You weren't totally wrong. Muslim society was shattered by the Mongol conquest — apparently they "honored" the last Caliph with the bloodless execution of being stuffed in a sack and dragged behind a running horse until he stopped moving — and the leader of ISIS was invoking the myth of the pre-Mongol "golden age of…

You've got this way off. Salafism, the crazy minority sect that dominates the Saudi government and unleashes its moral police to terrorize the mainline Arabian Sunnis who dare defy it, is only about 150 years old. Call it a reaction to European imperialism and the collapse of the Ottomon Empire if you want, but…

"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” (1 Sam 15:2-3)"

You're sounding unusually lucid today, GH!

Hate to break it to you, but most people — white or black — know very little about Sojourner Truth and what they do know isn't likely to include that particular incident (I actually had heard the story, but only because I'm the sort of weirdo who actively seeks out such things). By your own numbers, you just…

Hey, he hasn't gotten to that episode yet! Technically your very existence is a spoiler.

It's not as fun as it sounds.

Snake has a dad?

They've also been known to swell slightly during sex!

No, Han has a pretty clear character arc, it's just that a lot of it is implied rather than shown. He starts the movie bitter and desperate because Jabba has him backed into a corner. He sees Luke and Obi-Wan as just a couple of rubes he can fleece for the money he needs and doesn't start taking their quest remotely…

My favorite part of Wookiepedia is their insistence on using the past tense no matter how silly it sounds. Poor cats, they really did go "meow" sometimes. I wonder what happened to them.

You are such a little shit bird, you know that? I wrote a whole goddamn essay trying to get through to you and you don't even have the decency to engage with it. All you can do bitch about a half-forgotten injustice committed more than a century ago involving a bunch of people who are all long dead.. Why don't you set…

Actually, women are a minority in several countries, at least among the younger generations. China, India, and a number of smaller countries like Vietnam have tens of millions of "missing women" thanks to widespread abortion and infanticide of girls (despite what our idiot friend might say about women never being…

Yeah I'm not sure you're going to get many converts on this one. Although, I must admit combining the urethra, genitals, and anus into a single orifice is awfully efficient

Yeah, we had comments, but the old system was a little primitive. Instead of permanent accounts we had to type in our name every time and there were no avatars. And instead of typing in a little comment window, we had to go to a free flowing stream by the light of a new moon and find a smooth, soft stone that was…

The Game of Thrones board game is pretty good as well. Sort of like Risk if Risk weren't terrible.

It's OK, I've been on this site since like 2006 and I still don't know who any of you people are.

I don't know, but if it's anything like the role playing game, it'll be an ill-conceived mess where certain abilities are absurdly strong while others are absurdly weak and a few don't seem to do anything at all. (incidental note for weirdo superfans: that slim little rulebook had some of the most concrete setting…

To be fair to the Disqus people, they don't really seem to understand human interaction well enough to get why these might be issues.

That's a good question, but I'm not sure anything can at this point. The actors really just don't seem to give a shit about The Simpsons. On the other hand, Castelleneta did great work as the Robot Devil during the same era when he was completely phoning it in as Homer, so maybe if you trick them into thinking they're…