More to the point, most of these aren't really runny noses, just an assumption that someone else recovering from cancer means there's a risk your nose might get runny as a consequence. The distinction between a "War on Men" and a "War on Inequality" is the most salient point in this article. Suddenly realizing your…

The first season finale is a four-parter. I *liked* the show before that, but holy balls it didn't become a great show until the end of the first season.

I was in a production of The Rover by Aphra Behn (a female playwright, no less). That's...a crazy play with all kinds of HI-LARIOUS failed rape attempts, including a sequence where a the lead's fiance, disguised as a prostitute, is captured and locked in a closet while the men fight over which one gets to go first.

I'm kind of surprised they're showing the denizens of District 11 picking cotton by hand.

I know many a lady that wouldn't mind such an exile.

When I look into Shakespeare or any Elizabethan/Jacobean drama with students or other actors, I'm often struck by the way rape is handled. It seems to have been an incredibly common and pervasive threat in societies without much policing and where women aren't really considered fully people - so much so that there are…

Yeah this. This is true even in games where choices DO effect the plot, it's just, you know, more obvious.

It's not that they're "trying to find some kind of deep meaning in this game" - it's that, when the choices don't ultimately effect the storyline, but the player is confronted with choices to make about a character, what Kirk and Sparky are describing is the only thing you get. In other games, where your choices DO…

"(but not lesbians)"

Let Joe Johnston have his Boba Fett movie, already.

Efficiency.

"...and yet, they won't recognize a situation where they simply have no data, one way or the other."

Yeah "thousands of generations" almost seems to old for there to have been droids. I'd love to see the flashbacks on that one...

No. The author of this piece described it as "inexplicable" so I'm trying to work it back around to "explicable."

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"As amusing as it is to imagine humans constantly doing bad impressions of each other — and let's be honest, this is humans we're talking about, the impressions will be bad — that actually might not be the best comparison."

Saint Nicholas was Greek. So.

I love the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Everything I read about it says that it is neither marsupial nor placental, but rather Meridiolestida. Nothing says what that means.

"When my sister was six years old, she was attacked, by three Muggle boys. They'd seen her practicing magic, spying through the back garden hedge: She was a kid, she couldn't control it, no witch or wizard can at that age. What they saw, scared them, I expect. They forced their way through the hedge, and when she…