Steve Pinker challenges the abortion/crime comparison in The Better Angels of Our Nature, saying that you would expect, based on that theory, that the slackening of crime rates in the 1990s would have started with the younger kids, but it didn't, the drop in crime started among the generation that predated Roe.

Steve Pinker challenges the abortion/crime comparison in The Better Angels of Our Nature, saying that you would expect, based on that theory, that the slackening of crime rates in the 1990s would have started with the younger kids, but it didn't, the drop in crime started among the generation that predated Roe.

His performance in "The Doomsday Machine" is one of the original Star Trek's best guest roles.

His performance in "The Doomsday Machine" is one of the original Star Trek's best guest roles.

You're assuming that every decision made by the writers had the worst possible intentions behind it

You're assuming that every decision made by the writers had the worst possible intentions behind it

First, why is it so important that you get to call them bad writers? What intellectual benefit is reaped from putting a writer in the "good" or "bad" box?

First, why is it so important that you get to call them bad writers? What intellectual benefit is reaped from putting a writer in the "good" or "bad" box?

Everything has flaws.  I have flaws.  That's not an excuse for this show being one of the most offensive and badly-written things I've ever seen.  There have been many attempts at handling gay teens on TV; some better than others.  This show itself did a pretty good job with Kurt.  But he's male (and his story was…

Everything has flaws.  I have flaws.  That's not an excuse for this show being one of the most offensive and badly-written things I've ever seen.  There have been many attempts at handling gay teens on TV; some better than others.  This show itself did a pretty good job with Kurt.  But he's male (and his story was…

The artists are the people who make the art.  And, in the case of this particular art, go around preening about how progressive and wonderful they are while producing offensive drivel.  Brad Falchuk went so far as to tweet about how "we just make TV" in response to all the criticism of IKAG, after saying on numerous…

The artists are the people who make the art.  And, in the case of this particular art, go around preening about how progressive and wonderful they are while producing offensive drivel.  Brad Falchuk went so far as to tweet about how "we just make TV" in response to all the criticism of IKAG, after saying on numerous…

I've watched every episode of the show, and follow the word around it quite closely (though I dearly wish I could stop doing that).  I'm qualified to judge the people who create it.  And I laid out why the story is bad.  The writers objectively don't know what they're doing.  They can't keep characters and plots…

I've watched every episode of the show, and follow the word around it quite closely (though I dearly wish I could stop doing that).  I'm qualified to judge the people who create it.  And I laid out why the story is bad.  The writers objectively don't know what they're doing.  They can't keep characters and plots…

Where are you getting this? I'm not saying this is the story they meant to tell. This is the story they told because they're not very good writers. They don't understand what Finn did was outing, and they naturally gravitate to writing stories about male characters telling female characters what to do (with Finn,…

Where are you getting this? I'm not saying this is the story they meant to tell. This is the story they told because they're not very good writers. They don't understand what Finn did was outing, and they naturally gravitate to writing stories about male characters telling female characters what to do (with Finn,…

He never once threatens to change his story or go back and get her suspended.

He never once threatens to change his story or go back and get her suspended.

Finn outed her at school.  And his lying about what happened was to make him look noble, because he is apparently the only one who understands what's going on.  The fact that everyone else is lining up to punish her for slapping the guy that outed her, when they know exactly what happened and have excused far worse…

Finn outed her at school.  And his lying about what happened was to make him look noble, because he is apparently the only one who understands what's going on.  The fact that everyone else is lining up to punish her for slapping the guy that outed her, when they know exactly what happened and have excused far worse…