I know ultra-Orthodox Jews who don't wear seatbelts OR vaccinate because "Hashem and Torah protect us". Makes me want to slap them upside the head with a copy of Eli Wiesel's Night until whatever bits of brain are rattling around in their skulls get shocked into activity.

Oh, for fark's sake! Every time you slap down the anti-vacc crazies they mutate and pop up again.

Oh gods. It's these giant flea-brained goat-shaggers again.

The only reason diamonds are so expensive is marketing and price-fixing by cartels. Good for Kal-El!

Sorry, I'm not familiar with Fred Willard.

If we sucked we'd be good for something.

But the robot requires all sorts of engineering to produce. You can mass produce children with unskilled labor and tools you probably have lying around the house already.

ALL Registered breeds have been bred for looks to the detriment of their health. Every. Single. Damned. One.

We'd have healthier, happier dogs for one thing.

Absolutely. Once he decided it wasn't a Bad Thing and stopped barking at it, it would become an expensive mechanical bone.

The best thing for a dog to play with is another dog or a child. They are already highly-optimized, adaptive, fault-tolerant playmates.

Remember that old term "Crime Against Nature"?

Depends which version of the myth you go for. In some (cf. World War Z) anything from lions to mold spores which bites a zombie dies or turns into one. In others this is not the case.

Speak for yourself. Every fool is allowed to. The evidence is clear. Science is reviled in the media. It has to fight a constant battle to avoid being drowned by superstition in education. The Republican Party has taken an official line advocating hatred and suspicion of Science and scientists. It is treated as magic…

"A large number" is irrelevant here. We're talking about the effects of eliminating all cats. We see evidence of what happens when you eliminate cats. Rodent populations skyrocket regardless of how many couch-potato moggies are around. And even many completely indoor cats kill rodents. Almost all older buildings have…

Which means there's even less reason to contain and preserve. And unlike rabies, which eventually kills the victim, a zombie can continue to infect others indefinitely.

Stargate I'll grant you. Buffy not so much

I'd say it's more analogous to rabies.

What we're talking about here is disbelief suspended by the neck until dead, dead, dead.

A lame action movie with a few decent CGI moments gets turned into a "milk it 'til it's dry TV series. And people wonder if it will be any good.