What did you guys in the audience do while they were waiting to fix it? Like, did you just sit there quietly in the dark, or did they try to distract you with a little improvised tap-dancing number or something?

Why hasn't Cirque du Soliel done something like that already?

Uh… just making a point about how more careful rhetoric can persuade people who might otherwise be turned off by the cause. If you read my post carefully, I state clearly that I don't think abortion should be illegal.

Great article! I kind of remember this happening (all of a sudden radio got really crappy just as I got to high school… thanks guys) but this is a great overview of the issue.

"his Blueberry-American best friend Skeeter"

Unfortunately, by "we" I meant "my older friends who were allowed to go to concerts by themselves." My high-school-freshman self was stuck home listening to it on the radio. On the plus side, that means I probably heard you(r indiscriminate shouting) on the radio :)

Fair point. Although I think those "moral grounds" for many average people in the movement may be a little deeper than "my religion told me so." Or at least the religion is co-opting an intuition that was already there. And the pro-choice movement is not reaching those average people by dismissing (and/or misstating)…

"I needed Reginald vel Johnson to tell me about Hammerman."

I think we should go ultra specific (and neutral) and call it pro-legal-abortion vs. anti-legal-abortion. Let's just really clarify what's actually at stake, in terms of government involvement. Like, the government can't magically make abortion not a thing that exists. Nor can it magically resolve the philosophical…

You don't have to be religious though. I've never liked the idea of abortion, and it comes from a philosophical and scientific perpsective, as well as my own experiences bearing children. That being said, like a whole bunch of other Americans who don't like the idea of abortion, I can separate the legal issue from the…

Haha! To be fair, I can totally see Obi-Wan hosting his own Mr. Rogers-like show, teaching kids at home the ways of the Force and also how crayons are made.

Oh man, that Highlander TV series. I watched it every day after school around the same time yet I somehow forget everything about it, except that the young protege character had that curly mullet that human beings apparently thought was a good idea for awhile there in the 80s and early 90s.

I kind of want Blues Clues to be held responsible for the trend of trying to get kids to talk the television which eventually got really, really lazy. I'm desperately trying to get my kid to forget that Blaze exists (although oddly enough, he always refuses to shout out things at the TV when he's supposed to, as if he…

See, the way you avoid this is to be the kid who reads the TV Guide cover to cover when it arrives each week. This also helps cement your status as one of the "cool" kids at school (<— no it does not).

I was going to say that I thought early Nickelodeon yoinked a lot of shows from YTV, but according to the ol' Googler, it was just You Can't Do That on Television, and it wasn't originally on YTV, but some other Canadian channel. (Also I don't know why I chose to use the verb "yoink" in that sentence, but I'm…

Hehe… well, we watch Vs. Arashi on the Japanese satellite channel in the US, which has a six-month delay, so his 15 minutes might very well be up in real time.

Sure, we in the West have had [lists three things in category X], but in Japan they have [lists one thing in category X]. Japan, why do you love X so much?

Wait, are you that guy? If so, I admire your work on the episode of Vs. Arashi I saw last week.

I will be the third No Code fan. While my favorite Pearl Jam album varies with my mood, it is often No Code. At those times, "Red Mosquito" is my favorite Pearl Jam song. Fin.

For example, I am 1 (one) year younger than you and I believe that I was at the bottom of that cliff.