pleasepleasepleaseplease don't fuck Childhood's End up.

The petition, which has raised more than 40,000 signatures, is available here and coincides with the fact that October is Autism Awareness Month.

I'd be all for this if I trusted Disney to handle the topic with any sensitivity.

As someone with special needs, I can tell you that I would really not have liked to have a special needs princess. That stuff was escapism for me, so why would I want to see someone like myself?

Gregory House... a selfish, misanthropic genius who is still controlled by self-destructive impulses.

He's a piece of trash, no doubt, but I'll go with my first impulse on this one and say Case from Neuromancer. Anyone more heroic, and the book might not have worked at all. When a character so jaded and generally screwed up finally gets horrified/pushed into action by something, it has a strong effect on the story.

An obvious choice: "When Jimmy McNulty ain't policing, he's a picture postcard of a drunken self-destructive fuck-up. And when he IS policing, he's pretty much the same motherfucker but on a good case, that's as close as the man comes to being right." (*sniff) I miss The Wire.

FYI this is Professor Kenneth "Swaggy" Goldsmith

I'm already a P.H.D of it! (And it will still get you more jobs than a Philosophy degree)

i would love to hear...not like tawdry tales, but how pro dommes end up becoming pros, what it entails, etc? if you ever wrote something, or if you have, i would love to read it!

It doesn't involve the formality of a planned kinky scene with a clear beginning and a definite end. It's just rough and raw: it's the thrill of grabbing your partner, manhandling them, shoving them around, slapping them, bending them to your will. I have a hunger for this type of play. It has an unfiltered, primal…

Based on my consumption of pizza, my team would be me and one other person... or me and morning-cold-pizza-for-breakfast me.

how many abortion clinics have really been bombed? Like 2? Under 10 i'm sure

I detest the use of women, women's rights and feminism to further a colonialist agenda. And it's not just Bill Maher, it's a lot of people and governments in the West. They couldn't give a shit when it's women under their nose that are suffering, but if it's a woman suffering at the hands of a Muslim (or another…

How many of those bombings are in Tehran? Islamic terrorism, like most terrorism, is the result of socio-political issues, not Islam itself. A large part of the domestic terrorism in the US is in the name of Christianity, abortion bombings and the KKK being prime examples. But we're a pretty stable country and that…

What you just outlined is that Islam is in the early developmental stages common with all Abrahamic religions. That's all.

"If you disagree, name one country where people can live freely under Islam."

It took me until about 30 or 32 until I learned to say "I'm so sorry that you're going through this. Is there anything I can do?" Worked wonders; that's all she was looking for.

There is not one homogenous Arabic or Islamic culture.

Yes and no. If someone is a chronic complainer who rarely takes action and is dragging others down, then yes, this is good advice.