Internet racists couldn't get past the fact that a black girl was cast to play a character more or less explicitly described as black - they complained that they were "tricked" into caring about a black girl. Could you imagine asking them to believe that a biracial actor was a heartthrob? Don't you know that "White"…

Right, like I said, it's not there for the eucharist, but seeing the word gave me pause. #catholicschool

Consubstantiation is...in the missal now? But not for the eucharist. Confusion.

There was never a point in our (recent) evolutionary history when sex did not make babies, or when babies were made by something that wasn't sex. It probably never got "figured out" - it just was.

"The description defies parody. $100,000 of taxpayer money is going to help develop a video game about a female alien sent to earth to rescue her own planet. [...] Although it is the smorgasbord of politically correct elements that makes this project entertaining to write about, the bottom line is that the government…

Not just novels and graphic novels - dude, theater is FULL of scifi these days. Mac Rogers' Honeycomb Trilogy is the best science fiction I've experienced in years HANDS DOWN.

This makes me miss Caprica even more.

Love the really down white dude. "That brotha...!"

There's also this: "When Crystal, a Cuban American daughter of a Marielito family and a masculine-identified woman, shared her business vision with Ivette, she knew exactly what she wanted to call it. She could not imagine naming her masculine clothing line for female and transgender bodies anything but Marimacho, the…

It's longer than the US has been in the US.

Anyone familiar enough with these scientists' work to have some thoughts on where this is going?

Carry on.

Ahem. Stegosaurus was an herbivore.

"...the poor bastards who had the misfortune to be born before Jesus wiped away original sin…"

There's also the possibility that if God is growing with the cosmos, then "perfect" is an ever evolving concept that God remains at the apex of - thus, as God and the cosmos improve, so does the bar, and with the bar everything else.

Yeah, but that's not the discussion being had.

This is pretty much the most important point. The second most important point is that taxes belong to the government and sorry that sometimes democracy means you lose the government contest.

This is no different than most iconic pop-culture characters. There's three different Sherlock Holmes franchises currently running - that's *currently.*

Yeah. I was gonna say: Spanish horror films tend not to make you choose.

All of these, if I'm remembering my (admittedly probably biased) theology classes correctly, are commonly thought to be reasons why the Hellenistic religions were replaced - next to what they had, the certainty and conviction that Christianity seemed to garner as a world-wide force seemed attractive.