Occam's razor and all that. It seems unreasonable to ask for such an overwhelming burden of evidence for these same-sex union ceremonies being sexual in nature, when similar ceremonies for heterosexual couples likely didn't explicitly mention sex either. At a certain point, it starts to look like the skeptics just…

That's an interesting question. (Not an expert here). But I guess it would be rooted in the period when the Hebrew Bible originated, so long predating Christianity.

Yes, exactly. Salmon were once ridiculously abundant along the Pacific coast so there was no need to move elsewhere.

As I recall, I've already read quite a few studies showing that children of gay parents are a) as well-adjusted as their peers, and b) no more or less likely to be homosexual than their peers. I don't have the citation offhand but the peer-reviewed literature is out there.

Of course we're still watching it. The show excels at what it's trying to do, which is "Be as ridiculous as possible week after week" and I love it.

I'm pretty sure they do it on purpose. The writers clearly are aiming for "as ridiculous as possible" and consistently achieve their goal. I enjoy that fact.

It is nothing like Twilight. True Blood is an (intentionally) cheesy camp-fest that is mostly played for laughs.

Yeah, I feel like the cheese has always been the only reason to watch this show. And I think the "campiness" is 100% intentional. This year there will be a new showrunner, since Alan Ball left, so it will be interesting to see if this season is different.

Westeros, as depicted in the show, really doesn't seem to be analogous with fifteenth-century Europe. If anything, the society depicted has more in common with the early medieval period. There weren't a lot of Moors in Northwestern Europe during the "Dark Ages" although, as you said, there were plenty in the south of…

If anything, the civilizations of Essos have been depicted as more sophisticated and less barbaric than Westeros, where Dany's from. To say that she's "freeing the savages" is stretching it. She is freeing the slaves of Essos for the selfish purpose of building an army; she's merely justifying it by calling it…

It's not nearly identical. It has some of the same design elements but the Android version is 1000% fuglier.

Actually, wasn't it "originally slated" for the launch window? Then it got pushed back to "Spring", then "Summer", and now December 2013??? What is Nintendo thinking?

Agreed. I wish I could demand a refund for my Wii U. The slipping release dates for supposed "launch" titles is also ridiculous. Wii Fit U is going to be released a full year later than expected?? What the hell.

iOS doesn't need stability improvements. It's as stable as it's possible for a smartphone OS to be, imo.

Except it doesn't look "exactly like" Google's design language. It looks like a design language that is from the same era (the early 2010s) and is therefore (unsurprisingly) hitting many of the same cues. It's like saying "Oh look, Mazda is copying Honda again." All car manufacturers update their design language over…

Lol you don't even know the specs or price. What's sad is anti-Apple trolls.

It's worth noting how incredibly unusual it is that it's raining in San Francisco in June. In other words, god is making an extra-special effort to rain on Apple's parade.

Terrorist attacks are rare and claim an infinitesimally small number of lives compared with our inadequate healthcare system, poor gun control laws, terrible mental health system, and poverty-driven crime. Yet we're not willing to change anything to fix these much larger problems. So why, again, are we willing to…

I would secretly love it if they failed to announce new retina MBPs tomorrow since I just bought one in early March. (I'm selfish that way.)

Doing something illegal is not always the same as doing something wrong, nor is doing something legal the same as doing something right.