Off-topic hijack. When are we getting the best books of the year (or best books staff read this year). Which also generates loads of excellent recommendations in the comments. It's almost Christmas. How am I supposed to know what to ask for and buy with all the gift cards I'm about to receive. I bought and read Cloud…

Off-topic hijack. When are we getting the best books of the year (or best books staff read this year). Which also generates loads of excellent recommendations in the comments. It's almost Christmas. How am I supposed to know what to ask for and buy with all the gift cards I'm about to receive. I bought and read Cloud…

Objectivism=/=objective thinking. It's just a name for her bullshit philosophy that SHE made up. She's NOT taking a stand against Solipsism, which is what you're doing. There has never been a philosophy called Objectivism that takes the position you describe. You're doing the equivalent of getting upset at someone…

Objectivism=/=objective thinking. It's just a name for her bullshit philosophy that SHE made up. She's NOT taking a stand against Solipsism, which is what you're doing. There has never been a philosophy called Objectivism that takes the position you describe. You're doing the equivalent of getting upset at someone…

I don't think P&R has made a reference to Rand, and so I believe Ron is just a libertarian, which are often annoying in real life, but not nearly as much as an honest to god objectivist. It's one thing to think that government is generally inefficient, bureaucratic, wasteful, and that most services it provides should…

I don't think P&R has made a reference to Rand, and so I believe Ron is just a libertarian, which are often annoying in real life, but not nearly as much as an honest to god objectivist. It's one thing to think that government is generally inefficient, bureaucratic, wasteful, and that most services it provides should…

Am I the only one who refers to it as the Secret of the Ooze?

Am I the only one who refers to it as the Secret of the Ooze?

Just because we're bereaved doesn't make us SAPS!!

Just because we're bereaved doesn't make us SAPS!!

These videos get very few comments (especially as the contest has gone along), but all the featured entries have really been quite good. I'm pretty sure that time travel isn't a parameter, but who doesn't like time travel.

These videos get very few comments (especially as the contest has gone along), but all the featured entries have really been quite good. I'm pretty sure that time travel isn't a parameter, but who doesn't like time travel.

CNN might sue them for stealing the idea from their news coverage.

CNN might sue them for stealing the idea from their news coverage.

I disagree with the two points above me. I find reading a book to be far more diminished by seeing the visual adaptation first (tv or movie). I browbeat my wife for a month to read the first book of Game of Thrones instead of us watching the show right away (we don't have HBO, so this wasn't that hard). Basically,…

I disagree with the two points above me. I find reading a book to be far more diminished by seeing the visual adaptation first (tv or movie). I browbeat my wife for a month to read the first book of Game of Thrones instead of us watching the show right away (we don't have HBO, so this wasn't that hard). Basically,…

Um, so Greg Daniels watched Season 2 of Treme, took strong note of Antoine's storyline, and then said to himself, "you know, that's a whole show right there."

Um, so Greg Daniels watched Season 2 of Treme, took strong note of Antoine's storyline, and then said to himself, "you know, that's a whole show right there."

"Perd, we strongly believe in teaching, and practicing, abstinence."

"Perd, we strongly believe in teaching, and practicing, abstinence."