Sony is a lot of companies. Sony Music is a very different company from Sony Electronics, for instance. Also, boycotting Sony as a whole is vaguely impossible if you buy anything electronic.

C’mon, I like you a lot, but this is kinda crappy. Japan is not some giant monolithic pro-rape culture. Most Japanese I know really dislike the otaku culture around it, and abhor the chikan types.

I’m reading my way through the World of Ice and Fire, and all though the history of the Targaryen kings, I just kept thinking about how there are four or five different time periods that would have made just as fascinating a setting for a series of novels as this one. Which for me is probably the only reason why I’m…