I don’t mean to be flip about this, but welcome to the world of reality/contest television - they exploit EVERYONE for ratings/profit. That’s the point. It just took them this long to realize that transgender was a category they could exploit for ratings & profit.

Wow there’s just no pleasing some people...

I saw the headline and thought she had died! Holy crap, I think my heart just stopped for the amount of time it took me to read that article. Thank goodness it was short! Whew!

Actually, a friend of mine was at the VO session for Destiny. Dinklage really wanted to put more emotion into the voice, but the director scotched that. They wanted a ‘robotic’ voice. This is NOT Dinklage’s fault. Actors get screwed all the time by bad directing. Honestly, I’ll bet that Dinklage is glad to get away…

The 3D stripes make sense in a practical sense, but for a film production they create an additional issue to consider when lighting a scene. I’m a bit surprised that they didn't use some sort of dummy substitute that didn't reflect like that but otherwise looked like the same material. Cause, I bet you $100, you'll…

Yeah. All 34 seconds showed up in my FB feed, immediately.

i’m really happy i didn’t buy that dumb fight

From a design standpoint, yeah, the stripes aren’t good-looking at all. That said, from a practical standpoint, they make perfect sense. Ghost busting is not always going to occur in optimal viewing conditions. You will want something that clearly marks that you are a human being in situations of poor visibility. And…

Pretty sure posting Cinci chili on GM is a banable offense.

Shhh. No one tell him that Whistler is actually 90 miles from Vancouver.

Jokes about "White's Castle" aside, I actually really enjoy their food.

IIRC, there have been cases of actual undercover agents posing as homebuyers to ferret out unequal treatment.

As an old, I distinctly remember my parents selling their house in the 70s and the neighbors pointing out that they had an "understanding" in the neighborhood that they wouldn't sell to black people. "Screw them," my dad said. "Black people's money is as green as whites and this place is going to the highest offer."

Vernon

“I always thought of myself as a brave lady, but the town - if you can call it that - of Colfax managed to pull out that last little bit of scared little girl out of me, tugging at my otherwise rock-solid composure like idle hands around a loose sweater thread.

In my naiveté, I thought I would stroll around Colfax…

Oh my god, there really is a Starbucks. I mean, not that Starbucks saves all or anything, but knowing there’s a fucking Starbucks really changes the picture the author has painted of this town. Good lord.

it wasn’t France’s fault they got screwed by a Belgian ref who let Germany circumvent their defense...

Ignance. Not even ignorance, we’re beyond that here. Ignance. And lots and lots of hate.

Yep!

As an American Civil War nerd, there is no facial hair like Civil War facial hair. Burnside and his magnificent muttonchops are just the best-known example.