Zoolander and not Tropic Thunder? I’m not sure I can trust your cinematic judgement.

You fight with honor - but you always fight. I was a skinny kid who bullies thought would be an easy target in my younger years. You can’t go to adults for help, because the administration was frequently sympathetic to a troubled kid who they saw in their office all the time rather than the straight-A student. I…

Thatwas really powerful and articulated my dissatisfaction with the Snyder Superman films in a way I had not yet actualized. Thank you. I think that the world can still have an optimistic Superman who is realistic but has not succumbed to cynicism; the kind of guy who would stand at Ground Zero on 9/11, and say, “I…

Hey, if you follow the Ghostbusters expanded universe (and the recent videogame with the key four voices returning and writing), Ernie Hudson’s character went on to become Dr. Zeddmore after earning a PhD in folklore.

“Eight months of baby ending with one day of abortion.”

Welcome to America. We like to think we’re the greatest country on Earth. Honestly, there are a lot of good things that we do, but we are positively terrible about things if we can’t find a way to make a buck.

It will be interesting to see how much of the old canon they preserve on Han. He allegedly started out a young idealist Correllian, joining the Imperial Academy to serve in the Navy and bring justice to frontier worlds. He ran headlong into the corruption of Imperial politics, and developed a strong sense of cynicism.…

Speak for yourself. I loved The Cave!