It made me think of Evolution's Darling. A so so book, but I loved the idea that AIs are "evolution's darlings" because they're the only beings that can evolve within a single (sometimes very, very long) lifetime.

A very similar measure is a ballot question in Massachusetts this year, too. If you're in MA, you still have a couple more days of early voting! You can look up times and locations here:

In general, I agree with you, but there are some things that get categorized as "political beliefs" that seem, to me anyways, to be inextricably linked to bigotry or other friendship deal breakers. So, while I have Republican friends, I'd be very uncomfortable being close friends with someone who insisted that Obama…

We read that in a "survival" unit, along with My Side of the Mountain, Incident at Hawk's Hill, and Slake's Limbo. Those last two were two of the worst books I've ever read, but I liked My Side of the Mountain.

I know - I thought that the problem with Snyder was that *all* he has is aesthetic. His stuff is pretty, but that's all they manage to be.

Hunts with an eagle that she raised herself.

That's a pretty radical reading of the text (and somewhat telling, really).

I understand that there's debate about this, but from my viewpoint pretending to be neutral, and in so doing ignoring important facts lends credibility to a candidate who in no way deserves it, and allows people to pretend that Clinton's minor scandals are the equivalent of Trump's shit-storm. I think journalists act…

That's what drives me crazy about all these "there's no good choices" people. There are no perfect choices, sure. There are, however, some choices that are objectively far, far better than other choices.

You can have opinions and still make good satire. In fact, you have to have some message you're trying to convey in order to make good satire. I don't think she's overly partisan, but that's a matter of opinion. Still, her political leanings don't cancel out her ability as a satirist - they just inform the…

I had to look up that rhyme for the "five for silver, six for gold", and it's a lot more ominous once you know the next line is "seven for a secret never to be told".

Nah, if she'd said "no thanks, I don't like chocolate", that'd be monstrous. Since she accepted the candy and gave it to me, she's just a good sister :)

My sister doesn't like chocolate, so I'd always get all of her rejected chocolate candy - twice the candy for me!

I was with you on all of those except Sweet Tarts. Substitute Smarties (or conversation hearts) and I'm back on board.

Are dots the sort of tasteless hard candies that are stuck to a sheet of paper, and you end up eating sort of a lot of paper? They seemed like an awesome idea, so I tried to like them for a while. I think that naivety is the only reason that candy continues to exist - new generations of kids tricking themselves into…

We almost never get any trick or treaters, so if one does come by we give them a couple heaping handfuls of candy.

savetheday.vote did a video based on that joke. That Britain needs us to do something even stupider than Brexit to re-take our rightful place as the country they can look down on as bumbling idiots.

They said they wanted a *working* mic. Is Trump brand anything functional?

Me too! I hadn't realized my state had early voting, but it was super easy, and I'm so relieved not to have to deal with crowds on the 8th. It's nice to have that done with. Anyone else who's in MA, go do it between now and the 4th!

Well, that trash heap character on Fraggle Rock had arms and hands, right? So, she could've probably written. She seemed pretty well spoken, though.