Slightly better?

In (partial) defense of Graves, he was referring to the whole scene, including the (now forgotten, but overall excellent) first 3/4 of the scene where Tywin lectures Tommen. If you read Graves's article, the reasons he gives for calling that his favorite scene all have to do with Dance and Heady's performances in the…

The vast majority of rapes are not comitted by strangers assaulting women on "the street alone at night." They are committed by friends/acquaintances who thought they were getting some action, were told "no," and decided they didn't like that answer. Please keep that in mind. The typical experience of sexual assault…

This is my concern, too. Is it possible for a rapist to do things that would redeem himself? Sure, I guess, as much as anyone can redeem themselves for any immoral act. But when this act is put in the middle of a narrative redemption arc, it starts to send the message that "sure, rape is bad, but it's not THAT bad."…

I remember hearing that you can pickpocket members of the Thieves Guild, and they are just amused if they catch you. So that's a good place to level up.

Uncanting?

That rule has been written. http://xkcd.com/314/

This has always confused me, too. Is he independently wealthy? Or are sales of "Cyborg Pride" Tshirts really that profitable?

Man, why can't Aaron Diaz write Dresden Codak faster? Every page of this comic is some combination of hilarious, beautiful, and mind-bending, but he publishes at a rate of one page every two months or so. I mean, this Dark Science arc is pretty damn cool 30 pages in, but he started it FOUR YEARS AGO. More please!

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OMG SPACEBALLS!

This article is confusing.

I was already fed up with heroes by the time the Season One finale roled around, and that episode was just the nail in the coffin. The show was always relentlessly anti-climactic. It made a point of always building to a cliffhanger at the end of every episode and then just backing away from it when the next episode…

How does he keep up with the news like that?

Is there a contest to never have to see this movie?

I think you're overestimating it. Not to say that it isn't a factor, but I seriously doubt that your average social conservative is opposed to gay marriage on the grounds that it upsets power and gender dynamics. There is a substantial body of scientific work that suggests that all that is needed to trigger a moral…

The power dynamics issues you mention both deal with parent-child incest. And I agree that there are complicated power dynamics there that make for an important disanalogy. That's why my examples were all given in terms of sibling incest

Fair point. "No one" is an exaggeration. I meant that the overwhelming majority of those opposed to homosexuality in contemporary America are not seriously suggesting this.

For the sake of the thought experiment. It's obviously not the case that all actual incestuous relationships are going to have this feature.

No one is suggesting jailing homosexuals, either. The more relevant comparison would be: What if the Sibling Incest Society [note: that's probably not a real thing] got together and demanded that their love be treated equally, and that the state both permit and sanction (with the full range of legal benefits) marriage…